On Being White & Other: Unlearning and exploration for colonized white ethnic minorities
This closed group of 8-10 people is for white/passing ethnic minorities who are part of diasporas or homelands that were colonized, or come from a colonized culture. This group is an opportunity to explore our own personal and collective histories of colonization, to bring our stories of culture, ethnicity and ancestors with the intention to find a sense of rootedness. The 8 sessions will invite us to stay with the nuanced duality of holding power and privilege as white/passing/presenting people, as well as the lived experience of cultural trauma and violence. This held space will challenge us to work towards a more robust anti-racist praxis through making conscious and disrupting our own complicity and racism.
On Being White & Other was originally co-developed and facilitated by Lucia Sarmiento and Sage M Stephanou for the Radical Therapist Network.
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“What an amazing group, Lucia and Sage were great facilitators, who created the safest of spaces to learn in. Their gentle challenging was thought provoking and encouraged deeper thought processes to happen within and outside the group space, with time to come back and reflect as needed.”
- Di (Psychotherapeutic Counsellor)
“This is possibly the most important training I have ever done. I have learned so much more about myself; about my whiteness and how without addressing this, I cannot practice fully ethically and can harm the clients self actualisation. I have also learned how my own colonized ancestry shapes me, lifts me and scars me all at once and how to go back to this to gain tools for self care and anti-racist practice.”
- Elane (Therapist)
“An expertly facilitated and guided space within which to explore the personal within a collective frame in order to find new ways of being. Decolonial in the truest sense of the word; the course will open you to new/old/forgotten ways of being and ways of knowing. And then it will link such processes to commitments to anti-racist practice in an intelligent way.”
- Olivia (Dance Movement Psychotherapist)