+// Council Dates: June 11-July 30 // 8 x 90 min sessions, Thursdays 330pm PST
+// Organizer: Charlene Parker // Co-Facilitated + Guest Contributors
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The very systems that we say we want to change and break our hearts, live inside of us.
It's not enough to be against racism if we aren't actually doing the work. This is a call and an opportunity for us to do the inner work required to develop and sustain solidarity. This circling space is not a substitute for other action-oriented solidarity work, but rather a space to get into right relationship with our inner architecture, such that we can be trustable leaders and allies.
Even if we weren't living in an oppressive police state— this would be WORTHY work. Through the lens of oppression and racism — it's an opportunity to see our unconscious and implicit bias. An opportunity to get over ourselves and our bullshit. This is what makes a good leader. It's this kind of inner work that has you be able to serve with integrity. This is both personal and political. It's for the world you want to see. It's for our BIPOC family. It's for your children. And it's for you, to trust yourself and become more self-aware in all that you do.
This is what's needed to begin to dismantle the unconscious oppressive tendencies inside ourselves and rise up in service to the whole.
This type of work asks for your devotion. It's a lifetime of unlearning, healing, tending, questioning, fumbling. It can be disorienting and messy. And that's why we're coming together. So we can be held in this work. Learn from each other. Stay accountable. Stop pretending just because we love all beings as one that we are not playing out unconscious behaviors that maintain the status quo.
Let's dive in, get a little dirty, and become more resilient, integral, supportive allies to life.
This is for those who don't identify as racist and really fucking care — but are aware that by simply growing up with the privileges you did, there is much you don't know and may be hidden beyond your conscious awareness.
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor leads readers through a journey of understanding their white privilege and participation in white supremacy, so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on black, indigenous and people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
Unlearning America's Birth.
From Rachel: Here we are. You and I, in solidarity with thousands of others, who have roared a collective cry of "Enough!". Over the next 30 days, together, we will take action. The work we will be doing is going to lay brick after brick - becoming a road to the change this country is so desperately gasping for.