Understanding systems of oppression to better access leverage points for personal and collective liberation.
How to decolonize your mind, your relationships, and your organizations.
Decolonize minds, movements, and collectives to increase effectiveness.
Somatic conditioning and trauma healing.
A comprehensive look at the perspective of collaborative hierarchy attenuation regenerative leadership as a means to counter oppression.
Understanding systems of oppression unpacking social justice theories to better access liminal spaces and leverage points for personal and collective liberation.
Defining social justice terms and concepts: Intersectionality, impact versus intent, opinion versus academic development of social justice narrative, institutionalized and internalized forms of oppression, etc.
Unpacking context of intersectionality (Racism, Sexism, Ableism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Transphobia), hegemony, institutional racism, and white cis-patriarchial heteronormative supremacy, legitimizing the authority of the normative and power.
Trauma stewardship as a radical act of social change.
Using the lens of trauma to unpack systems of oppression.
How trauma factors into the perpetuation of oppression: trauma as a barrier to engagement, dialectic deficiencies from subversive triggers (white fragility), oppressed becomes oppressor, (limited emotional intelligence and social capacity’s role in creating far-right thinking), microaggressions and intergenerational transmission: the accumulation of trauma on lowering self-determination.
Somatic inquiry into power and understanding modes of power: social power, power over/under, power with and power from within.
Trauma, a catalyst for resilience: post-traumatic growth.
Integrating trauma recovery methods and practices to co-create effective intersectional movements.
Utilizing spiritual technologies for the sake of countering oppression reclaiming its appropriation as a form of spiritual bypass.
A focus on ancestral healing practices.
Two eyes seeing form of integrating western healing practices with indigenous ways of knowing to co-create more effective transformative programs.
The role in creating larger models of systems theory assessments in assisting in a comprehensive analysis of how oppression is woven and unwoven in individuals and collectives.
Genograms and tracking intergenerational patterns, Bronfenbrenner model, social dominance theory and testing, Bowens nuclear systems theory and inventory.
Evaluation methods for multicultural competence.
Creating content for multiple learning styles to make information receptive to a diversity of minds.
Evaluative methods for determining multicultural competence, hierarchy attenuating and enhancing dispositions, and stress response patterns in people and groups such as social dominance orientation.
Bowens nuclear systems theory: self-differentiation inventory, Bronfenbrenner's model, genograms intergenerational pattern tracking, and multi-cultural competency assessments, burnout assessments, and more.
How the legitimization of authority and identity formation plays a role in countering or perpetuating oppression: medical-industrial complex classifying defect to necessitating cure, how integration is not assimilation development of psychologically recognized racial and integrated models (other social locations) of identity formation stages and phases.
How to be an ally and proper way to engage in discussions on the topic without committing the classic faux pas of re-traumatization. Interactive practice to familiarize participants with having anti-oppressive dialogues. Microaggressions and theater of the oppressed.
Resources to meet multiple learning styles and demographics:
Regenerative leadership models of organizing and collaborative decision making
Diversity’s role in increasing positive fiscal outlooks and innovative approaches in businesses
Tools for marginalized communities to gain empowerment. Tools for privileged allies in countering oppression
Utilizing comics, games and exercises, lectures, journaling, meditation and more to meet multiple learning styles.
Exercises and practice to gain fluency: The power shuffle/step forward step back etc.
Who should take this course?
This course is great for both beginners and advanced scholars
Diversity and Inclusion is not just the focus of my Master’s degree and the majority of my vocational experience, it is also my mother’s specialty. I both grew up in this field and trained rigorously. My Masters is in Social Change, as a result I am adept at Organizational Development as a diversity, inclusion, equity and sustainability...