Anti-Racist White Affinity Group

As conflict and fear escalate around us, heightened by the media, silence confronts us. White educators have a responsibility to navigate complex classroom, colleague, and parent dynamics. And yet, we cannot engage fully in this work without supportive places to reflect, practice, and confront how white supremacy culture operates within our personal and school contexts.
This two-day, in-person program will center collective dialogue, offering White educators the opportunity to reflect on and process how they are experiencing—emotionally and somatically—this rise in global, national, and local conflict. Participants will also consider the ways that white supremacy culture prevents us from breaking our silence and stepping into conflict with curiosity and humility. Participants will learn from one another through collective wisdom and will gain concrete strategies and frameworks to support their work moving forward.
Participants will have the opportunity to continue their collective work in an optional online cohort that will meet 3 times over the course of the fall semester. This cohort will also welcome new participants who are seeking community during this time. Please see options for registering for the in-person only program and for the in-person and online cohort experience in the program details below.
Questions we'll explore:

• How do we build community in our classroom spaces that will allow us to respond meaningfully to conflict?
• How can we get better at supporting ourselves and our communities in times of conflict?
• How do we move forward when we feel overwhelmed by the intensity of conflict?

Our offering:

• A supportive community to process our own stories and experiences as well as strategies to explore complexities in our own communities
• Opportunities to practice breaking habits of silence
• Frameworks for navigating conflict (somatic and dynamic strategies to help you engage your full self in complex moments of conflict)

This Summer Institute is for white-identifying educators who are committed to disrupting white supremacy culture through compassion, curiosity, and community.

CANCELLATION POLICY
Life happens. We understand that there will be times when you cannot attend a workshop that you have registered and paid for.

Registration may be transferred to a different person up to 7 days before a session. However refunds will not be given, and a session missed for any reason will not be refunded.

Below we have outlined our cancellation and refund policy, which we have in place to ensure the most accurate numbers when we secure well in advance locations, catering, and facilitators. Thank you for understanding.

For our ongoing programs or one-day intensives, refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 22 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 21 days or less prior to the first day of a workshop. A missed session that is part of an ongoing program is non-refundable and non-transferrable. For our summer institutes refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 30 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 29 days or less prior to the first day of a summer institute.

Please contact us by email as soon as you know you cannot attend a workshop. This will allow us time to contact our waitlist and hopefully fill your spot.

Host or Publisher California Teacher Development Collaborative