Resilient Roots:
How to Move Beyond Perfectionism, Shame and Overwhelm as a White Ally
Thursday, December 15
5:30 - 7:00 pm PST
online | free
Do you care deeply about the work towards racial, social and environmental justice, but are sometimes intimidated by how hard it is to be a good ally, day in and day out?
Perhaps you feel like you have to get it just right, all the time, and that you’re not allowed to make mistakes.
Maybe you’ve been tirelessly educating yourself in the realms of social justice, but get overwhelmed by your feelings of guilt, shame, frustration, grief that are surfacing.
Doing this good hard work can be exhausting, overwhelming and difficult.
While some amount of struggle is necessary in all growth, it doesn’t have to break you.
In fact, it shouldn’t.
You'll learn:
Why perfectionism, shame and overwhelm show up in allyship
How these are symptomatic byproducts of white supremacy culture
How to recognize your own body’s cues that you’re overwhelmed, frozen or spiraling
Somatic tools to combat these feelings that debilitate and stall you out
How somatics are a vital tool for well-being and long-term sustainability
in the good hard work.
This workshop will be free for all who register and attend live, and an opportunity to get a feel for and ask questions about the upcoming Beyond Allyship program.
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR:
Hi, I’m Odessa and I’m glad you’re here. I’m a trauma-informed somatic educator, embodiment and social justice educator with an MA in Somatic Psychology from CIIS and a certificate from Transformative Programs in Embodied Social Justice.
I combine these areas of expertise to bring you an embodied, wholistic approach to creating the communities we dream of.
I help change-makers and new-paradigm vision-holders implement inclusive, equitable and diversity-affirming practices in your communities and programs, and deepen your sense of belonging and purpose through healing up white-body supremacy from a trauma-informed somatic lens.
ready to join us? register below...