Caucus to Collectivity: Dismantling Racism from a White-Identified Perspective

How is our practice a resource for moving into the world rather than avoiding it? How can our love of humanity be the ground from which we address racism, injustice, and oppression?

If you identify as white, how can we fully see our role in maintaining systems of oppression so that we may let them go? So we may all know our inherent liberation.

No one wins in this system.

If our practices don’t offer a way to work with this, then we are maintaining the privilege of ignoring and/or bypassing what marginalized populations can not ignore or bypass.

This day of retreat is specifically designed for those who identify as white. The practice of identity-based caucusing is vital in fostering a collective community that honors inclusivity and belonging, and de-centers a harmful hegemony. There are important conversations for white people to have, accountable to BIPOC individuals, aimed at dismantling racism. Only when white people are ready to do the work of confronting the myriad of emotions, attitudes, behaviors, and actions that stem from internalized white supremacy will we be able to forward a just, equitable society of collective presence.

Join these four white-identified teachers for a day of practice, embodiment, discussions, and action-planning about committing or re-committing to a practice rooted in love rather than alienation, awareness rather than ignorance, and engagement over apathy or burnout. Led by Caverly Morgan, Suniti Dernovsek, David Perrin & Latifa Till