RISK, FAILURE AND RECOVERY
The work of transformation requires that we grapple with experiences of failure and perfectionism and identify our personal responses and impulses to risk and failure. In doing so, we are better positioned to exercise creative stamina and build collaborative systems of support for anti-racism organizing within our institutions. In the face of an always-shifting social context around issues of anti-racism, we are all challenged to put our values into practice. Feelings and mechanisms of isolation, larger oppressive systems, and fear of public scrutiny contribute to a culture of risk aversion and block us from fully engaging in the necessary, full-being labor that dismantling racism demands of us.

This playful 3-hour experience invites people to engage with the complexity of their work as agents of anti-racist change within their organizations. It functions as a laboratory for failure, risk, and resilience, equips participants with a new set of tools, and endeavors to engage each individual in the fullness of their humanity to set them upon a path toward new ways of leading.

Risk, Failure and Recovery is most suitable for individuals who have completed at least one, full-day introductory workshop on systemic racism. Grounded analysis of race, racism, and Whiteness is useful and preferred.

Workshop activities include:
some light movement around the space
tapping feet
participants lightly touching each other on the shoulder
journal writing and worksheet engagement