Urgency requires deep feeling of the injustices we see around us - and we can't think our way to this kind of solution. This session is a laboratory of embodied practices to deepen our ability to see experiences different than our own, and build stamina to process the depth of feelings this provokes.

Why didn’t the idealism of the 1960’s lead to more substantive change? Partly because of a lack of understanding of how transformation happens. We now call this Transformation Literacy, with three overarching steps: 1. See your blind spots, personally systemically; 2. Allow yourself to feel fully what you’ve seen; 3. Let go of the now to activate Action Confidence and co-create what needs to emerge. Many White folks across the nation came face to face with step 1 during the inequities of the pandemic, and again after George Floyd’s murder. But many of us didn’t have the stamina to stay with the feelings these realizations produced. As author Kelsey Blackwell says, “For people of color, there is no option not to feel how racial inequities impact our lives. They land squarely in our lap every day. It’s time to be joined by our white allies in the feeling of this - not in a self-flagellating kind of way but in an ‘I’m willing to be vulnerable and not (physically or psychologically) bounce when the conversation gets real’ kind of way.” 
 
 To do this, we can’t think our way to a solution. As Resmaa Menakem writes, “The body is where we fear, hope and react; where we constrict and release; and where we reflexively fight, flee or freeze.” This session will be a movement laboratory to deepen our ability to see experiences different than our own, and build stamina to process the depth of feelings this provokes.