Embodying Racial Justice- Level I- Fall 2022


This is the application for the Fall 2022 course on how to address white body supremacy and racism living in white people today, and to take action from an embodied commitment to end racism in our lifetimes. Especially if you are Jewish, queer or trans or hold another marginalized identity AND you are white, this is a place for us to do the learning together from the body up.

Is this for me?  If you are interested in learning more about your body, responses under pressure and capacity to work with other white people and people of color towards racial justice. You want to deepen in your somatic awareness, embodied practice and learnings.  If you are an organizer, consultant, trainer, coach or activist, this is a place for you to be deepening and building your commitment to racial justice.

This eight week course will build your capacity, embodiment and understanding of yourself as a white organizer working inside of liberation movements in the US at this time.  My work is based on my organizing experience in community and social justice movements and my training and teaching the Strozzi Institute.  

The course begins on Monday, October 17th from 9--11 AM PT/ 12-2pm ET to be held online for eight weeks. The course will end on Monday, December 5th.

Course Promises:
* Building a somatic understanding of the body
* Developing embodied awareness through a catalog of somatic practices
* Deeper understanding of embodied anti-racist frameworks- accountability, contradictions, etc.
* Moving from old shape to new shape
* More access to aliveness
* Becoming more congruent, aligning embodiment, words and actions with our longings

Structure of the Program:
* Eight weekly sessions- 2 hours each
* Three coaching groups- 1.5 hours each
* Pre-work & curated reading list
* Embodied daily and weekly practices

The cost for this course is $500-$2,000 siding scale.  30% of funds will be sent to support black organizing. (My last group sent over $15,000 to BOLD - Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity.)

Deadlines:  Please submit this application by Friday, September 30th.  
We will notify you of your acceptance status by Monday, October 3rd.
For any questions email: embodyingracialjustice@gmail.com

About the facilitator:

Dara Silverman is a white, queer Jewish consultant, somatic coach and trainer with 20 years in with organizations and movements for social, racial, economic and gender justice. Dara partners with trainers of color to lead organizational change and leadership development initiatives centering racial justice, equity and liberation.  Dara partners with white trainers to lead caucuses and trainings specifically for white organizers and leaders on dismantling white supremacy in ourselves, organizations and movements. Previously, she was the founding Director of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and the Executive Director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) in New York City. She is certified through the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach. Dara has been studying Somatics with the Strozzi Institute and Generative Somatics since 2011. Dara became a Somatic Coach in 2013 and has been in the Strozzi Institute Teacher Training since 2017and teaching with them since then. She lives on Wappinger and Lenape land in Beacon, NY where she grows eight kinds of berries.

Dara will be joined by a team of coaches who will be supporting participants throughout the course.
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What is your first name?  
What is your last name?
What pronoun do you use? (She/he/they, etc)
Where do you live? (town/city, state)
What is your racial justice work?  Where do you organize and with what groups of people? (ie in an organization, church, synagogue, mosque or temple, neighborhood, etc)
How did you hear about this program (please be specific with the connector- a friend, social media, a course, etc.)
What questions are you grappling with around doing racial justice work as a white person?
What are you hoping to learn? What are you longing for for yourself? For the communities with which you work? For the movements of which you are a part?
What embodiment practices do you do ( for example, yoga, tai chi, aikido, time in nature, etc)                Is there anything else you’d like to share with us about your healing path?
Do you have any access needs (is there anything you need to be able to participate fully- for example captions)?
This course is offered on a sliding scale of $500-1,500. 30% of the funds will go to Black-led movement groups.  Owning Class Rate- $1,500-2,000: for those who have generational or inherited wealth. Full Rate - $1,000: for those comfortably paying their rent or mortgage and those being sponsored by an organization. 
Standard Rate - $500: for those who have a regular income and are paying their mortgage or rent. 
You can also contribute to our reciprocity fund by giving at a higher level to support other participants.
                                                                                                                                                       No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please be in touch with us if you require further financial assistance.                     
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Thank you for your application, and your racial justice efforts.  We will be in touch by Monday, October 3rd with your acceptance status.  We look forward to being in practice with you.
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