Attending to Healing

Virtual Institute

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Upcoming Virtual Institute

Thursday, June 27, 2024

9:30AM to 4:30PM

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About The Attending to Healing 1-Day Event

You get to create a world that works for everyone. What is yours to do is guided by your thoughts, ideas, and intentions. Healing as an aspiration, awareness, and practice offers us the tools to return to our wholeness, shield us as we attend to thriving, and respond to what activates separation.

Healing is the work of coming home to ourselves again and again. Because oppression is persistent, healing must be persistent and on-going. Doing equity works requires continuous healing from the effects of the many faces of oppression that emerge from a foundation of white delusion, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cis-hetero patriarchy. You must interrupt and disrupt these pillars of oppression in order to tap into your resiliency, access your agency, and express the fullness of your humanity. It is from this place that we live into the values of justice and liberation and root ourselves to the interconnectedness and collective humanity which pave the path we will travel home.

We believe that healing must be prioritized as we work collaboratively towards transformation and liberation; it cannot wait until our systems are redesigned. Attending to your individual healing is essential and allows us to then lean into and reconnect to our collective healing. In this institute, we draw from the wisdom of Queer, Black and Indigenous ancestral healers to explore how to center and integrate processes for ongoing individual, interpersonal and collective healing when working, collaborating, and designing for equity.

In this 1-day event, you will be invited to:

  • Explore why healing is necessary and what it can look like at the individual, interpersonal and collective level

  • Flow through states of awareness - acknowledgement - acceptance - agency

  • Experience and contribute to a healing space that centers resilience, inherent wholeness, ancestral wisdom, and collective care

  • Build connections across multiple healing frameworks and modalities to support collective and individual healing

Who should attend this institute

Anyone seeking to deepen their inside-out equity leadership work by attending to their own healing in a supportive community.

 
 
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What Participants Are Saying

“This is a must-do course if you are starting your journey in equity. Even if you aren't just starting out, it's a fantastic refresher that will keep you motivated in this work!”

— Wynn Kwan, Social Impact Specialist

“This experience empowered me as a changemaker. It was clear from the beginning that NEP facilitators bring their entire hearts and selves to this work and I appreciated the thoughtfulness and engagement of my peers and colleagues. Thank you for creating this space for our group and providing room for us to grow.”

— Allie Bateman, Ford Next Generation Learning

“This course is the most important professional development I've participated in. The facilitators guided and supported us through complex content and made it entirely accessible no matter where you are on your equity journey.”

— Karen Cowe, Ten Strands

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Teams of 2-8 from schools, nonprofit organizations, foundations, or others interested in deepening their knowledge, commitment and agency to lead efforts to disrupt and transform racism and inequity at the individual, institutional, and systemic and societal levels.

  • In an effort to create accessible spaces for everyone, we ask that participants refrain from wearing scented products such as perfume/colognes, hair products, cosmetics, and scented lotions while attending our event, as these products can trigger serious health issues for those with fragrance allergies and/or chemical sensitivities. For more information on being fragrance-free, visit this Fragrance Free Toolkit.

    By registering for this event, participants agree to the COVID-19 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND LIABILITY WAIVER AND RELEASE OF CLAIMS and the NEP Pandemic Safety Policy.

  • Because this residential institute requires attention to building a learning community, we require full attendance for the duration of the institute.

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