White Settler
Community of Unlearning
WELCOME AND THANKS FOR BEING HERE!
The Community of Unlearning journey will focus on a process of truth telling, building understanding and developing practice around Indigenous specific anti-racism. We will work through grounded and embodied experiences towards building our own stamina and humility. We look forward to getting to know each of you and creating a space for us to learn from each other and the land. We will create a supportive container for white settlers to engage in critical self-reflexive learning to identify, understand and disrupt Indigenous specific racism in themselves, the communities and the organizations they are a part of. The sessions model critical self-reflexive practice, vulnerability, courage and humility.
Our conversations will focus on becoming white-aware, settler colonialism, decolonizing practice, supporting each other in change, identifying racism and working with resistance within the system and self.
Together we will challenge and deconstruct, dominant norms in self and society, share and explore resources, practice vulnerability and collaborate on personal and systemic transformations (aka. healing)
All cohorts include:
16hrs of facilitated group time
access to 1:1 sessions with facilitators (as requested)
3-6 months free access to the Our Unlearning network
COST to participate in the Blanket Exercise plus join a cohort is as follows:
*Sliding scale is a pricing system that aims for equity in access. Its asks those that can afford to pay, to do so - and those that can not, dont. Most of us make choices everyday about what we do and don't prioritize. We invite you to prioritize this work and we trust you to select the range that is in integrity with this trust based system. You tell us what you can pay, knowing that how you show up. influences what is possible. Your payment should feel a little uncomfortable. Justice is not possible without risk to those who hold the most privilege and wealth.
$850-$1200+ - PAY IT FORWARD. at this range you are covering the cost of this session, and investing in the development of the Our Unlearning platform, program delivery. We invite you to consider paying this amount if you are employed, and/or have one or more academic degrees, and/or are paying 30% or less of income on rent, and/or have a mortgage, are in a double income family and/or have no children; are middle class and able to access intergenerational wealth (parents have investments and capital) and have any type of financial investments /saving (RRSP, pension etc); are food secure, able to eat out regularly, don’t have to stress about money when purchasing clothing, holidays/vacay, wine, concert tickets, subscriptions etc.
$650-$850 - ENOUGH NUMBER. this is the cost of running this individual session. We ask that you make an effort to pay this amount if you have an income, have had access to post secondary education and are able to feed yourself and your family, but like so many of us still have to juggle to make things work each month since we live in aggressive state of capitalism. Like most thing we invest in (over and above our basic survival costs) this payment could require a financial stretch.
< 650 - PAY WHAT YOU CAN. let us know what you can afford.
Free : no need to explain - if you need to be here, you need to be here.