Facilitation Services and Self Paced Courses
Thank you for your interest in The AntiRacist Table. We acknowledge your desire to move towards cultivating an inclusive community committed to inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility, the essential foundation for an antiracist environment.
We offer a menu of foundational workshops, developed specifically for schools and organizations. In addition, The AntiRacist Table customizes workshops and trainings to meet the specific needs and climate of the requesting institution. Our Foundational Workshops are listed below.
Our Approach
Training Series Objective: To provide training and mentorship to support individuals, families, schools, organizations in creating more inclusive and equitable spaces that reflect and honor human dignity and diversity. ART training and mentorship series are the beginning arc of learning to start on the pathway of liberatory self and community education. Get in touch with us to design the perfect program for your organization or individual needs!
ART Zoom Online and In-Person Training Offerings. These modules can be stand alone training or part of a curated series.
Workshop 1 Key Concepts in Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Goal Setting
Workshop 2 Know Thyself: Foundations of Looking Inward, A Practice for Racial Identity Development, Biography Work
Workshop 3 Know Each Other: Looking Into the World, Racial Identity Development of Cultures, Communities and the Universal
Workshop 4 Bias, Archetypes and Stereotypes
Workshop 5 Building an Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable and Accessible Community
Workshops 6 Awakening Together- Radical Community Care as the Heart of Building Community
Workshop 7 DEIJ Accountability and Self Audits
Workshop 8 Online Platform Cohort 30 Day Lessons Series with Facilitation
Workshop 9 Value Driven Parenting- Creating a Family Culture Centering Principles of Belonging and Inclusion
Workshop 10 Mandalas for Wellbeing
Additional Learning Series Include:
- Zoom Book Study Series: Facilitated book study on books such as The 1619 Project, Viral Justice, Biased, and others.
- Learn and Celebrate Black Artists
- Social Justice Kids
- Dreaming and Resting As Resistance
Featured:
- king A Seat at the AntiRacist Table Mindful Magazine
- 10 Keys to Everyday Anti-Racism Greater Good Science Center
JANUARY PUBLIC WORKSHOP SERIES
Nurture the Narrative: The Art of Biography Series — Towards Conscious Change
It takes courage for a human being to reflect on the past, reset the present and take steps towards a hopeful future for conscious awareness of diversity, equity, and inclusion. To understand who you were and who you have become, we are offering a four-week course leading you through passages of time; revisiting the people and places that influenced your unfolding destiny and life. This “inner self” understanding is essential to the task we are being called to do–to open our hearts to seeing and loving one another, to heal the racial and social divide.
We invite you to join the AntiRacist Table on a journey of discovery and healing over four weeks of study and creating together. Our workshop series weaves together the threads of AntiRacism, Mindfulness, Biography and Art as an opportunity to explore themes pertaining to what it means to be human and show up for one another in this life!
Together we can learn to approach life with the objectivity of a scientist and the soulfulness of an artist. To experience that our lives are inherently intelligent; to become increasingly interested in others; to recognize that we have a valuable role to play; to move toward the freedom to choose how we see the world and how we ‘be’ in it.
We believe biography and social art is deep inner work that can be an integral part of racial and social healing. As we look back to our own cycles of life, we can bear witness to the stages of development occurring every seven years unfolding throughout a human life span just as we observe in the rhythms of nature. These reflections can provide insight for personal growth, transformation, and social healing.
Dates:
January 19th, January 26th, February 2nd, February 16th Sunday 8:30-11:00am PST 11:30am-2:00am EST
4 week series registration fee: $325
Lynn Turner
Position
(she/her) is a native Washingtonian, wife, and mother of two children and the proud descendant of enslaved people. She is a culturally responsive educator who is passionate about teaching young children and supporting families, work that she has done for over thirteen years. Lynn holds a BA in Fine Arts from Sweet Briar College, an MAT in Early Childhood Education from Washington Trinity University, received her Waldorf Early Childhood Teaching Certificate in 2017 and is completing her third year of Biography and Social Arts study. Lynn is the co-founder of the AntiRacist Table and is honored and committed to facilitate and accompany others in the exploration of human becoming. She has been published in Gateways Magazine and has been a workshop presenter for diversity, equity and inclusion at the 2021 Waldorf Early Childhood Education Association of Northern America Teacher Conference. Lynn served on the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Committee as the committee co-chair from 2020-2024. Lynn is a member of the Board for Biography and Social Art, has facilitated Biography workshops for teachers at Waldorf Early Childhood Education Conferences and continues to expand this work.
Cathy O’Neill
Position
(she/her) joined the LA Council of the Smithsonian this year and has contributed Biography Work to their gatherings large and small. She is an Agape Licensed Spiritual Practitioner and a
Certified Diversity Trainer. Cathy is a Biography Worker and has been part of a consistently ongoing Biography Work group since 2012, beginning as coordinator and now co-teaching with two other Biography Workers. She graduated from the Center for Biography and Social Art Certificate Program in 2016 and is Vice Chair of the board of Biography and Social Art. Cathy graduated from the Waldorf Institute of Southern California, Waldorf teacher training, and is currently their Board Chair. She has served on the Westside Waldorf School board for
seventeen years and has served on the boards of numerous community non-profit organizations for the environment, education, social justice, homelessness and the arts with
additional interests and training in conflict resolution, communication and writing.
Kirsten Ivey-Colson
Position
(she/her), JD has an LLM in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the George Washington University Law School and an undergraduate degree in African American Studies and English from the University of Virginia. She is the great-great-grandaughter of enslaved African Americans, the mother of a Black teenager, and highly motivated to contribute to a just and compassionate world. Kirsten is an active meditation practitioner and a student of nonviolent communication, conflict resolution, conflict coaching, neuroscience, happiness, and well-being. She has served as a union steward, conflict coach, mediator, and as a leader in her son’s school’s parent of Black students affinity group.
What people say about us!
“I’ve been doing this program and it is excellent. So wonderfully curated. And the mindfulness component! It is really great and I have already shared with our admin team. I am hoping to use it with our faculty. Wonderful work!”
“I’ve been doing this program and it is excellent. So wonderfully curated. And the mindfulness component! It is really great and I have already shared with our admin team. I am hoping to use it with our faculty. Wonderful work!”
Biography is an account of human life on a path from birth to death. “Bio” originates from Greek, meaning life and ‘graphia,” writing. While Biography can follow a chronological timeline of life events from birth to death, there are also cyclical events occurring every seven years unfolding from infant, childhood, adolescent, adulthood into old age. These stages of development are characterized as developmental phases, like the caterpillar to butterfly lifecycle and for the human being reflecting on these phases of one’s personal development, our biography, can help to bring awareness, renewal and hope about the future.
Caution: Working with Biography and Social Art does have consequences.
Side effects may include: interest, understanding, empathy, as well as gratitude;
self-knowledge (likely to cause some discomfort), humility and improved relations.
Each week we will join together for a live 2.5 hour workshop session working with antiracism principles, mindfulness practice, poetry, artistic and imaginative prompts to open up biographical experiences to deepen our understanding of ourselves and others as we walk the healing path towards individual and collective racial and social healing. We will participate in small group journaling and artistic exercises, deep listening while observing confidentiality with one another and full group sharing and reflections.
All course participants will gain access to our private Nurture the Narrative virtual circle space to discuss and share with one another in community.
No previous artistic experience is required.
During our time together we will be working to bring about interest, empathy, compassion, understanding and therefore awaken connection within ourselves and with others:
Workshops –Towards Conscious Change
“The highest art, for which all the other art forms are simply a preparation – is the social art; the meeting of one human being with another.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Week 1 – Where Did I Come From? (PreBirth to First Years) 1-7
Week 2 – How Am I Becoming? (Family to Institutions) 7-14
Week 3 – Awakening Connections and Who am I Becoming? (Broader Culture and Personalities from 14 to 21)
Week 4-The Path to Liberation (21 and beyond)
Registration will be open early December, please email us to reserve your spot! Space is limited for this series. info@theantiracisttable.com