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Practical Steps to Fighting Racism
$597.00
This intensive is designed to move you from stress and confusion about racial dynamics to awakening and empowerment so you can disrupt the system of racism.
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“Sacil’s workshop is essential to anyone wanting to be part of the solution to racism in America.” -Mr. Kim Kristensen, WarriorMediator: Training, Coaching, & Mediation
I’ve been outspoken about “isms” for most of my life. I’ve always been someone to stand up for people who can’t speak for themselves, who are underrepresented or ignored. Whether it was age, gender, ability, race, it didn’t matter. Feeling like I didn’t fit in helped me to be loud about injustice because I didn’t have to worry about my friends shutting me out if they didn’t agree.
I know most people do have a group that they don’t want to offend. They have solidarity with family, school friends, other mothers, coworkers. It’s so much easier to just go along and not rock the boat.
But things are shifting now. If you can’t feel it, I’m telling you – they are. If you’re angry after the strangling death of George Floyd, have mixed feelings about the protests, or are confused why this movement has caught on around the world, but you want to feel better, get some clarity, and understand, then you have a choice to make.
You can read all you can, watch the news (knowing it’s biased because all the media in the U.S. is controlled by just 5 companies), look for Black voices to follow and try to figure it out on your own, knowing that you’re making mistakes, but not knowing what they are. Or you can do some intensive inner work with a professional facilitator and a group of people who are also seeking understanding you can shift your thinking.
“Best investment I made this year!” -Barbara Zuckerman Portzline, Founder: Organizational Rebel
This isn’t about white privilege or the Black experience. It’s about the racist structure that so many of us don’t even see. This 4-hour intensive gives you facts about how racism was created in America, helps you recognize your own defensiveness so you can overcome it, and gives you practical actions you can take to disrupt the racist system.
Plus, you receive integrated self-care when we pause to check in with our bodies and emotions so we can all stay in learning mode. With nobody blaming you for your color, or shaming you for your ancestry, or guilting you for not knowing, we can get to the business of learning why we think the way we do about race and how we can do better.
Be brave. Get engaged. End racism.
Benefits
• Gain knowledge on the creation of race and racism
• Increase awareness of your own defense mechanisms around race and ways to overcome them
• Receive integrated self-care techniques to manage emotional discomfort
• Understand anti racism and gain a better idea of how and when to stand up
• Leave with two to three actions that you are comfortable to do and ideas for actions to work up to
• Recommended reading/viewing list
• Followup communication for accountability
This intensive provides the research you don’t have time to do in an easily digestible format integrated with the self-care so you get the most out of it. You’re lovingly held accountable for your beliefs and actions in class and afterwards with followup emails. If you’re looking to make a real shift in your thinking that can change your life and possibly save the life of another, this workshop is a way to do it.
Questions? Contact me in the chatbox below.
You can get a free 1-hour preview of the course here.
Mary Elizabeth Clark (verified owner) –
When Trump first came down the elevator spewing hate and racist language, I believed, as a self-satisfied liberal white woman, that he would be rejected and laughed off the front page. Not only wasn’t he laughed off, but he was promoted by the mainstream media as the best entertainment since sliced bread.
I had no conception of the culture in which I live. Around that time, I read an article by Masha Gessen in The New Yorker describing, from her years of covering Putin’s Russia, what Trump represented in the United States. She stated that he was carefully chosen to destroy the idea of democracy in America, and the only way to resist authoritarianism was to join with those who were oppressed by democracy in America. To stand with Blacks, Latinos, LGBTQs, immigrants, and many others, and let them teach me how democracy in America is not true democracy, but a system of constructed white privilege that only benefits whites. Like Sarah Kendzior, Masha Gessen, while ostensibly respected, is ignored. No one really wants to know what Trumpism is: the open use of centuries of constructed systemic racism to obliterate our country.
I met Sacil Armstrong online through a resistance group. I respect and admire her, and I believe her work as a social justice and equity healer is beyond valuable today. It is the blood, bone, and guts of true democracy. I have taken her webinar and her intensive workshop and am still coming to terms with the depth of what I have learned and will continue learning. Sacil’s style is kind, sincere, and non-blaming, but more crucially, it is no BS, honest, and corrective. This is the most effective time I have spent resisting in four years. I am grateful to Sacil and to her dedication to our country. I am privileged to know and love her.
Barbra Portzline,PhD (verified owner) –
The class ‘Practical Steps to Fighting Racism’ opened my eyes to shifts in both behavior and thinking that I need to make in order to impact change. Sacil’s class is a no blame, no shame, highly interactive, highly engaging, and highly informative intensive that will make a difference in how you see the world.
Susan Brochin (verified owner) –
from Susan B.
I just completed Sacil’s brilliant course on anti-Racism. In the middle of a world in changes, this was the perfect class to take. Sacil Armstrong is a born teacher and researcher. Her passion for history and dedication as a researcher is very present. Her delivery was organized , clear, passionate and eye-opening. Even having taught U.S. history to middle schoolers, there was so much that I did not still know, that Sacil included. Once we had the background and history, This created a background to understand more of what is happening today, and the deep work that needs to be done. Isn’t that why we study history? to learn what works and what does not? The second part of the class was about weaving this history into present time, and empowering each of us to do whatever we can to help today. We learned what it means to be anti-racist in a supportive container of Sacil’s skill as a facilitator. She includes several guided meditations to allow us to come to our center, so that the information is received. Her motto is “No Blame, No Shame, No Guilt.” This course is not only relevant but life changing.
Kim Kristensen (verified owner) –
Sacil’s “Practical Steps for Fighting Racism” intensive was enlightening, informative, and inspiring.
She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge combined with her unique style of “no shame, no guilt” that makes this training both accessible and impactful.
As a skilled facilitator, Sacil kept us all engaged and even entertained at times!