Heal Thyself, Heal The World
A Transformative Initiation for People Racialized as White
(Heal Thyself XVIII May 1 - August 6)
“I've noticed a sense of relief. I know that racism is really, really real & a huge problem & with that relief comes more open, honest communication and sharing from my clients which enables me to be the best coach I can be for them.”
– Graduate Testimonial
This is not a DEI Course
DEI courses are great for making structured shifts in corporate environments, but sustainable, masterful change happens at the level of the individual’s personal relationship with these topics. To move the collective in the direction of inclusivity, you and I have to heal ourselves of the conditioning and programming that has us operate in ways that perpetuate disconnection, unconsciousness, dissociation, fear, and adversarial thinking in our everyday lives.
“I am thriving in my professional role as a result of the reputation I now have with our clients.”
– Graduate Testimonial
Have you taken a DEI course and come away feeling unsatisfied? DEI courses will NOT cut it if you’re truly committed to lasting and sustainable cultural competency! DEI programs tend to be very corporate and focus on rules and systems of etiquette and social guidelines to create the rudimentary, but often awkward and presumptuous, semblance of diversity consciousness to compensate for a lack of connection. You don’t need to be told how to behave. You need more understanding of the people you interact with, as well as better self-awareness regarding your own social and cultural conditioning.
“Financially, my business was mostly attracting white middle-class women. Relationships were challenging because I was in a role and lost myself. I was feeling limited and lost. I didn’t know who I was.”
– Graduate Testimonial
But anyone who is marginalized can see right through this. Consider, for example, American “Southern Hospitality” and all of its rules vs. the South’s horrific history around human rights and exclusivity. Learning how to be more polite without learning how to connect more deeply with people who are marginalized is superficial and fairly useless if your intentions are sincere.
Heal Thyself is an invitation to initiate yourself into a commitment to disrupting and dismantling oppressive conditioning in your personal perspectives in order to create the experience of sustainable and dynamic transformation in your personal and professional life.
We propose that there is nothing else out there like ReMember Institute’s Curriculum for Diversity Consciousness, and we invite you to have the life-changing experience of our premiere intensive offering:
Heal Thyself is for white people who have a SINCERE and HEARTFELT desire to BE the change they want to see in the world.
This course is one of the most SUSTAINABLE paths to replace cultural hopelessness and helplessness with proactive and generative thinking, to gain cultural confidence, earn trust equity in your relationships with marginalized peoples, release shame and guilt, access more truth, create connection, swap out performative behavior for genuine advocacy and intimacy, increase your capacity for sensation, and reMember who you are. Free yourself from the social fears and anxieties you experience around intimacy with people who do not look like you. Gain more sensitivity, empathy, and awareness of the needs of people who you care about. Become more emotionally and culturally intelligent. Learn how to be a more holistic and integrated presence in the world for the benefit of yourself and all of humanity.
This course was created for YOU if you are passionate about your growth as an agent for change, and are racialized as white (identify as white, are considered white, and live in a society where you are afforded white privilege), and were born into a society with a history of ableism, sexism, lgbtqia+ phobia and antagonism, racism, classism and other forms of marginalization.
This course is for you if you are sick and tired of feeling awkward, uninformed, or uncultured when it comes to relating to people who don’t look like you.
This course is for you if you are frustrated by the fact that all of your friends, coworkers/employees, customers/clients, and/or communities are predominantly white, able-bodied, cis-hetero, and you desire to live your life with more connection and empathy for other cultures and dynamics.
“The course and its teaching staff impart an indelible amount of wisdom to knowledge, which is the basis of healing to understand where we are today as a society and giving us the tools to trust our necessary role in shifting toward a more just and equitable world. No small task, yet the shift is deftly accomplished — and there is opportunity for further lifetime learning through the private alumni group.”
– Graduate Testimonial
“Reverend Brig has a deep and abiding patience for this work, a unique willingness to engage in its messy realities, a wellspring of compassion and a vision for bringing it to white communities. In teaching us about power, racism, and spirituality, she does not foster shame, but rather cures us of it, empowering us to liberate ourselves, to grow and to thrive.”
– Graduate Testimonial
Do you care about your impact on the world regarding this topic? Do you have relatives, friends, co-workers, neighbors, employees who are people of color, disabled friends, or members of other marginalized groups? Do you want to BE an active part of the change that needs to happen in order for Humanity to advance itself in a healthy way? Do you desire more awareness of the experiences of people who don’t look like you? Would you like to improve your capacity for intimacy with a more diverse spectrum of human beings? Would you like to be free of anxiety and awkwardness when talking about race, disability, and gender antagonism? Is your business, community, or organization catering inadvertently to mostly white or able-bodied people, and very few, if any, marginalized people are represented? Do you wish to counter, disrupt, or deprogram your oppressive biases so that you can be a better ally, a better friend, a better employer, a better person of service, etc…?
In a white supremacist, capitalist, European settler colonial, cis heteropatriarchal, ableist, christo-fascist society...
...all people racialized as white are racist, have white privilege, and perpetuate white supremacy.
...all able-bodied people are ableist, have ableist privilege, and perpetuate ableism.
...all people gendered as men are cis heteropatriarchal, misogynist, homeo/bi/trans/queer phobic, have male privilege, and perpetuate cis heteropatriarchy.
How do the statements above make you feel? Do you know what they mean? Do you reject these notions? Can you understand that because all people in these types of societies experience some form of oppression, it is challenging to accept that you also experience privilege AND that the way you think/perceive, live, and interact with others is profoundly impacted by societal engineering and conditioning, whether you are conscious of it or not? This is true. It is also true that not understanding this is a condition of your own oppression, and causes you, at the very least, discomfort, and at most, causes you to do harm to yourself and others. Do you want to understand better? Would you like to increase your mastery of conflict resolution and collaborative skills around these topics?
Racism, from the perspective of marginalized “people of color” (POC) is a form of explicit OR implicit bias, which is based on ethnicity/skin color, and is activated to create oppressive hegemony (social hierarchy). It’s not just a feeling or perspective demonstrated as hatred. On the surface, racism can even superficially appear to be complimentary when practiced as fetishism and/or objectification, for example. If you’re white and you think you’re not racist, it’s because, in a white supremacist society, people racialized as white are taught to think about such things within the dissociative framework of the Karpman Drama Triangle. A racist is, therefore, caricatured as a villain based on our conditioning. Like a Nazi sympathizer, for example.
This is how we are taught. And then, when we add shame, guilt, and punitive conditioning to the mix, people fear being labeled in such a way because no one wants to be ostracized or otherwise punished. So naturally, out, your response would be, “I’m not racist. All lives matter.” Unfortunately, that is NOT how racism works. Racism is a tool of oppression, as is ableism, sexism, classism, and homo/bi/trans/queer antagonism, etc. Resistance to this truth does not free you from experiencing the impact of this truth.
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