A PATH ACTION TO VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE SESSIONS
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Session times and topics may change subject to presenter availability
Day 1: Friday, November 18th, 2022
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Introduction
1pm ET (10am PT) Introduction to Collecting Courage:A Path to Action
Camila Pereira
Nneka Allen
Nicole Salmon
Nneka Allen
Nicole Salmon
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2pm ET (11am PT) Reflection
You will begin to explore racial justice from an awake posture. We want everyone to make decisions from this position.
Understanding the social and historical contexts that support racism is central to identifying your activism. Being aware of the social and racial context is a vital part of being anti-racist and offers opportunities for a more accurate analysis of today’s social problems and your relationship to those problems.
Our ability to reflect, listen and engage are essential to being fully awake.
Understanding the social and historical contexts that support racism is central to identifying your activism. Being aware of the social and racial context is a vital part of being anti-racist and offers opportunities for a more accurate analysis of today’s social problems and your relationship to those problems.
Our ability to reflect, listen and engage are essential to being fully awake.
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4pm ET (1pm PT) Self Awareness
You will begin to explore racial justice from an awake posture. We want everyone to make decisions from this position.
Understanding the social and historical contexts that support racism is central to identifying your activism. Being aware of the social and racial context is a vital part of being anti-racist and offers opportunities for a more accurate analysis of today’s social problems and your relationship to those problems.
Our ability to reflect, listen and engage are essential to being fully awake.
Understanding the social and historical contexts that support racism is central to identifying your activism. Being aware of the social and racial context is a vital part of being anti-racist and offers opportunities for a more accurate analysis of today’s social problems and your relationship to those problems.
Our ability to reflect, listen and engage are essential to being fully awake.
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Day 2: Saturday, November 19th, 2022
Sound Bath
1:00 PM ET (10am PT) 15 minutes with Dasha Shleyeva & Welcome from hosts (5 mins)
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Walking the Path to Collective Liberation
1:20 PM ET - 2:20 PM ET (10:20am PT-11:20am PT) (1 hour)
Come to this session to learn more about your connections to white dominant culture and tips for walking the path of true collective liberation. In this session, attendees will have an opportunity to assess how they perpetuate or resist the negative impacts of white dominant culture, learn how to practice solidarity and review tips for demonstrating collective liberation values.
Learning Questions
How does white dominant culture impact me and others?
What is collective liberation?
What is solidarity and why is it important?
How do I walk the talk related to collective liberation?
How do I prepare to respond to the resistance that will come my way?
Learning Questions
How does white dominant culture impact me and others?
What is collective liberation?
What is solidarity and why is it important?
How do I walk the talk related to collective liberation?
How do I prepare to respond to the resistance that will come my way?
Deneisha Thompson
Deneisha Thompson
As a natural born leader and true lover of all people, Deneisha has built a strong reputation as a “consultant with a heart” who has over 15 years of experience helping to build strong teams. A licensed social worker turned entre/edupreneur Deneisha Thompson is the founder of 4 Impact Consulting, a social impact firm that provides culture-influencing organizational development services focused on building, repairing and positioning nonprofit teams for impact and growth.
Deneisha works with nonprofits to build strong organizational cultures, systems and partnerships where people Work Better, Together and collectively increase their impact. She designs powerful meetings, workshops, retreats and curriculum that have become highly sought after personal and professional development opportunities. Learn more about her here.
As a natural born leader and true lover of all people, Deneisha has built a strong reputation as a “consultant with a heart” who has over 15 years of experience helping to build strong teams. A licensed social worker turned entre/edupreneur Deneisha Thompson is the founder of 4 Impact Consulting, a social impact firm that provides culture-influencing organizational development services focused on building, repairing and positioning nonprofit teams for impact and growth.
Deneisha works with nonprofits to build strong organizational cultures, systems and partnerships where people Work Better, Together and collectively increase their impact. She designs powerful meetings, workshops, retreats and curriculum that have become highly sought after personal and professional development opportunities. Learn more about her here.
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Panel: How to be a Traitor to Whiteness
2:20 PM ET -3:05 PM ET (11:20am PT- 12:05pm PT) 45 Mins
Rickesh Lakhani
Irene Konev
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Break (5 mins)
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Culture Change
3:10 PM ET - 4:10PM ET (12:10pm PT-1:10pm PT) (1 hour)
Session description:
It has been said that there is no greater social disruptor than the artist. From our fundraising to our programs, how creative have we been within the nonprofit sector? Join Rachel for an introduction to strategies designed to excavate your most creative self for the work of equity.
It has been said that there is no greater social disruptor than the artist. From our fundraising to our programs, how creative have we been within the nonprofit sector? Join Rachel for an introduction to strategies designed to excavate your most creative self for the work of equity.
Bio:
Rachel Wyley is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Culture Kinesis, a coaching firm that does the work of cultural reimagination and leadership liberation by creating containers in which organizations and individuals can (re)build intentional community, engage in critical unlearning, embrace radical re-education, and then, reimagine an equitable future.
Rachel Wyley is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Culture Kinesis, a coaching firm that does the work of cultural reimagination and leadership liberation by creating containers in which organizations and individuals can (re)build intentional community, engage in critical unlearning, embrace radical re-education, and then, reimagine an equitable future.
Rachel Wyley
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Break (5 mins)
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The One Thing that Keeps Your Organization Stuck
4:15 PM ET- 5:00 PM ET (1:15pm PT-2:00pm PT)
We’ll look at the overarching structure of white supremacy and how it plays out in our nonprofits and creates a lack of trust. Using the texts of Rebecca Solnit’s On Silence, and others, we’ll find key points of intersectionality to draw our analysis from, as we see the violence inherent in the system. Then we will talk about deliberately building trust. This is a highly interactive session with break out rooms and a chance for you to share your story. We would love to have your voice and experience at this session.
You will learn:
> Recent research on the unequal nature of nonprofit work
> What are aspects of white supremacy culture at work?
> What are the antidotes to these in the nonprofit workplace?
> The Discipline of Hope
> Building trust deliberately at work
> How to build trust if it has been broken
You will learn:
> Recent research on the unequal nature of nonprofit work
> What are aspects of white supremacy culture at work?
> What are the antidotes to these in the nonprofit workplace?
> The Discipline of Hope
> Building trust deliberately at work
> How to build trust if it has been broken
Mazarine Treyz
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Thank Yous and close
5:00 PM ET (2pm PT) 5 minutes