ButterflyEffects
Cohort-based Course
The complexity of oppression, how we internalize it, and how we collectively find liberation
ButterflyEffects
Cohort-based Course
The complexity of oppression, how we internalize it, and how we collectively find liberation
Course overview
Butterfly Effects
An 8-week-long experiential journey to help you analyze power, connect to your body, anchor in your humanity, and find ways of authentically engaging in antiracist work that leave you exhilarated instead of exhausted.
Who is this course for
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Is your anti-racism journey feeling stagnant?
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Are you grappling with anxiety at just the thought of another conversation about racism?
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Does judgment and perfectionism impede authentic connection in your activist community?
Topics covered
Noticing our Bodies
Slowing down, rediscovering our relationship with our physical selves, and intentionally tending to our bodies
Patterns of Power
Analyzing the patterns and complexity of power dynamics and how we internalize them
Building Frameworks
Unlearning our unconscious beliefs practices that uphold white supremacy and keep us from connection to the humanity in ourselves and in others
Moving Forward
Developing tools, and cultivating grace to move beyond our fears and into human connection, love and co-creation
Finding Footing
Bringing ourselves into balance, our practices into alignment and engaging in right relationship with the world around us
Creating Community
Having a sense of belonging, people to love us, anchor us, celebrate us, and call us in when we stray, are the biggest indicators of whether we will be able to continue to do the the hard work of making the world a better place
ButterflyEffects
See what people are saying
Anonymous
Nicole Meitzen
Cathy-Mae Karelse, PhD
Meet your guides
Nakia Winfield (she/her)
Nakia has had the grace and honor to be a resource trainer with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond- best known for the Undoing Racism Training, & has done consulting work across the US- from the City of Austin's Equity Office, to non-profits, state mental health funders and beyond.
You will receive the benefits of Nakia's experience as a policy analyst, an HR professional, a social worker, a Liberating Structures practitioner, an organizer and a leadership coach.
Devyn Harris (they/she)
As a love warrior, Devyn Harris is in this world to support healing through love. They are a queer mental health coach, massage therapist, facilitator, organizer/activist, artist, she believes compassion, grace, and connection are the keys to healing change both in our own bodies and in the world. She offers tools to realize our body's innate ability to heal trauma, connect with love and our ancestral wisdom, guiding folks to rise above reactions and stay centered through the complexities of life, bringing in compassion and forgiveness throughout the journey.
Learning is better with cohorts
Actively learning, not passively spectating
This course uses Liberating Structures- easy-to-learn microstructures that enhance relational coordination and trust. They quickly foster lively participation in groups of any size, making it possible to truly include everyone.
Learn with a cohort of peers
This work needs all of us. Collaborate with other people seeking to make a better world- learning from and with co-conspirators on your antiracist journey.
Create a community
This work is long term. We invite you to join a network of people with whom you can get and give advice, comfort, grace, and accountability as you continue on your path to being better humans.