This dynamic workshop explores a power analysis of white supremacy and systemic racism in the United States. In this intensive workshop, participants become a learning cohort through large and small group discussion. The shared learning environment encourages participants to apply this analysis towards institutional growth and change. The workshop has six primary objectives:

1. Co-actively – in action together – create shared language for talking about how white supremacy and systemic racism operate in the United States society
2. Explore the historical development of white supremacy and systemic racism in the United States
3. Grapple with how white supremacy and systemic racism operate by applying a power analysis to systems and institutions
4. Dig into the processes of racialization that misshape all people and consider how to build pathways towards antiracist co-liberation
5. Experience a sense of one’s individual and collective stake in the reparation and restoration of all creation
6. Practice using tools, applying frameworks, and having intentional conversations together in cohorts that build the foundation for antiracist institutional transformation.

Toward Liberation is a three-day workshop with 22 contact hours that utilize a breadth of modalities to engage a variety of learning styles. Cohorts of participants are introduced to key frameworks for describing and understanding how white supremacy and systemic racism operate within institutions and deepen their learning through large group discussions, experiential activities, small group sharing, and individual reflection.

The full cohort will meet daily on Thursday, June 8, Friday June 9, and Saturday, June 10  from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Individually packaged lunches and snacks are included in the price of admission.