Waking Up White — Especially in These Times
Fridays, October 13-December 15, 8:30-10:00am, PST
• Do you want to contribute with more clarity, courage and love to racial justice and to group and inter-group healing, especially in these times?
• Do you want to show up in more powerful and grounded ways – for people of color, for other white people, for yourself – as part of the process of creating racial equity and transformation – both within the InterPlay community and your broader community?
• Do you seek more embodied practices, wisdom and support as you make your way on this path (whether you are just beginning or well along)?
This online class, led by Katrina Browne and Katie Hymans, offers space to deepen our understanding of racism and white conditioning at both the personal and collective level. We will draw on Debby Irving’s insightful book, Waking Up White, as well as other readings. We will use movement, voice, storytelling, dancing on behalf of, and other InterPlay tools to stretch and exform our way through discomfort and into our deepest embodied knowing about how to transform racism and white privilege.
Anyone practiced in expressive arts is welcome. There will be an accountability structure with InterPlay leaders of color.
To register, please contact the Body Wisdom office at 510.465.2797 or info@interplay.org. Maximum registration of 15; first come, first served. Please register by Wednesday, October 4.
Cost: Registration $360-$500 sliding scale. Scholarships and work study can be explored.
Registration/Information: 510.465.2797 or info@interplay.org
Katrina produced/directed "Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North," an Emmy-nominated documentary (PBS: 2008) that follows her family as they uncover the role of their Rhode Island ancestors – and the North more broadly – in the transatlantic slave trade, and as they grapple with racism and white privilege today. She works as a speaker, facilitator, and trainer in schools, churches, museums, conferences, and workplaces around the U.S. and overseas. She focuses especially on “racialized emotions” and how to engage white folks.
She is excited to bring her dancer self together with her race work. She is among the InterPlay leaders who are co-conspiring to use InterPlay tools for racial awareness and healing. Katrina leads/co-leads whiteness workshops as well as interracial workshops, with an InterPlay framework, and also in collaboration with Afro Flow Yoga, and the Dance Exchange. Katrina has been a certified InterPlay leader since 1998.