Workshops and Facilitation

This work has developed through nearly twenty years of academic and personal study, travel, personal transformation and healing, and professional experience. My focus is helping to deconstruct education models that rely on moral and knowledge systems grounded in race and power; re-orienting our perspective for fuller expressions of our shared humanity. | LINKEDIN

Whether building a new curriculum, auditing existing pedagogical practices, building a new team, contact us to learn about our services. Workshop available not only to educators, social service workers, parents, or anyone interested in a new perspective on the past.

Personal and Ancestral Biography

Grounded in personal biography work, our workshops and courses help teachers and educators understand their relationship to bias, prejudice, and oppression through the stories of their families, ancestors, and the land. Stories arising from one’s own experience and self-knowledge allows for cross-cultural connections.

From an anti-racist perspective, biography work helps teachers understand his/her/their Internalized Racial Oppression and its impact on students.

Read more about this work: Confronting the Oppressor Within

History of ahimsa / Nonviolence in action

Becoming anti-racist educators requires re-learning history. To shift to a peace pedagogy and practice it is necessary to center local indigenous knowledge; center the historical narrative of non-violence; tell new stories to shift from a false and antiquated epistemological basis to a honest and truthful reflection of the world.

Essential topics include:

  • Re-framing and re-orientation of the study of geography, history and culture

  • Africa’s role on Humanity, Ancient Civilizations and the Modern World

  • Matrilineal, Matriarchal, matrilocal: West Africa, Turtle Island and a Future of Freedom

  • Resistance + Revolution: Tecumseh, Haiti, and the Struggle of Liberation

  • The Peace of Spirit, the modern history of nonviolence, 1893-2001

Team-based learning

Examples include:

  • Curriculum audit, design and planning

  • Grade level learning object

  • Multi-year learning plans

  • Subject or area specific resource building

  • Trust-building, conflict resolution, community build, project-based learning