Healing the Roots of Racism: BIPOC and White Farm, Garden, Food, Land Educators

[Vera Simon-Nobes]

Garden educators and farm to school folks are invited to the offering below! 

Healing Caucus Spaces for BIPOC and White Farm, Garden, Food, Land Educators 

The Farm-Based Education Network welcomes Richael Faithful (facilitating the BIPOC sessions) and Julia Metzger-Traber and Rebecca Mintz (facilitating the White sessions) for a six-month series: Healing the Roots of Racism in Ourselves. This series creates space for healing from white supremacy culture and transforming anti-Blackness within ourselves, toward healing our webs of relationships, organizations and societal structures. In this series participants will practice a creative combination of healing practices ranging from embodied awareness to movement, reflection and writing.

The group will meet virtually on Zoom monthly starting the first week of February!

REGISTER: Series for white folks starts February 2,  3-5 pm EST

REGISTER: Series for BIPOC series starts February 3, 6 4-6 pm EST. 

Why racially-based caucus spaces?  Racial Equity Tools writes, "To advance racial equity, there is work for white people and people of color to do separately and together... For white people, a caucus provides time and space to work explicitly and intentionally on understanding white culture and white privilege and to increase one's critical analysis around these concepts. A white caucus also puts the onus on white people to teach each other about these ideas, rather than placing a burden on people of color to teach them. For people of color, a caucus is a place to work with peers to address the impact of racism, to interrupt experiences of internalized racism, and to create a space for healing and working for individual and collective liberation."  

The Farm-Based Education Network is a project coordinated by Shelburne Farms.