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DEIB Leaders Program
Welcome!
All of our meetings are virtual, 90 minutes, confidential, and recorded for easy playback and review. Below you will find guides, reading recommendations, and meditation and visualization exercises.
Dates and Link
12 pm ET (9 am PT) on Zoom
Group Learning Sessions
January 23, February 20, March 19, April 17
Coffee (or tea!) Reflection Space Sessions
February 6, March 5, April 5, April 30
Recordings and Resources
January 23rd - February 5th
Themes that are part of your intentions:
Wanting to normalize diversity, equity, and inclusion work as valuable and applicable in all settings
Wanting to feel fully integrated in our work - not like parts of us must be tamed, managed, or excluded in order to do our work well
Wanting to feel balanced and establish a sense of balance in the communities around us
Coffee or Tea Hour
February 6th
9 AM PT ⏐ 11 AM CT ⏐ 12 PM ET
Topics: Introductions, resourcing, moving on from survival mode, reestablishing “right relationship, and moving with grief
Learning Session
February 20th
9 AM PT ⏐ 11 AM CT ⏐ 12 PM ET
A conversation on Black history month, allyship, and inclusion.
“History is a force that places us in those positions […] to come find new relationships with one another. We put ourselves in context with humanity as a whole.” - Krishni Metivier
Resources
Healing Systems - a recent article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review that explains how we apply trauma healing practices to systemic change, always keeping in mind that our own individual healing is the place where we can most powerfully effect change.
On Medieval History and White Supremacy - a Politico article by Cord Whitaker from 2020 that examines how one-sided ownership over a particular history can foster defensiveness and separation.
Coffee Hour
March 5th
9 AM PT ⏐ 11 AM CT ⏐ 12 PM ET
“One sign that I am violating my own nature in the name of nobility is a condition called burnout. Though usually regarded as the result of trying to give too much, burnout in my experience results from trying to give what I do not possess—the ultimate in giving too little! Burnout is a state of emptiness, to be sure, but it does not result from giving all I have: it merely reveals the nothingness from which I was trying to give in the first place.”
- Parker Palmer
Article on Topic
Face to Face, Melanie Suchet
(The story of a therapist healing herself in response to her client.)
Critical Race Theory and Double Consciousness
April 17th
Handout with quotes from Hegel to Du Bois to Whitaker to Menakem
Community Commitments
The following community commitment guidelines come from the UNC School of Social Work, with whom Sagely partners to offer research internships. Please feel free to share them. We will be using them for our group as well.
Use "I" statements.
Take space, make space.
Acknowledge intention while naming impact.
Commit to confidentiality. What's said here stays here, but what's learned here leaves here.
Use folks' correct names and pronouns.
We are all on a learning journey. Have grace for ourselves and each other.
Avoid "in group" and coded language by explaining and unpacking acronyms.
Agreements
Sagely agrees to keep all information you share confidential.
Sagely uses visualizations, meditations, and case studies that are specifically designed for our groups. They build off of each other and require some instruction before use. We ask that you not share these materials. If you feel that a particular item might be of use in your organization, please contact us about adapting it for your setting.
Sagely keeps recordings of sessions on this password-protected site. We ask that you do not share recordings with anyone outside the group. We ask that you keep all information that your group members share confidential. Thank you.