October 16
9:30 - 11:30AM Pacific
Join Strategy & Solidarity to learn how racialized trauma impacts the human nervous system, and practical skills organizations can use to create cultures of care that center the most impacted.
Leaders and employees who have been working tirelessly to advance diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives over the past decade are feeling overwhelmed, discouraged and hopeless in the face of federal retaliation, censorship and the decimation or budgets for essential social services. The impact is compounded for employees of Color who are experiencing increased rates of racial trauma in and beyond the office.
In this session, Strategy & Solidarity co-founders Carlos Kareem Windham and Theresa Logan will share the lessons they’ve learned through more than a decade supporting organizations in creating strong, cohesive organizational cultures that prioritize staff wellbeing, mitigate racial harm, and deliver quality outcomes for clients/customers - even through the most difficult circumstances.
Participants will
gain a basic knowledge of the human nervous system,
understand the multiple dimensions of racialized trauma, and
learn practical skills for creating cultures of care that center the most impacted, mitigate racialized trauma, and support your team in carrying out essential work in tumultuous & uncertain times.
Facilitators
Carlos Kareem Windham
Carlos is the founder of El Porvenir Services and Co-Founder of the Strategy & Solidarity Collective.
Carlos’ career as an organizer & activist began during their sophomore year of high school wnen they led a successful campaign to remove Coca-Cola vending machines during the international disinvestment campaign in support of South Africa’s fight for Black sovereignty and an end to apartheid. In 1994, Carlos led a student hunger strike at CU Boulder, which succeeded in establishing one of the nation’s first undergraduate Ethnic Studies degree programs.
Their revolutionary spirit has guided them through community centers, universities, music halls, board rooms, and government agencies around the world. They taught expository writing at CU, volunteered at Women’s Media Project in Kingston, Jamaica, and led the marches through the streets at the 1999 Battle in Seattle protesting the November WTO meeting.
For the past 12 years, Carlos has been applying the hard-won wisdom gained over a lifetime of activism and organizing; guiding non-profits, community groups, and public agencies to transform conflict and create more racially just outcomes.
Carlos is also a certified trainer in the Community Resilience Model from the Trauma Resource Institute. They lead live mindfulness moments each Monday in the Strategy & Solidarity community to help get your week started with grounding, breath and intention.
(You can also find Carlos bringing down the house at comedy clubs from Portland, Oregon to Limassol, Cyprus with their irreverent, unapologetic, and highly memorable stand-up.)
Theresa Logan
Theresa is the founder of Subduction Consulting and Co-Founder of the Strategy & Solidarity Collective.
Theresa began organizing with the Metropolitan Alliance for Common Good as a high school student in Portland, Oregon in the late 90s. Following the approach of Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation, Theresa learned the power of building intentional relationships & strategic alliances, mapping power and developing actionable campaigns to pressure local government leaders to address pressing public needs. Working as a community organizer through college, she facilitated house meetings and leadership development sessions, worked on voter registration campaigns and local actions for housing justice, tax reform and health care access.
After graduating with 3 majors and 2 minors from Portland State University, she moved to Washington DC to support grassroots community development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean at the Inter-American Foundation, and later supported immigrant families as a parent advocate with Multicultural Community Service. After completing a masters degree in Conflict Analysis & Resolution at George Mason University, she returned home to Portland to help set up the Oregon Foreclosure Avoidance Program, and then facilitated public engagement and conflict resolution processes for city agencies & non-profits on staff at Resolutions Northwest.
Through her firm, Subduction Consulting, Theresa has spent the past decade working in close partnership with Carlos Kareem Windham to successfully guide community groups, public agencies, and non-profits in repair processes after incidents of racial harm, and to transform workplace cultures, processes & procedures towards more racially just outcomes.
Theresa is a certified trainer in the Community Resiliency Model from the Trauma Resource Institute and teaches Energy Body Mastery and Energy Body Clearing at Last Mask Center.
FAQ
Can I join asynchronously?
Yes! AND you will get the most out of this experience if you participate live. We encourage you to make every effort to join us live - as you would an in-person event. We will share the recording with all registered participants within about 24 hours of the session.
Is this session accessible?
The live workshop will be hosted virtually in Zoom with auto-generated captions enabled. We will provide verbal descriptions of visual materials. Slides will be provided along with the session recording. We will do our best to accommodate any additional accessibility requests received with at least 72 hours advance notice.
Is there a fee to participate?
There is no required fee to register.
We do ask that participants with the means to consider making a meaningful monetary contribution as energy exchange.
If you cannot afford to make any monetary contribution at this time, you are still very welcome to attend!
What is energy exchange?
In a culture of extraction, entitlement and oppression, energy exchange invites us to reconsider how energy moves through what we offer and what we receive. It is a framework in which we endeavor to come into right relationship with one another, our labor, and our value - beyond market rates, transactional relationships, and the coercive hierarchies of capitalism.
Everything is energy. Money is the primary method we use to transfer energy in modern society. Investing some of your energy in this process through a financial contribution not only helps to support Strategy & Solidarity's financial sustainability, but also energetically charges your participation as an invested co-creator in the process, not just an observer, consumer or extractor.
Strategy & Solidarity is 100% member funded and free of ads, ops, bots, AI slop - we also have no grants, no corporate sponsorships and no wealthy benefactors.
We are working to build systems beyond capitalism, and we still have to pay bills to survive in it.
Thank you for considering investing some of your precious time, attention, energy and resources in Strategy & Solidarity.