Our Liberation Is Linked: Practices for Embodied Racial Justice Learning
In this 90-minute experiential session, Ginny McGinn, Executive Director of the Center for Whole Communities, and Sonali Sangeeta Balajee, founder of the Our Bodhi Project, will lead us on an exploration of a variety of restorative and critical thinking tools we can use to help cultivate our capacity for embodied racial justice learning. Drawing from an array of art-, awareness-, and inquiry-based practices, Sonali and Ginny will invite us to go beyond more traditional forms of racial justice learning to work with practices designed to help us plant the seeds within ourselves for genuine liberation, wholeness and connection to the Earth. NOTE: This session is intended for change-makers with some working knowledge of anti-racist frameworks; and there will be space for Black, Indigenous and other Peoples of Color and white folks to participate.
December 5th | 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Panelists
Ginny McGinn
Executive Director, Organizational Development and Strategy
Center for Whole Communities
Ginny McGinn, Executive Director, Organizational Development and Strategy, at the Center for Whole Communities, has long been deeply involved in social and organizational change work and in building partnerships across lines of power and privilege. Previously President of Bioneers, Ginny facilitates and consults on organizational change around the country, using the Whole Thinking Practices and the tools she and her colleagues have helped evolve at Center for Whole Communities.
Sonali Sangeeta Balajee
Founder
The Bodhi Project
Sonali Sangeeta Balajee is the founder of Our Bodhi Project, which promotes practices at the intersection of Belonging, Organizing, Decolonizing, Health, and Interconnectedness. Sonali previously spent 13 years in government in Portland, OR, leading equity-based projects, has been an activist in HIV/AIDS work, environmental justice, and racial equity for 30 years, has 20 years’ experience in dance and music performance and 35 years’ practicing yoga and mindfulness.
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