The Curriculum for Diversity Consciousness
ReMember Institute is excited to offer our applied diversity training series offerings for 2019!
This series is designed for non-BIPOC healers, teachers, and life coaches, but is beneficial to all persons racialized as white or white passing.
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HEAL THYSELF FOR INDIVIDUALS
HEAL THYSELF FOR ORGANIZATIONS
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TESTIMONIALS:
"Reverend Brig is a clear and compassionate channel directly to our collective ancestors, and to the collective trauma of 400 years of African American experience. Her unique gift is her almost superhuman combination of wisdom, insight, humor, and compassion that is completely absent from mainstream white society.
Reverend Brig utilizes a wide variety of learning technologies to educate and empower; including gut-wrenching coursework, videos, and essays, guest lectures, group activities and discussions, service projects, and social media engagement, as well as meditations and mindfulness exercises. She has profound insights and explanations for the ways racism manifests and impacts our daily lives, including the ways that hatred and violence impact us over multiple generations, manifesting in neurological disorders and autoimmune disease for the descendants of slaves.
To learn from Reverend Brig is also much more an academic experience. She holds her own life and work in white spiritual communities up for inspection and invites us to feel the very, very human impact of daily racism on her life, and our own. This is personal, holistic, and emotion-driven work, as it should be.
Reverend Brig has a deep and abiding patience for this work, a unique willingness to engage in its messy realities, a wellspring of compassion and a vision for bringing it to white communities. In teaching us about power, racism, and spirituality she does not foster shame, but rather cures us of it; empowering us to liberate ourselves, to grow and to thrive. Reverend Brig lifts the veil. She heals. She inspires nothing short of awe. "
~Mischa Byruck, founder of Evolve Men, recent graduate of Heal Thyself, the first intensive in ReMember Institute's Curriculum for Diversity Consciousness series. (Mr. Byruck has written an article reviewing the course here.)
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"It was during a course Brig taught that I realized the prescience of her name. I have always been a person who plays by the rules, knows the right things to do and say, and does and says them. I was raised in a progressive, well-educated, open, loving family, and hated the impact I saw racism and sexism having on our world. I also knew that I got anxious around African-Americans. I knew that I gave less weight to my friends' opinions if they were women. I had all these internal reactions that didn't line up with what I intellectually believed, and I had no where to talk about it. Where am I, a straight, white, well-educated man going to go to say, "I'm having some feelings. I don't really trust people who don't look like me and I'm dismissive of women."?
Enter Brig. She created a space that was not only safe for me to raise feelings I wish I didn't have, but where I was supported by other participants for sharing them. She used it as a clear demonstration of oppression hurting everyone, opened dialogue, and freed me from carrying this in silence. It was the beginning of my reconciling and the ongoing process of undoing my racism, my sexism. In a time of division, she built a bridge."
~Dr. Ben Emmert-Aronson, director and co-founder of Open Source Wellness
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