Rupture and Repair 6-week Cohort
New Orleans and Louisiana have deep histories of extraction and violence that have benefited white wealthy families across the country for generations. We do this work within our local context, to acknowledge the ruptures in this geography, historically and presently, and ask together, what can we do to create sustainable repair?
This six-week series for white people with wealth blends feminist political education, family history research, healing and embodiment work, 1:1 coaching, and leadership development. Participants will learn about how racial and gendered capitalism has shaped our world, our families, ourselves, our relationships and our relationships to giving and money. We will explore the ways that systemic injustice has both benefited and harmed us. The program is oriented toward increasing participants' capacity to hold these truths and act more powerfully, consistently, and joyfully in alignment with our longing for racial, economic, and gender justice. Sign up by March 21st here.
Who is this for?:
White people in New Orleans with access to wealth (current access or anticipated access)
People who have a connection to wealth accumulation in their families, even if you don’t have money now.
If this class speaks to you and you do not fit the descriptions above, please reach out.
Goals:
Create a generative learning environment for wealthy people to explore their relationship to money, wealth, and land.
Build embodied tools to deal with shame, dissociation, fear, distrust of self/others, inaction, and any other behaviors that impact people to align with change
Build a sense of belonging amongst the group
Build political understanding around race, capitalism, gender, and build understanding as to how this relates to participant’s inheritance or earned wealth
Build a community of practice around money and race that can continue to develop in New Orleans
When: Tuesday Evenings, 6-9 CT @ The Workshop, 1764 N Gayoso St.
Spring 6 week Program:
April 4th: Opening Ritual: Sharing family money stories and healing ritual
April 11th: Excavating Family History
April 18th: History of Gendered and Racial Capitalism
April 22nd* (Bonus session): Hidden History Tour with Mr. Leon Waters
April 25th: Creating Repair–Reparations and care for the earth, interdependence
May 2nd: Identity and wealth: What is holding us back from making changes? Where do we source our sense of belonging?
May 9th: Closing Ritual –next steps, being held in community, and transforming harm (3 hours)
* This sessions meets in the French Quarter on Saturday April 22nd from 10-1.