Seeing White: Foundations for White Women
Date: 9 Wednesdays, September 17 through November 12
Time: 7-8:30pm ET
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Location: Virtual
Cost:
Sliding scale $0-$500. Everyone welcome, no one turned away for lack of funds
Members: $250
Non-members: $500 (tiered pricing available)
Program Description: Conscious Revolution’s Seeing White: Foundations for White Women, is a 9-week community cohort designed for individuals identifying as White women. Participants will develop a structural analysis of race, while conditioning the mind and body to further commit to racial equity. We’ll examine White women’s alignment with power structures that perpetuate patriarchy and racism, from slavery to the meme Karen. Foundations offers a unique exploration into the role and opportunity for White women to contribute to building anti-racist organizations and solidarity movements.
Conscious Revolution is offering White Women Foundations as a complement to White Men for Racial Justice’s Seeing White: WMRJ Foundations 101 cohort offering. WMRJ and Conscious Revolution have been partnering together to bring this program to individuals identifying as White women.
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Most programs have a set fee. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. In the case of tiered pricing programs, you will see the below options when you go to purchase.
Full sponsor: I have the ability to pay 100% of cost for of the facilitator and course fees and sponsor 100% for someone else
Partial sponsor: I have the ability to pay 100% of cost for of the facilitator and course fees and sponsor 50% for someone else
Full payment: I have the ability to pay 100% of cost for of the facilitator and course fees
Partially supported payment: I have a financial hardship and I am the ability to pay 50% of cost for of the facilitator and course fees
Fully supported payment: I have a financial hardship and I am unable to contribute financially.
We ask you to consider: What is the right amount for you? What are your financial means? Can you offer more so another person can join offerings in the Conscious Leadership Community? The majority of the program fee goes to paying facilitators to compensate for their contributions. Excess funds, if any, support making our future programs and events accessible to all those who would like to attend regardless of their ability to pay.
We do not want anyone to be turned away due to lack of resources and we intend for our offerings to be accessible to all leaders. We are also committed to fostering a community that is diverse and balanced. Need-based scholarships are typically reserved for BIPOC, LGBTQ+ folks and applicants from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
We do our best to find agreeable solutions for all, and though we cannot accommodate every request, we will always do our best, so please let us know what you may need.
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Facilitators
Margot Fine (she/her) Partner Consultant, & Conscious Leadership Community Lead
I’m Margot, a community weaver, advocate for radical transformation, and lifelong learner. My roots stretch from a third-generation New York lineage with Russian and Polish ancestry to the place we now call Portland, Maine—where I’ve spent over 20 years building connections and nurturing community. I find joy in walking by the ocean with my partner, learning alongside my kids, playing in the garden, creating art, and making soup without recipes.
I’m shaped by my work as a co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Maine Inside Out, an organization I helped bring to life that uses theater as a tool for social change, centering people most directly impacted by incarceration. In my role as Co-Executive Director, I worked collaboratively across different identities, guiding the organization’s vision, strategic planning, and operational growth. I also nurtured MIO’s sustainability framework, focusing on non-traditional governance and shared decision-making processes. Throughout my career, I’ve worked within organizations and systems, fostering change on issues such as food sovereignty, incarceration, youth resiliency, and alternatives to exclusionary practices. My experience includes working on large-scale political campaigns and alongside government systems, advocating for inclusivity and responsiveness at every level.
In addition to my organizational work, I am passionate about facilitating groups and curating transformative experiences that empower individuals and communities. I aim to bring people together in meaningful ways, creating spaces where people can learn, be heard, be held, and grow—whether in a workshop, a retreat, or a collective action.
While my journey has been shaped by hands-on, organizational experience, I also graduated from Bates College, received a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Southern Maine and have a Clinical Social Work License. These academic experiences have provided me with useful tools that complement my practical work and deepen my understanding of collective healing and change.
I approach leadership with a focus on trust, collaboration, and growth, and I am committed to fostering spaces where people can evolve individually and collectively. My work continues to be driven by a desire to support lasting change and ongoing evolution, whether that’s with individuals, organizations, communities, or systems.
When I’m not working, you can find me outside, connecting with the natural world and finding joy in the simple acts of creating, collaborating, and being as present as possible in the moment.
Elizabeth Guman (she/her), Tapestry Facilitator
I’m Elizabeth. Key themes to my career are facilitating learning spaces for adults and leading
planning efforts for mission-driven organizations and cross-sector collaboratives. I live in the
community in which I grew up, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia. My
ancestors are primarily from England, Scotland and Germany, with many immigrating here as
Quakers in the 1600s. I have two adult children who live in New England, and I travel there
often to spend time with them and their partners.
I have worked for many years as a consultant, first independently and then as a co-owner of a
small consulting firm. My work includes strategic planning, leadership development programs,
and nonprofit board development. I have been able to specialize in cross-sector coalitions,
helping to guide numerous collective impact and cross-sector collaboratives both in Philadelphia
and nationally. Through this work I have been able to help clients integrate equity as part of their
framework to specifically reduce racial disparities. I have had the opportunity to lead clients,
other B Corps, and other groups in actively unlearning white fragility and practicing anti-
oppressive strategies.
My father worked at our “hometown bank” and I saw early on the interconnectedness of the
community and had a wonderful role model of a community-focused business person. That
legacy led me to a commitment to a movement of businesses being a force for good. When B
Corps were established in 2007 our consulting firm, Strategy Arts, was one of the founding
companies to go through the certification process of meeting standards for social and
environmental performance. I have continued to be an active participant in the B Corp
movement, including serving on the Philadelphia B Local board.
That passion for community also translated to many volunteer opportunities. I recently
completed nine years of service on the Board of Barclay Friends, a Quaker continuing care
community and where I was the Chair for two years. Other past board service includes the
Sustainable Business Network of Philadelphia (co-chair), the Great Valley International Society
of Performance and Instruction (chair), the First Presbyterian Church of West Chester and the
West Chester Rotary Club. I am also a practicing Christian and am active in my church.
Currently I am leading a partnership ministry with a sister church in Guatemala and I am serving
as a leader for our middle and high school Youth.
My foundation for my professional work is a BA in Business Management from the College of
William & Mary and an MEd in Instructional Design from Penn State University. My love of
teaching led me to a facilitation role with the Communications Program for the University of
Pennsylvania’s Wharton MBA and Executive MBA programs, the graduate program of
Instructional Design and Development at Penn State Great Valley and in the graduate business
school at West Chester University.
My current learning focus is about how to deepen my own humanity and our collective
humanity. Two main ways I’m doing that are through my faith practice and my antiracist work.
When I’m not working, I love to read, do jigsaw puzzles and take long walks with my husband,
my friends and my dog. And I’m always up enjoying fellowship over coffee or tea or a meal!