Seeing White: Foundations for White Women
Dates: 9 Tuesdays beginning Tuesday, September 17th and ending on Tuesday, November 12th (except Tuesday, November 5th has been moved to Monday, November 4th)
Time: 7:00-8:30pm ET
Location: Virtual
Cost:
Sliding scale $0-$700. No one turned away for lack of funds
Members: $350
Non-members: $700 (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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Conscious Revolution is a Benefit Corporation and a Certified B Corp. Your financial support is making an impact.
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.
Facilitators
Tara Jenkins (she/her)
Principal Consultant & Founder Conscious Revolution
I’ve got a couple of things I’m doing that I’d call my life’s joy (formerly called life’s work). Being a mom to my two kids gives me a chance to directly influence two people that will do great things in this beautiful, chaotic, wild world. Yes!
My life’s joy is also helping leaders build inspiring organizations that they love. There’s no better way to spend precious life time! The unique organizations we create together impact so many people for the better.
I have been told I’m a catalyst for transformation. To do this work I have a commitment to be awake in every aspect of my life, a commitment to equity and abundance, and a vow to be content in being both polished and a messy work in progress.
Witty things make me laugh. Kindred spirits fill me up. I love the sky, trees and water. Ask me to travel, sing, dance, hike, or see live music and I’m immediately in. Skiing and camping are a blast once you’ve started but the prep almost makes me not want to go. Someday I’ll be deeply settled in my body and soul and helping others to do the same.
And yeah, I have all those credentials one typically needs to be declared legit. Twenty-five plus wisdom-building years grinding it out as a global HR leader; Undergrad in Human Resources, Masters in Organizational Development & Leadership, Certifications galore. In 2019, I became one of the world’s first Certified Conscious Capitalism Consultants*.
Our work together will fill everyone, including us, with joy and inspiration. Yes, we can do that! Yes, that’s what we are doing! Join us!
Melea Nalli (she/her) Partner Consultant, & Executive Coach
I’ve been on a 25 plus year professional journey to Conscious Revolution, where I feel a “full body yes” to our purpose, mission and values. I started my career as a special education teacher in the Rio Grande Valley because I was compelled to do something concrete and proactive to advance social justice and teaching felt like one of the most direct ways to respond to this calling. My experience teaching and then coaching other teachers ignited a fire in my belly around the need for systems change within and beyond education. This led me into a variety of leadership roles in national nonprofits that partnered with school systems working towards educational equity and interested in redesigning their practices so that all students can thrive.
After having the opportunity to work with leaders in schools and school systems across the country for more than a decade, I got to work in my community where my own children attend school in what we now call Portland, Maine. Portland Public Schools is the largest and most diverse school district in the state of Maine. I first partnered with the district to write the strategic plan and then went on to serve as the Assistant Superintendent of Teaching & Learning and as interim Co-Superintendent. In all of my roles I have gravitated towards organizational culture and people development work and have found that I feel authentic building and leading teams towards meaningful goals. I believe that positional leadership calls for deep listening, humility, love and a commitment to growing self-awareness as a constant practice. I am ever aspiring to live in alignment with these commitments. As it’s useful to know, I have a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Africana Studies from Bowdoin College and a Masters of Education in School Leadership from Harvard Graduate School of Education, (which I received on a social entrepreneurship fellowship through the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School). I also have various certifications, primarily in the field of education.
My work is an expression of my personal values and I also feel grateful to have a full life outside of my work. I am the mom to two boys and a dog (and I have a (very funny) husband too). I practice meditation and/or yoga daily (and am a trained trauma-informed yoga teacher and used to teach in the youth detention center as a part of a yoga service nonprofit I co-founded). I’m usually reading a minimum of three books (one spiritual, one professional, one mystery). And as a true extrovert (getting more introverted with age though) I love to be with good friends, preferably over a tasty meal or near the water.
My role at Conscious Revolution is to expand our ability to support leaders and organizations in the education sector, in addition to collaborating with the team to support clients across all contexts. I have great respect for all leaders charged with transformational change in their institutions, and I have an especially deep empathy for educational leaders in these unprecedented times. I believe that courageous leaders ask for help and I am so honored to be able to partner with our clients to offer our support.