Workshops + Resources
I am a lead teacher with The UNtraining, an organization that works with people to heal personal and social oppression. Find out more at www.untraining.org.
I will be presenting a workshop at the White Privilege Conference in Mesa, Arizona, which takes place April 12-15th. Come be a part of this important racial justice conference!
The Technology of Participation Network (ToPN) is an association that connects and supports facilitators and practitioners in order to improve and expand the use of ToP methods in facilitation. I will be co-presenting an innovative workshop with my beloved colleague, Kathleen Rice, about how White patterned ways of being impact our presence as facilitators. We will present key concepts and offer practices for how to shift these patterns. Find out more about the Annual ToP Network Gathering, which will take place online March 2-3, 2023, here.
I will present the workshop below at this virtual DEIJB Conference on April 4th, 2022.
For social, environmental, racial, service, and educational change makers who want to cultivate self-supportive wellness practices!
About This Event
Are you committed to social, environmental, educational and racial justice, or in a service oriented profession?
Do you often find yourself depleted by the impactful work you do?
The personal is political, and we must be committed to our own holistic wellness, self-love, and personal healing in order to show up powerfully and effectively in the world as changemakers.
Change starts at home and it is absolutely vital that we invest our time and energy in our self nourishment so that we can engage in our service and activist efforts with presence, energy, clarity, compassion, connection, and joy.
In this online workshop, Mollie and Claire will guide participants through a variety of discussions and exercises surrounding self awareness, internal healing, and wellness practices while offering resources to continue your transformational journey in a sustainable way.
Join us as we explore these juicy concepts and cultivate self-supportive foundations!
MOLLIE CRITTENDEN | INTERNAL HEALING & SELF CARE AS THE TRANSFORMATIVE PATH
Mollie Crittenden has worked as an educator at the elementary and high school levels, as an integral life coach, a transformational instructional coach and facilitator for more than twenty years. As a coach and facilitator, she draws from her understanding that our own internal growth and healing process is the key to living into our full potential and leading a life of greater purpose, empowerment, and fulfillment. She infuses her understanding of systemic oppression and intersectional aspects of identity in all the work she does. Mollie engages individuals and groups in a variety of somatic, reflective, integrative, and mindfulness based practices, tools and exercises in order to facilitate concrete and sustained personal and professional transformation. As a single mom, she understands the experience of holding competing priorities in life while staying focused on one’s professional fulfillment. Mollie facilitates with Stanford's Graduate School of Business Women in Management Program, she has presented at the White Privilege Conference and regularly facilitates white affinity groups supporting educators and people in a wide variety of professions to expand their capacity to act as racial justice allies. Mollie is committed to embodying love, compassion, connection and healing in all the work she does. You can find out more about her coaching and facilitation work at www.molliecrittenden.com.
CLAIRE JONES | NOURISHING YOUR MIND WITH THE HEALTHY MIND PLATTER
Claire is the Change Guide for Growth that compassionately supports conscious visionaries as they navigate transitional spaces in their personal and professional lives. As a lifelong student of human behavior, she combines her certification in wellness coaching, certification in NeuroLeadership, BA in Art History, and decade of trauma-informed therapy practices to help her clients cultivate a solid foundation of self care with empowering rituals and elevated wellness practices. You can find out more about her work at www.liminalclarity.com.
Wednesday, April 6, 6-7:30 p.m. PDT, Online
Where Whiteness Intersects With Antiracist Teaching and Learning
Please check out the piece I wrote, which was posted on Teaching While White’s blog, entitled “What’s Love Got to Do with It? Liberating Ourselves from the Ways of White Supremacy”
TEACHWELL Network for Educator Well Being
I will be offering a series for teachers with TeachWell, an organization committed to supporting the holistic wellness of educators. Please see the details and other offerings in the menu below.
The Intersection of Compassion, Connection, Whiteness, and Racial Equity
This 6-week series is for White identified teachers who are motivated to engage in self-focused and internal work in order to transform the way you relate to yourself and others around race and racism. We will work to more effectively hold the complexity of how both our basic goodness and our white racial/social conditioning can manifest in our classroom. Through an exploration of how to cultivate compassion for ourselves and build deeper connections with one another, we strengthen our ability to align our actions with our deepest values as we look at how to create more equitable teaching practices. Participants will first learn capacity building practices, and tools grounded in mindfulness techniques that enable you to move through emotions that can get you stuck as we explore how our actions and inactions may (unconsciously and unintentionally) connect to racism and inequity. We will then examine how our whiteness can show up in our teaching and communication styles while simultaneously holding ourselves and one another in compassion, connection, and community. You will be supported in identifying and beginning to work with a specific aspect of your teaching practice with the intention of creating more equitable social, emotional and/or academic outcomes for your students.
