Emotional Resiliency and Accountability Training

Welcome and introduction!

The Emotional Resilience and Accountability Training is a two-part course for white and white-presenting folks to help them stabilize, ground, and fully engage with accountability and movement towards an anti-racist culture.

This professional and personal development opportunity was created for white folks because they are often difficult to talk to when it comes to ways in which white supremacy culture has impacted how they show up in a space. This tendency is a major hindrance to cultural progress and healing.

Designed to mitigate this tendency, you will be guided in this training to do deep introspective work that will heighten your emotional resiliency, a skill that is foundational and necessary to truly move DEI efforts forward.

In this context, emotional resiliency means being accountable for our personal legacy of whiteness—carrying that weight with humble dignity. It means repeated willingness to ride the rapids of emotions, with care of the collective as our priority. 

PART ONE: Self-paced and online, for self-reflection (approximately 30-45 minutes for each module)

  • Module 1: Taking inventory of our personal nervous system tendencies
  • Module 2: Leaning into the truth on how whiteness shows up in us
  • Module 3: Slowing down
  • Module 4: Communication in connection (broken up into two parts)

->Throughout this training there will be regular pauses for embodiment practices and time to process emotions that emerge.

PART TWO: Live, 30-minute 1:1 (one-on-one) Zoom with Ronin, for sharing self-reflections from independent self-paced portion of this course in community (without shame, and in a confidential space)

OPTIONAL DISCUSSION GROUP: Folks who have completed this training will be invited to come together in small groups to connect and share.

->You can access this course forever (please do not share it with other white folks who have not paid the fee).

After the live 1:1 portion (Part 2) of this course, you will receive a certification of completion. 

THANK YOU… to culture-change teachers/healers like Rev angel Kyodo williams, Langston Kahn, Thomas Hübl, and ALOK, to our Apokalypsis Advisory Team, and especially to other folks of color in Eugene who have been willing to share some of their experiences being in community with white folks.

Meet your instructor

Robin “Ronin” Quirke (they/them/elle)

Ronin has a research background in the field of social psychology, and although has worked on important topics like climate change mitigation and political reform, they have come to realize real change requires ditching the patterns of separation and hierarchy, and moving towards connection and humility. They feel the most alive while teaching– whether in a workshop capacity or teaching dance fitness at the University of Oregon, helping people connect with their bodies, true selves, and with each other is Ronin’s jam. You can connect with them directly at ronin@apok-ccrf.org

Let’s get started!

May your experience in this course be rich, and may you receive all you are meant to receive. ♥

Watch the following two videos to get started on this course (do not skip either one– they both contain important material).

Video 1: Welcome!

This first video goes over what you need to support yourself during this training course.

Video 2: Introduction and setting the stage

This second video offers information to set the stage of this course.

Grab a pen and some paper, and click on the button below to move on to Module 1, where you will take inventory of your personal sympathetic nervous system tendencies.

CLICK HERE FOR MODULE 1

Click on the titles below to jump around to other modules:

Email us at info@apok-ccrf if you need support.