White Awake Affinity Space
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4th Sunday of the Month - 11:00am-12:30pm PST.
4th Sunday of each month 11:00 AM–12:30 PM PT / 2:00–3:30 PM ET
White Awake is an affinity space for white people within the InterPlay community to practice, learn, reflect, and take action together as we work toward becoming a more brave, radically inclusive, and just community.
This is a space to explore how white dominance and racism show up within ourselves, our relationships, our communities, and the systems in which we participate. Together, we practice noticing patterns, examining assumptions, building our capacity to stay present when discomfort arises, and developing more skillful ways to interrupt racism and contribute to racial justice.
Different facilitators bring their experiences, questions, practices, and learning to our gatherings. We recognize that none of us arrives as an expert. This is an ongoing practice of learning, unlearning, accountability, relationship, and action.
White Awake also provides a place for white people to bring questions, uncertainty, mistakes, and concerns without expecting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) community members to be responsible for our learning.
And because this is InterPlay, we don't only talk.
We move. We tell stories. We notice what our bodies know. We use our voices. We play. We practice together.
Through InterPlay forms and embodied practices, we explore what we may need to release, what we are being called to learn, and how we can better participate in creating communities where dignity, access, belonging, equity, and justice are practiced rather than simply talked about.
White Awake is a place to practice. A place to learn. A place to make mistakes and stay engaged. A place to strengthen our capacity for accountability and repair. A place to help make InterPlay a brave, radically inclusive, and just community, with playshops and spaces where all people can participate and belong.
Stay Connected
Please fill out the InterPlay White Awake Affinity Space Contact List to stay up to date on monthly gatherings: InterPlay White Awake Affinity Space Contact List
Supporting Racial Equity & Transformation
We invite donations as one way of putting our commitment to racial equity into practice. Donations support the Racial Equity and Transformation (RET) Mini-Grants Fund, which financially supports visionary BIPOC leadership, projects, and initiatives.
Donate to the RET Mini-Grants Fund
Our learning is connected to action. Together, we continue practicing how to show up with greater awareness, courage, accountability, and care as we help build the radically inclusive and just InterPlay community we envision.
Cost: This is a free class; donations are appreciated
Registration/Information: You can register by filling out the form in the description. (Check the facebook event listing page for this month's leaders.)
She currently uses performance art, movement, poetry, storytelling and InterPlay to address issues of oppression with women who are incarcerated, people living with severe and persistent mental illness and homelessness. She also works with activists and artists to maintain balance and self-care during these intense times we find ourselves living.
Pivoting with the times, Christine has been called an expert on Zoom and utilizes this online platform to facilitate connection and ease in an online, interactive learning environment.
Christine Gautreaux holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Social Work. She has professional experience with successful grant writing, community organizing and social media marketing. Christine is a life coach for caregivers who are burnt out and ready to take back their own life and make it delightful again. She is the co-author of Stillpoint: A Caregivers Playbook to find ease and to take a deep breath and reclaim joy and Women Connected in Wisdom: Stories and Resources Rooted in the 8 Dimensions of Wellness V. I and V. II