Emotional Resilience and Accountability Training

For Educators

Welcome and introduction!

The Emotional Resilience and Accountability Training is a self-paced and live hybrid course intended to help white-bodied and white-presenting educators stabilize, ground, and fully engage with accountability and movement towards anti-racist schools.

This professional and personal development opportunity was originally created for white folks because they are often difficult to talk to about how white supremacy culture impacts the ways they show up. The educator-specific course adds additional context about how this behavior actualizes in educational settings, both classrooms and administrative offices. This training seeks to move beyond the discomfort that makes conversations hard, overcoming a major hindrance to cultural progress and healing.

Designed to mitigate these tendencies, 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 diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging efforts forward.

In this context, emotional resiliency means being accountable for the collective, familial, and 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. 

SOLO SELF-PACED PORTION: Self-paced and online, for self-reflection (approximately 30 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 (Part 1 and Part 2)

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

COMMUNITY-BUILDING LIVE PORTION: Every participant will be asked to sign up for at least one live educator discussion group. These 90-minute Zoom discussion groups, facilitated by Ronin, offer a confidential community space with other educators for self-reflection on the independent self-paced portion. These are an opportunity to connect with other educators who are embarking on this same journey. **There will be various days and times offered on a regular basis to make sure everyone gets a chance to join at least one group.

Including the self-paced and live portions, there is the potential to earn three and a half (3.5) to eight (8) professional development credit hours, depending on now many discussion groups you attend (you will need to attend at least one).

After attending at least one group discussion, you will receive a certification of completion. 

Registrants can access the course for as long as YouTube and the internet exist.

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! (And what you’ll need.)

Video 2: Introduction and setting the stage

Before you dig in…

Please fill out the form found here to sign up for one or more group discussions. This will give you a deadline for yourself to complete the self-paced portion of this course. You will receive a confirmation email, along with a Zoom link for the gathering.

If these dates don’t work for you or you end up needing to change your chosen date, let Ronin know at ronin@apok-ccrf.org. We will have ongoing opportunities to join discussion groups!

You’re all set to get to the good stuff!

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.