The Emotional Resiliency and Accountability Training (ERAT) is aself-paced and live hybrid course intended to offer white-identifying practitioners skills that improve cultural-awareness when it comes to serving clients and working with coworkers of color. This training will help you stabilize, ground, and fully engage with accountability and culturally humble communication in health and wellness spaces.
This training includes all that is required for cultural competencycontinuing education hours:
Self-awareness and self-assessment of the provider’s beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and values
Knowledge acquisition
Skill acquisition
Educational approaches for acquiring knowledge and skills
Cultural awareness, humility, sensitivity, communication, adaptability, and inclusivity
The ERAT was created for white folks because they are often difficult to talk to about how white supremacy culture impacts the ways they interact with folks of color. This health and wellness-specific course explores how this behavior actualizes in healing and medical settings (from a doctor’s office or massage table to a dance fitness class at a gym).
You will be guided in this training to do deep introspective work that will heighten your emotional resiliency, helping you move beyond the discomfort that makes conversations about racism and whiteness so hard. This work is foundational for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging efforts to truly take root.
In the context of this course, emotional resilience 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: Cultural values awareness
Module 5: 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 discussion group. These 90-minute Zoom discussion groups, facilitated by Ronin, offer a confidential community space with other medical and healing practitioners for self-reflection on the independent self-paced portion. These are an opportunity to connect with others 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.)
Current discussion group options, with new dates being added regularly (participants can join one or all):
April 10, Wednesday, 5:30-7pm
April 24, Thursday, 5:30-7pm
May 4, Sunday, 4-5:30pm
Including the self-paced and live portion, there is the potential to earn two to eight continuing education hours, depending on now many discussion groups you attend. You will need to attend at least one for the certificate of completion.
Cost: $187 (10% goes to our BIPOC Student Youth Grant fund)
Registrants can access the course for as long as YouTube and the internet exist.
THANK YOU… to culture-change teachers/healers such as 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 the instructor
Robin “Ronin” Quirke (they/them/elle)
Ronin has a research background in the field of social psychology, and although they have previously worked on important topics such as 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