For white-identifying health and wellness practitioners
Welcome and introduction!
The Emotional Resiliency and Accountability Training (ERAT) is a self-paced course intended to offer white-identifying practitioners skills that improve cultural-awareness when it comes to serving clients of racial and ethnic identities different than one’s own. This training will help you stabilize, ground, and fully engage with accountability and communication in health and wellness spaces.
This training offers three hours of continuing education credit in cultural competency and/or ethics for professionals working in health and wellness settings with individuals or groups.
THE WHY
The ERAT was created for white folks because they are often difficult to talk to about cultural racism and race, and ways in which they sometimes unintentionally perpetuate racialized systems of harm, thereby negatively affecting stress levels, mental health, and physical health outcomes for folks of color. These impacts, in turn, exacerbate inequities in the social determinants of health (Racism as a determinant of health and health care; How Does Racism Make You Sick? ).
Although this course will likely benefit many relationships in your life, it is a training that will contribute to your ethical and legal obligations to support clients in their health and wellness paths. This training will help you with your commitment to do no harm, as well as build trust and rapport with clients, countering the history of harms in medicine and wellness industries (Medical Racism in History, Structural Discrimination in Physical Education).
THE WHAT
This training will set you up to be more open and attuned to cultural considerations and to recognizing different life experiences, increasing your ability to be a more racially sensitive, culturally aware, and trauma-informed compassionate listener when assessing client needs.
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 can make conversations about racism and whiteness more stressful than it needs to be.
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. For those of us in Oregon, this is especially important work considering the first occupiers intended this area to be a “white utopia,” a history that impacts our communities still to this day (History of Race and Medicine in Oregon, Oregon Black History with Walidah Imarishi).
This is a foundational course for cultural competency because building emotional resilience and self-awareness reduces the likelihood of relational, systemic, and cultural racism, and creates an environment that is more welcoming to clients and co-workers of cultures and/or racial identities you do not share.LOGISTICS
Each module takes about 30 minutes to complete, with the full training—including the introduction and quiz—taking approximately 3 hours in total.
It is recommended to do no more than one module in a day to allow the practices and reflections to soak in.
- 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.
–>You earn your certification of completion, along with the 3 hours of continuing education after you: complete (1) the four modules, and (2) the quiz at the end. You can take the quiz as many times as you need to pass. After you complete the quiz, you will receive your certificate of completion within 24 hours.
–> Participants are encouraged to keep a log of client sessions to gauge if this training increases your effectiveness in assessing needs, resulting in better health and wellness results.
–> Registrants can access this course for as long as YouTube and the internet exist.
COMMUNITY-BUILDING: Every participant will be invited to optional live discussion groups. These 90-minute Zoom discussion groups, facilitated by Ronin, offer a confidential community space with other wellness practitioners for self-reflection on the independent self-paced portion. These are an opportunity to connect with others who have completed this training course.
THANK YOU… to culture-change teachers/healers like Rev angel Kyodo williams, Langston Kahn, Resmaa Menakem, 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, 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
OK, now that you are ready to 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.
- 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
- Module 4: Communication in connection – Part 2
Email us at info@apok-ccrf if you need support.