Liberated is an online experience created for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) to find freedom and community in liberating themselves from oppressive systems. This new training is a result of multiple requests from BIPOC at past trainings who expressed a desire for more race-based affinity spaces focused on healing, learning and networking.

Join us for a four-part cohort series where  BIPOC will have an opportunity to commune and converse around topics that aren't often highlighted in the inclusion and equity trainings that we attend. Let's talk about colorism. Let's talk about sexism within racial minority groups. Let's talk about how erasure, anti-blackness, and white supremacy and how these issues show up in ALL of our communities. Let's examine and uproot the ways in which white supremacy is showing up in our personal and professional contexts, and reorient toward liberation. This training draws from Building Bridges' conflict transformation model, and pulls from facilitators' lived experiences as BIPOC individuals.  

To attend, you must have completed a Groundwork Session, and filled out an application. Please contact Jenny (event organizer) directly for more information. jenny@buildingbridgesshift.org

Please make sure you can attend all four of the dates!

DATES:  3pm - 5pm Mountain Standard Time, Online Session

(2-4pm Pacific, 3-5pm MST, 4-6pm Central, 5-7pm Eastern)

- October 29th

- November 12th

- December 3rd

- December 10th

Training Takeaways: 

• Gain new insights around what it means to be a racialized being and how this connects to white supremacy

• Gain anti-oppression frameworks and resources

• Engage in dialogues centered in conflict transformation with other BIPOC community members

• Build concrete listening and communication skills for both personal and professional settings

• Explore your internal identities and how they connect to external systems 

  • What does it mean to be a Black or Indigenous person, or person of color?

  • What role do I have in larger systems of oppression and in dismantling white supremacy?

  • What are my other intersectional identities and how do they relate to privilege, oppression and white supremacy?

Why a Cohort Model?

We are so excited to offer Liberated in online format and in a cohort model!  We believe that meeting together in a group/affinity/caucus of BIPOC for the four sessions together will increase and clarify our will, skill and capacity to engage as liberated leaders for the long haul. The cohort model also is designed to build a community of people that can stay connected in the movement of justice, long after the cohort officially ends. 

Click here for details on our cancellation policy.