Race-Based Equity Services

Educator of Color Webinars

EDUCATOR OF COLOR SUPPORT SERIES

These spaces provide support for educators of color within the BIPOC community. The drop-in webinars address common challenges faced in professional settings such as microaggressions, invisibility, and dismissiveness, while also focusing on reclaiming racial identity and embracing creativity for healing. Participants engage in healing practices and receive strategies to overcome these challenges, promoting resilience and empowerment. Sessions are open to all Educators who identify with the BIPOC community.

  • Monthly Drop-In Webinars

Healing Spaces for Educators of Color (Virtual Drop-In)

EDUCATOR OF COLOR SUPPORT SERIES

These spaces are designed for people of color to come together online, offering community support and fostering healing. Racial Healing Spaces focuses on addressing racialized trauma and the challenges of balancing community-based, social justice, and educational responsibilities. Participants engage in confidential discussions exploring racial identity's impact on their professional roles, understanding racism as trauma, and collective healing. The goal is to empower attendees to sustain race-based equity work in their school/ district communities and address challenges related to social justice.

  • Sessions last one hour and are held via Zoom on a monthly or bi-monthly basis.

Racial Affinity Teacher of Color Facilitator Sessions

EDUCATOR OF COLOR SUPPORT SERIES

Our Healing Spaces for People of Color are facilitated by our Co-Founder Dr. Eleonora Cahill, in collaboration with co-facilitators from our pool of BIPOC staff and faculty. The intention of these spaces is for people of color to come together to create community care and support one another. These spaces include Racial Healing Circles, Racial Healing Coaching, and the Black Educator Wellness Cohort, and can be implemented independently or in combination with other trauma-informed service offerings.

  • Facilitator Sessions are customizable in both frequency and duration.

White Allyship Affinity Spaces (Drop-in or Cohort)

EDUCATOR OF COLOR SUPPORT SERIES

These spaces aim to empower white allies to actively combat racism. Topics covered include understanding the history of whiteness and racism, learning skills to address racial microaggressions and verbal abuse, supporting individuals of color, and managing white racial stress in conversations and actions.

  • Sessions last one hour and can be drop-in or closed group sessions with a limit of 10 participants.

Administrator of Color Healing Intensive (A Two-Part Series)

INTENSIVE EXPERIENCES FOR EDUCATORS

The curriculum for this two-part series employs circle work to prioritize healing from racial trauma, enhance resilience, and create spaces where Black, Indigenous, and people of color can authentically engage in storytelling, communal healing, and rediscover joy. These sessions integrate healing justice practices and techniques for addressing interpersonal, intrapersonal, and transgenerational trauma to promote holistic healing of the mind, body, and spirit. Participants will have opportunities for individual and collective healing through inquiry, reflection, body-based practices, group sharing, and storytelling.

  • This series consists of two day-long retreat sessions (8:30am-4:00pm). Sessions occur ~4-6 weeks apart to allow time for personal reflection, processing, and completion of intersession assignments. This series is specifically designed for Administrators/School Leaders of Color.

Black Educator Wellness Cohort

INTENSIVE EXPERIENCES FOR EDUCATORS

The Black Educator Wellness Cohort is a year-long, intensive, in-person program that specifically supports Black educators who experience racial stress and trauma daily, to increase their capacity to address and heal from this racial trauma, to support their social and emotional well-being, and to retrain educators of color to promote more equitable learning environments for youth.

  • This cohort is for educators who identify as Black, African American, or Descendants of Enslaved Peoples, and convenes monthly for workshops and healing circles and closes with a weekend retreat.

New Educators of Color Reflective Consultation

INTENSIVE EXPERIENCES FOR EDUCATORS

Designed for educators of color in their 1st through 3rd, year, our New Educators of Color Reflective Consultation supports new educators to increase their self-awareness, cultivates opportunities to engage in collective learning about issues most challenging to new educators, and provides strategies to cope with the stressors that may manifest as an educator of color.

  • Sessions meet monthly from September through May and may be offered virtually or in person.

Racial Healing Retreat for Mental Health Staff of Color

INTENSIVE EXPERIENCES FOR EDUCATORS

This day-long retreat provides a trauma-informed, healing space for participants to explore and process their thoughts, feelings, and emotions related to their racial identity and racialized experiences that occur both in the course of their work as mental health providers and in their personal lives. Participants engage in racial storytelling, trauma-informed yoga, art-based practices, community altar building, and meditation-based practices to promote connection and healing.

  • This retreat is for mental health professionals of color working in PreK-12 school communities.

Admin of Color Assistant Principals Small Group Reflective Consultation

LEADERSHIP CONSULTATION & SUPPORT

Trauma-informed, equity-centered reflective consultation aims to bolster the leadership skills of new Assistant Principals of color while supporting their professional growth. This consultative relationship serves as a learning journey, helping participants navigate the intense emotions and stresses inherent in assuming a new leadership role in education, especially as individuals of color. It focuses on enhancing self-awareness, a crucial skill for these leaders to sustain their work joyfully and effectively serve their school communities.

  • These sessions cater to Assistant Principals of Color in their first or second year of leadership.

1:1 Individual Leadership Consultation

LEADERSHIP CONSULTATION & SUPPORT

Executive Leadership consultation provides crucial support for individuals in leadership roles, including Administrators of Color. Consultants serve as both sounding boards and guides, aiding in synthesis, direction, and leadership development. This consultation directs attention to leadership qualities, helps clients identify barriers, and offers strategies to overcome them. Sessions cover planning, education, and motivation. Resilient Futures' leadership consultation is grounded in a trauma-informed, equity-centered, anti-oppression framework, acknowledging how our identities and experiences shape our lives.

  • For Administrators of Color, individual consultation addresses the unique needs for nurturing and sustaining leadership in challenging roles. Consultative Sessions can be scheduled at the participant’s convenience and can be as frequent as desired.

Racial Healing Strengthening Family Coping Resources Program

LEADERSHIP CONSULTATION & SUPPORT

The Racial Healing SFCR Series is a deliberate adaptation of the SFCR Peer-to-Peer model including the use of racial healing activities and affinity spaces. Rooted in the understanding that racial trauma affects not only individuals but entire families and communities, this program empowers participants to develop resilience-building practices that foster healing, disrupt cycles of transgenerational trauma, and promote racial healing. Our Racial Healing SFCR groups utilize Healing Justice: a framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene in generational trauma and violence, offering collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts, and minds.

  • Goals of this program:

    Offer a much-needed alternative to formal mental health programs for those who are resistant to traditional care due to experiences of racial trauma or stress.

    Support parents and caregivers to develop healthy, resilience-building practices to strengthen their relationships, develop positive coping skills, disrupt cycles of transgenerational trauma, identify racial trauma and its impact, and promote racial healing for oneself and one’s family.

    Cultivate healing spaces that allow participants to be restored to wholeness so that they can experience joy, gratitude, and hope.

    Facilitator skills/Competencies:

    Sessions are led by Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color who have been trained and prepared in trauma-informed, equity-focused strategies

    Facilitators are parents and caregivers who have begun their own journey of racial healing

    Willingness to engage in personal social-emotional wellness and attend reflective supervision sessions

    Key highlights of the training series include:

    1. Sharing Our Untold Stories: Participants are invited to share their personal narratives and experiences in a supportive group setting to be met with validation and understanding.

    2. Identifying Racial Trauma within Family Histories: Through guided reflection and dialogue, participants explore the intergenerational impact of racial trauma on their family histories.

    3. Grieving Racial Trauma: Through guided discussions and reflective exercises, participants are led through the process of acknowledging and grieving the impact of racial trauma on their lives and the lives of their families.

    4. Healing from Microaggressions: Participants learn how to recognize and respond to microaggressions, building resilience and fostering collective healing.

    5. Versatile Healing Practices: Recognizing the importance of self-care in the healing journey, participants explore strategies for prioritizing rest and rejuvenation in their daily lives. Examples of specific practices include Moving toward Wholeness to establish pathways toward healing and wholeness and drawing on inner strengths and resources to navigate challenges and setbacks. We’ll discuss Embracing Chosen Family where we lean into supportive networks of trusted peers to help foster a sense of belonging and solidarity, and cultivating self-compassion through Self-Gratitude as a Healing Practice, empowering participants to embrace their worth and value. We’ll ask participants to Embrace Creativity by exploring artistic and expressive modalities to process their experiences and more.

    Racial Healing SFCR groups prioritize supporting participants as individuals first, recognizing that healing begins from within. As participants cultivate their own resilience and well-being, they are better equipped to support their families and communities on the path toward racial healing and reconciliation.

  • Duration: Spanning 6 to 12 sessions, each approximately 75 minutes long