EMBRACE: Understanding Your Responsibility in Social Change.

This course is intended to increase self awareness around our privileged identities and examine the opportunities to leverage them with access and influence. Let's learn to become more effective allies and co-conspirators for social justice.

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Social Change

What is our responsibility?

We believe that to strengthen and expand the circle of social justice allies, we must live in support of important issues and leverage our influence and access where we can. This is how we can do the most good. If you want to join in this movement to have impact in a thoughtful and intentional way, we invite you into the conversation.
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  • Recognizing Privilege

    Deepen your capacity to recognize the responsibility and opportunity within their privilege to advance social justice.

  • Skills in Service

    Understand where and how your skills, expertise, access and network are best utilized in service of social change.

  • Dismantling Oppression

    Follow the leadership of impacted communities, then demonstrate (and model) solidarity and allyship with those communities.

Equity-based Sliding Scale Pricing

Our Early Bird Pricing is available for a limited time so don't delay! Centering equity and justice in our content AND our processes, the EMBRACE course offers an equity-based sliding scale for pricing. Please choose the pricing that reflects the access to resources (personal or work based) that you have. CONTRIBUTOR at $497. SUPPORTER at $997 - NOTE: This is the “break-even” cost. For EMBRACE to be sustainable, we need the majority of participants to select this amount or higher. Thank you for enabling us to offer this course at a more accessible rate to others. SUSTAINER at $1,197 - NOTE: You can also choose to make payments if that works better for you.

Group Pricing: 28-70% off

Significant discounts for workplaces and organizations

Are you considering the EMBRACE Course and Community for your Workplace or Organization? Group rates are available at discounts between 28-70% off! To discuss your options, schedule a 30-minute EMBRACE Inquiry Call with Melia TODAY!
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This course was developed to begin (and continue) the conversation around social justice.

If you are an ally or a co-conspirator in social justice, it is likely you are on a journey of self-discovery and awareness. You may be unpacking your thoughts around privilege, oppression, and power. You may have something to say and you probably have things to learn, as we all do. We invite you to join the conversation.
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Embrace

Be a change agent as you Embrace social responsibility in this online 6-month course and community that allows for asynchronous, self-paced learning via eight EMBRACE modules based upon these guiding principles.

  • Equity and Justice

  • Humility and Learning

  • Loving Accountability

  • Joyful Sustainability

WHAT IS EMBRACE?

The EMBRACE Online Course and Community was dreamt up and nurtured upon a vision to strengthen and expand the circle of social justice allies in support of issues they care about. The learning experience asks participants, who wish to strengthen their effectiveness as an ally, to unpack their privilege, thereby recognizing it as BOTH A HINDRANCE when left unexamined AND AN OPPORTUNITY for significant impact when understood (i.e deepened self-awareness and skills!) At that point, participants can leverage their privilege with intention and care in community with others.

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  • This photo is of four facilitators and co-creators of the Embrace course.
  • This photo is of four facilitators and co-creators of the Embrace course.

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Demonstrate and model solidarity and allyship today!

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Come learn with us!

As a team, we share what we've learned (and things we still need to learn) inside this course. We hope our stories of the journey toward greater impact in social justice offer endless options on your own path! We aim to support the development of allies (accomplices, co-conspirators, change agents - whatever language you prefer!) who have the knowledge, self-awareness and skill sets to recognize when, where and how their efforts are most useful and valuable…AND equally important, when, where, and how they are not!
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From Left to Right, Your Facilitators: Tabari, Erin, Jasmine, Sharifa, Jason, Melia, Natalie, Saray

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Course Outline

Self-Paced, Six-Month Online Course and Community

    1. Webinar: Unpacking Privilege, Power and Oppression

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    1. Welcome! We want you to embrace this course!

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    2. Meet Melia

    3. Meet Tabari

    4. Meet Erin

    5. Meet Sharifa

    6. Meet Jason

    7. Meet Saray

    8. Meet Natalie

    9. Meet Jasmine

    10. Credential FREE Introductions - Your Turn!

    11. What you can expect in your EMBRACE experience

    12. Tips for Navigating the THINKIFIC Platform and the EMBRACE Course

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    13. (Optional) Living in the Tension and HOPES of an EMBRACE 2.0

    14. Ready to be ON YOUR WAY!

    15. EMBRACE Glossary

    1. M1 Objectives and Suggested Pacing

    2. Welcome to Module 1

    3. For Your Consideration: Module 1 Grounding Activity

    4. Module 1 Grounding Activity: Survey

    5. Getting clear with Language and Concepts

    6. I Identify: What Forces Determine Your Identity?

    7. Distinguishing between Identity and Personality

    8. Exploring the Question: WHO AM I? Tabari

    9. Exploring the Question: WHO AM I? Melia

    10. The Complexity of Identity, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum

    11. Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum's Key Take-aways

    12. Examining WHERE You Hold Privilege

    13. Examining HOW You Hold Privilege

    14. The M1 Roundtable Experience

    15. IRL Applications - Module 1

    16. Resources for Going Deeper

    1. M2 Objectives and Suggested Pacing

    2. Module 2 Welcome - The "SHOULDS" of Feeling and Being

    3. Your early SHOULDS

    4. For Your Consideration - Module 2 Grounding Exercise

    5. Let's Get More Clarity - Naming Emotions

    6. Naming Emotions Check-in

    7. A Practice for Unpacking Discomfort - Set-up + Scenario 1

    8. A PRACTICE for Unpacking Discomfort - Scenario 2

    9. A PRACTICE for Exploring Discomfort - Scenario 3

    10. Journaling Prompts for the Practice of Exploring Discomfort PDF

    11. Journaling Prompts for the PRACTICE for Exploring Discomfort

    12. Understanding the SOURCE(s) of Discomfort via the Cycle of Socialization

    13. Erin's Model - Cycle of Socialization (socio-economic status)

    14. Melia's Model - Cycle of Socialization (racial identity)

    15. The M2 Roundtable Experience

    16. IRL Applications

    17. Resources for Going Deeper

    1. M3 Objectives and Suggested Pacing

    2. Welcome to Module 3!

    3. For Your Consideration: Module 3 Grounding Activity

    4. M3 For your Consideration Reflection Survey

    5. Defining Resilience

    6. Understanding and Reframing Fragility

    7. Roots and Fears

    8. Evidence Mounts that Mindfulness Breeds Resilience

    9. Mindfulness and Resilience Recap

    10. Compassionate Communication - CONCEPT

    11. M3 The Roundtable Experience

    12. Compassionate Communication - IN PRACTICE

    13. Compassion and Self Care

    14. M3 IRL Applications

    15. M3 Resources to Go Deeper

    1. M4 Objectives and Suggested Pacing

    2. M4 Welcome - Some Bon Jovi inspiration!

    3. Jason's story of A-ha! about Accountability

    4. M4 For Your Consideration - Grounding Quotes

    5. M4 For Your Consideration PDF

    6. Accountability Word Cloud - YOUR ENTRIES

    7. Accountability Word Cloud - COMMUNITY RESULTS

    8. M4 Roundtable Discussion

    9. What do we mean by Accountability?

    10. The Pitfall of Saviorism

    11. An Antidote to Saviorism - The Accountability Spectrum

    12. The Pitfall of Supremacy and a Framework for Liberation

    13. A Case Study on Accountability

    14. Surprise D'oh! moment for Accountability

    15. Analysis of the Case Study (optional)

    16. You GOT this!

    17. Crafting your own Accountability Practice

    18. M4 IRL Applications

    19. M4 Resources to Go Deeper

About this course

  • $1,197.00
  • 138 lessons
  • 16 hours of video content
  • Self-Paced
  • Equity-Based Pricing

Intent VS Impact

The creators of EMBRACE are willing to venture the guess that discrepancies of intent versus impact exist in areas of privileged social identities.

Men may be aiming to be allies for women's equality, straight folks believe they are in solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community, and non-disabled people care about the needs of people with disabilities, among many others. A 2020 survey on allyship* revealed that more than 80% of white employees viewed themselves as allies to people of color in their workplace. On the flip side, 55% of Latinas and 45% of Black women felt they had strong allies at work. When asked who their strongest allies in the workplace were, only 19% of Latinas and 10% of Black women identified white people as their strongest allies. Thus, there appears to be a discrepancy between the intent of white employees in the workplace and the impact of their actions—or inactions.
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