Power & Equity Challenge Online
Starts February 20th Registration is open!
Pre-requisite Courses: RUP Basics & Core Trainings
The Power and Equity Challenge Online is a 12-week Online, Live Training Program.
This is one of our specialized, advanced training designed for those who have attended the Right Use of Power™ Basics & Core Trainings and want to develop their power-and-equity consciousness with a deep dive into status, collective, and systemic power. This training qualifies as a pre-requisite for the Right Use of Power™ Certification Program.
You will have the opportunity to develop deep connections with other participants as well as have a renewed sense of your own power. The intention is to deepen your roots of personal power so that you can navigate power differentials and better access, develop, and sustain collective power.
What Is Power-And-Equity Consciousness?
Power-and-Equity Consciousness (PEC) is a term refers to the state of awareness of social power dynamics, like those in interpersonal power differentials as well as collective and systemic power, that influence equity in relationship.
Why Do We Need To Develop Our PEC?
Power is present in every relationship. As your PEC develops, you are more capable of seeing power dynamics as they occur, inequities that show up in those power dynamics, and deciphering your responsibilities and vulnerabilities within your relationships.
When you have a framework for understanding power dynamics, the language to talk about it, and the skills to navigate it, you are better resourced for creating and maintaining relationships across difference.
The Schedule
August 29 - November 14, 2024: Every Thursday from 10am - 12pm MST
Weeks 1 & 2
August 29th & September 5th
Building Community
The first two weeks are dedicated to connection: to ourselves, one another and to the lands we occupy. We will share story, build our collective narrative and honor the land that holds us. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.” This challenge is designed to help build Beloved Community where there is mutual belonging, collective care and active responsibility.
Weeks 3 & 4
September 12th & 19th
Cultivating Personal Power
Often we can feel powerless when it comes to navigating relationships with difference. After this training, you will not only know what power you do have, but also how to use that power in ways that can empower others. Knowing your power and the accompanying responsibilities and vulnerabilities that come with it is empowering for you, can minimize harm (misuses/abuses of power), and empowers others.
Weeks 5 & 6
September 26th & October 3rd
Self-Care & Collective Care
We know from our Right Use of Power training that self-care is an ethical imperative. This retreat will create space not only for us to care for ourselves but also the space and support for caring for each other. We will learn what it means to cultivate a practice of collective care and we will take a deeper look at how we care for ourselves. You will leave with a self-care and collective care plan that you can use in your life and communities.
Weeks 7 & 8
October 10th & 17th
Navigating Power Differentials
With the understanding of systemic power, we able to better understand and prepare for the complex power dynamics present in every interpersonal relationship. We'll look at the responsibilities and vulnerabilities in each part of the power differential and address the particular challenges in relationships across differences in power.
Weeks 9 & 10
October 24th & 31st
Accountability in Relationship
As we get into the nuance and complexities of power differential relationships, we'll notice that responsibility - and the lack thereof - is a central determinant for how power gets used. We will look at the myths and norms of responsibility present in dominant culture and then start to learn a "power with" approach to accountability.
Weeks 11 & 12
November 7th & 14th
Collective Power
Collective Power is the only type of power that can shift systemic power. This session explores the different types of collective power, how collective power forms, can be sustainable and ultimately shift systems.
The Facilitators
We are excited to introduce our team of facilitators who are rooted in a Right Use of Power lens and have a great deal of wisdom, experience, skill and passion in the learning session topics.
Dr. Amanda Aguilera
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Dr. Cedar Barstow
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Veronica Borgonovi
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Michelle Cottingham
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Dau Windwater
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Farzin Farzad
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Ready to Go Deeper?
Click on the button to register. We hope to see you there!