
Moving from White Defensiveness to Racial Resilience: An Introduction
with Lane Arye, PhD
3 hour Live Course & Access to the recording
Included with Membership

If you desire a better world and want to grow your heart, this class is for you.
You WILL Learn how to:
- Identify kinds of white defensiveness and their causes
- Notice somatic (body) manifestations of your own defensiveness
- Practice somatic- and compassion-based resilience tools
- Live and practice according to your deepest values
- Grow your heart

"Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters." Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Discussion
This class is coming in 2023. Sign-up for the newsletter to find out when it’s scheduled.
What supports well-meaning, open hearted white people, like me and you, to live according to our values and be constructive partners in racial dialogue? There are many answers, including clear understanding of the privileges of whiteness and the racial socialization that affects the way we think, feel, and interact.
Even when our thinking minds are on board, we white people often get defensive in tough racial conversations (or even normal conversations with People of Colour).
This experiential workshop is a chance to notice our visceral and emotional defensiveness, and to learn & try simple and powerful practices to help us move toward racial resilience. You will learn to stay grounded and present, to hold the experience and the full expression of People of Colour. These skills enable us to live our values and help create a more just and equitable world.
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About Your Teacher
Lane Arye
PhD, Dip PW
FACILITATOR, TRAINER, AUTHOR
Lane Arye, Ph.D. Lane Arye, Ph.D. is a senior trainer and facilitator of Processwork (developed by Arnold Mindell). Lane has facilitated conflicts between Aboriginal and European Australians, and between Dalits (so-called untouchables) and high-caste Hindus in India.
In Oakland, CA, he facilitated and helped resolve a long-standing conflict between then-mayor (later governor) Jerry Brown and an African American cultural center.
Lane co-led a six-year UN-funded project in the Balkans that brought together Serbs, Croats, and Muslims to work on ethnic tension, post-war trauma, and building sustainable community.
He is an active member of the Racial Justice Collaborative, a dynamic, Black-led organization deeply inspired by Processwork.
Lane is the author of the chapter “The Vicious Cycle of White Centrality” in Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy’s latest book, The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness.
areas of expertise
- Advanced Facilitation Training
- Racial Justice and Reconciliation
- Advanced Therapist Training

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This will be a live course taught by Lane Arye.
Included is a 3-Hour Live Course & Access to the recording.
It will be highly participatory, learn and practice new skills!
