This two-hour interactive workshop will consider the strong embodied reactions that sometimes arise within racial justice organizing spaces, how these reactions are connected to unhealed cycles of harm, and how we can acknowledge and learn from them in order to deepen intrapersonal and collective healing, solidarity, and repair. 

Please wear comfortable clothes and come prepared to engage with gentle movement and breathwork. All ages and abilities are welcome.

Copies of White Women, Get Ready will be available for sale. Focused book discussion to follow.

About Amanda K Gross

Amanda K Gross is an intersectional anti-racist organizer, a weaver of people, ideas, and threads, and author of White Women, Get Ready: How Healing Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome Leads to Anti-Racist Change. As a mixed media artist and trained yoga instructor, she integrates creative embodied practices throughout her anti-racist organizing. Amanda is certified at the 200 hour RYT level by YogaRoots On Location’s Anti-Racist Raja Yoga School. She has an MA in Conflict Transformation and a PhD in Expressive Arts.

About the book

Inspired by Dr. Joy DeGruy's work on Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome—and used with her blessing—White Women, Get Ready: How Healing Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome Leads to Anti-Racist Change tells the story of how white ladies have been groomed to uphold overlapping systems of oppression, the harmful multigenerational impact, and how we can use our unique white lady positioning to help upend these violent structures.

This book is one part of a larger body of collaborative work that emerged from the call within Black-led multiracial and multicultural spaces for white people, and white women in particular, to organize our own. Conceived out of multi-racial organizing community, White Women, Get Ready has been nurtured, edited, and critiqued within relationships, and is now being birthed, read, and discussed as one interconnected part of ongoing movement work.