The Circle Way - Decolonizing the Way we Meet
Join us online for a 3 - Part Series on November 22, 29 and December 6 • 2021
12:30 pm - 3:00 pm EST
11:30 am - 2:00 pm CST
9:30 am - 12:00 pm PST
*No registration limit.
Recordings will be available to those who register and missed parts or want to review the sessions again.
White supremacy culture is constantly encouraging all of us in all our racial identities to cooperate and collude. Because we all live in this white supremacy culture, these characteristics have the potential to show up in the attitudes and behaviors of all of us, particularly as we strive to survive and gain a foothold in institutions and fields that either overtly or covertly adopt white supremacy culture values. -- Tema Okun, White Supremacy Culture - Still Here, May 2021
In this 3-part online series we will be focusing on the decolonizing components of circle that pivot away from white supremacy culture's pace of urgency; transactional meeting cultures; and fear of open conflict and the right to comfort.
Who is this for?
Anyone who is curious about recognizing white supremacy culture in meetings and inviting in decolonizing practices that shift us towards cultures of learning, growth, and grace.
This offering is a fundraiser for The Circle Way non-profit. Suggested donation $149 - $249+. Your generosity will support grants for new circle initiatives and more, as The Circle Way continues to grow awareness and articulation of Circle as a decolonizing practice.
The Circle Way is a registered 501c3, non-profit organization (EIN 31-1624092). Financial donations to The Circle Way are tax-deductible in the United States.
The Circle Way unequivocally affirms the essential practice of turning to one another to uphold racial, ethnic, gender, disability, economic, and environmental justice. We can imagine a different way.
Your Hosts
Chantilly Mers-Pickett (she/hers) is a Pasifika minister, justice educator, and circle practitioner. Born and raised in Maui, Hawaii, a daughter of immigrants, she moved to New York City to study Theology and the Arts at Union Theological Seminary. Today she co-organizes a beautiful faith community, Common Ground Collective, in Manhattan and collaborates with What’s Next Now? a team of racial equity consultants. She is passionate about reclaiming ordinary spaces for emergence and radical togetherness. A learner of living systems, permaculture, and Indigenous wisdom, Chantilly lives and tends a garden in Bloomfield, NJ (Lenape Land) with her multigenerational ‘ohana made up of her parents, spouse, two daughters, and their 7 tropical plants.
Nancy Fritsche Eagan (she/hers) LMSW, is a second generation Irish American raised in New York City with a career as a social worker in child welfare and justice programs. She formed People Potential as a consulting group to foster participatory leadership, organizational development and project management. Today she is part of What’s Next Now? where she promotes her commitment to raise race equity as a core conversation in organizations. Nancy is a steward of the Art of Hosting and a board member of The Circle Way. She also works in appreciative inquiry, open space, world café, storytelling, and project management. Nancy applies the Sanctuary Model® and other trauma informed practices to interrupt harm and promote healing. She hails from Brooklyn and is an avid bicyclist and photographer.
Your Tech Host: Amanda Fenton (she/hers) designs and hosts participatory processes to spark new thinking, foster collaborative leadership, navigate uncertainty and possibility, accelerate learning, and move to wiser action. She is a circle practitioner and co-teacher teacher of The Circle Way and the Art of Hosting. Part of her "deeper yes" is journeying alongside others who use these participatory processes to decentre whiteness, redistribute power in more equitable ways, and work in service of greater equity and justice. Amanda lives on the territory of the Qayqayt in what is now known as New Westminster, BC with her partner and their rescue Great Dane, Bruce.