Study Groups for White Folks:
SUMMER and FALL, Options Below
White Facilitators: Abbi Jaffe, Amanda Franz, Hazel Turrone SUMMER June-Aug 2024 Wednesday Evenings 9 WEEK Series Wednesdays 6-7:30pm June 5-Aug 14th, no group July 2 or 24th Location: Hubbard Park Facilitator: Amanda Franz Registration Info:
FALL Oct-Nov 2024 Wednesdays 5:30-7pm 9 WEEK Series Oct 2nd- Nov 27th Location: INDOORS- The Everything Space- 15 State Street #303 Facilitator: Amanda Franz Registration Info:
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Cost: Sliding scale $150-550
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Covid-19 Expectations: For OUTDOOR Sessions: Theses study groups for white folks will occur in-person, outside and physically distanced (unless consent is personally navigated), with 12 people maximum per group. Everyone is required to wear a mask when not able to maintain at least 6 feet distance from other people. Do not attend the study group if you are feeling ill in any way or have been exposed to Covid-19. For INDOOR Sessions: Theses study groups for white folks will occur in-person, inside and physically distanced (unless consent is personally navigated), with 12 people maximum per group. Participants agree to a TEST-to-UNMASK policy. If choosing to not test/unmask, a KN-95 or N-95 mask is required. An air filter will be running. Do not attend the study group if you are feeling ill in any way or have been exposed to Covid-19. |
SUMMER
June-Aug 2024 Pre-registration required by May 28. FALL Sept-Nov 2024 Pre-registration required by Sept 18.
Questions? Please contact the facilitator of the group you are interested in. Amanda: amandamfranz (at) gmail.com. HOMEWORK for first group meeting:
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Meet the Organizers / Facilitators:
Abbi Jaffe / AJ (she/they)
(White, cis-gendered, queer, Jewish, living on unceded Abenaki land in Montpelier Vermont) Abbi is a politicized somatic movement educator/therapist, social worker, trauma informed bodyworker and is training as a Real Dialogue Specialist. Abbi co-runs The Everything Space, a somatics studio dedicated to social and environmental justice in Montpelier Vt. Abbi stewards Reciprocity: Vermont Embodiment Center in Underhill Vt. Abbi co-created and co-teaches the professional development course Growing Resilience: Being Trauma Informed. Abbi is a former Parallel Justice Specialist for Victims of Crime for the City of Burlington. As a long time wilderness guide, Abbi has been leading people on expeditions in the wilderness and within themselves since 2000. Abbi is a certified Somatic Body Practitioner, a certified Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist through ISMETA, and has a Bachelor's of Social Work from the University of Vermont. Learn more here. |
Amanda Franz (they/she)
(White, cis-passing queer, Germanic and Czech ancestry, living as a renter on unceded Abenaki territory in Vermont) Amanda is a politicized somatics educator/therapist, embodiment activist and changemaker working at the intersections of somatics, the trauma informed movement, social justice, environmental justice and cultural co-creation. They/She is a certified Somatic Body Practitioner and is an ISMETA certified Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist, as well as a certified Level II Collab trainer and facilitator. She/They collaboratively run The Everything Space, a somatic education studio weaving together personal growth and dynamic social change, co-creates/facilitates curriculum on Growing Resilience through being Trauma Informed, and co-leads a collective community Garden Project that reimagines community through tending the non-human Alive and growing food and medicine together. Amanda is committed to learning and unlearning the lived and woven places of privilege and oppression, embodied and enacted in each of the sites they hold influence. Guided by their positionality and through trauma informed/resilience oriented, anti-racist and decolonial practices, Amanda is invested in re-culturing whiteness, redistributing power, and re-centering relationship to address the past and present harms they have perpetuated. Her work weaves together many revolutionary forms as threads of a deep listening to the self as body in service of the Great Turning. She holds a BA in Visual Arts from Oberlin College and forever holds the big skies of Missouri (lands of the Osage, Kickapoo, Peoria and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ peoples), the place of her birth, dear to her heart. |
Hazel Turrone (she/they)
(White, European descent) Hazel is a massage therapist in Montpelier VT. The past 25 years of study of alternative healing has led them to get curious about all that our bodies hold and how to support releasing these layers and reconnecting to who we truly are. The study of trauma and ancestral healing are significant threads they continue studying and weaving into their practice. In all the complicatedness of our world and how deeply entrenched the patterns of oppression and disconnection are, how amazing it is that perhaps the most significant work we can do starts right here in the sacredness of our own bodies. |