Cultural Mindfulness Training
In 6 weeks, learn to address and begin to heal the impact of racism and bias on you and your clients.
What to Expect
Gain a deep understanding of what cultural mindfulness is and how to embody it in thought, speech and action.
Learn what racialized trauma is and its impact on the nervous system, performance and quality of life.
Learn to ground yourself and your clients in their bodies when racialized trauma surfaces.
Utilize mindfulness, to identify, reflect, and eradicate internal racialized trauma in yourself and clients.
Learn to participate in conversations around systemic oppression in a way that is productive and compassionate to your nervous system.
Learn to mitigate harm caused by being mindful of the impact of rasicm on you and your clients while holding compassion.
This training is designed for
Those with previous experience and/or training in a helping field: therapists, coaches, yoga instructors, and wellness practitioners are a few examples.
Week 3
The Program
Inside Out Change
At Mindlight, we believe that our internal world creates our external world. Our internalized racism, bias, unexamined trauma and fear perpetuate social injustice in our audience and communities and in the world. When we have an honest relationship with ourselves and meet our internal divides with compassion they dissolve and we can treat ourselves and others with respect and love. We can then hold a tighter and just container for our clients from our new found internal alignment.
Witness others experience
This practice will help you to become more empathetic to yourself, towards people who come from similar cultural backgrounds with similar skin and help to rehumanize those who come from very different cultural backgrounds with different looking bodies.
Even practitioners trained in holding space for others can have patterned responses when another is sharing their experience. When we listen to a white bodied person share about their bias, we might feel hurt, angry or judgmental. When we are listening to the experience of being a black bodied person, we might feel hopeless, guilty or validated. These are just a few examples.
This aspect of the class supports us in being able to listen and focus on the shifts we can make inside of ourselves.
Mindfulness
Most conversations around the "isms" are externally focused. As a white bodied person you might be trying to "do" the right thing or "say" the right thing. As a black bodied person or brown bodied person you might be focused on creating personal safety in your immediate environment or advocating for system change.
This training is about internal awareness and understanding the ways that we all embody oppression. Throughout this training you will be asked to look honestly at your feelings and reactions.
We have all been indoctrinated into a system of oppression. We have been consistently trained in it our entire lives. To undo this training we have to first see it for what it is.
Healing and Vision
Once we have awareness we have choice. We can realign our thinking. We can heal prejudice and trauma. We can make peace with our own culture, our past and our own personal identities.
We can vision new possibilities for our world and embody those possibilities. We can curate spaces in our homes and places of work that embody cultural mindfulness.
As practitioners and community leaders we can create safe places to incubate cultural mindfulness. We lead from the inside out and by finding and cultivating awareness and peace with discomfort inside ourselves we build the resiliency of our our communities and clients.
Embodied Learning
We focus on experiential learning rather than just passing you informations.
Many of the learning points are positioned as questions rather than answers. You will get instruction, handouts and demonstrations but the bulk of the training will be experiential, exploring the how the subject feels to you and working with that.
Week 1: Colonized Consciousness
How does a colonized consciousness breed bias, prejudice, and the “isms?”
How does colonized consciousness impact how we relate to ourselves, our culture, others and their culture?
How to identify our actions, thoughts, and speech that personify our colonized consciousness?
What is cultural mindfulness and how does it manifest in thought action and speech?
Week 2: Healing
What impact does our colonized consciousness have in how we relate to healing?
What evidence do we have illustrative of flowing within our colonized consciousness?
How do we honor the need to unpack our colonized consciousness?
Week 3: Cultural Mindfulness
How did we develop our colonized consciousness?
Learn how to flow from a decolonized consciousness through mindfulness of our culture and the culture of others.
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Learn how being culturally mindful cultivates peace, safety, and human connection within decolonized healing spaces as the foundation of cultural mindfulness
Training Overview
Your Trainer
Fatima Mann is the Director of Community Advocacy and Healing Project, a 501 c(3) dedicated to cultivating culturally mindful, healing and human centered experiences and policy reform.
She served as an AmeriCorps Vista, inspiring her to combating police brutality. Co-founded the Austin Justice Coalition (AJC) an Austin based social justice organization. Through AJC participated in the creation of the body wearing camera policy for the Austin Police Department. Attended and graduated in 2018, from Southern University Law Center (SULC). Co-founded Counter Balance: ATX (CBATX) an Austin-based self-care and social justice organization. As Executive Director of CBATX, received several awards, the 2018 National Association of Social Workers Public Citizen of the Year Award, 2018 Measure Austin Big Data & Community Policing Appreciation Award, and the 2017 Austin Community College Equity Activist Award. As CBATX’s policy advisor aided in the passing of the Sandra Bland Act.
Fatima has an expert in cultural mindfulness, healing within organizational infrastructure, and human-centered approaches. She is a trailblazer in this area and curated culturally mindful, healing and human centered experiences all throughout the country. By planting seeds of cultural mindfulness, she provides the tools to embrace cultural competency and inclusivity within practices, policies, and procedures.
Fatima Mann
Week 4: Honoring the Human Experience Part I
Week 5: Honoring the Human Experience Part II
How does the engagement and treatment of others living in their human experience, shift through a cultural mindfulness lens?
How will being culturally mindfulness manifest in healing practices with others?
Week 6: Living in Cultural Mindfulness
In this session participants will practice, reflect, and connect, and repeat, with their peers, on how to embody cultural mindfulness, through a decolonizing consciousness in cultivating healing sessions.
Week 4: Honoring the Human Experience Part I
Self-reflection on one’s personal holistic human experience.
What does honoring the human experience from a culturally mindful lens mean?
How does honoring the human experience manifest in decolonized healing for oneself?
Week 5: Honoring the Human Experience Part II
I have become a better and safer practitioner because of my work with Fatima. She gave me grace and a safe place to address my bias and blindspots when it comes to race. Through our work together I now feel able to be a strong ally and practitioner for people of different cultural backgrounds. Not because, I don't make mistakes but because I'm not afraid to listen or be called out! 🔥
Lillian Moore, Austin
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“I have so much appreciation for you and how we have worked together to change my life. I know I would never be able to exist the way I am right now - pursuing my craft and fulfillment and happiness fully - without you. I am able to pursue pleasure and satisfaction and learning to live in the present moment as fully as possible. I am able to rise out of spirals of anxiety or anger and look around me”
Carey, New York, NY
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Lillian has a quality about her that just brings peace. She helped me get through some tough times and has contributed to my own work as a leader.
Madison, New York, NY
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Schedule
Meet via zoom 90 mins/ week
Private FB group for answering questions and discussion between calls.
Email and text support between classes.
Life time access to all trainings.
Opportunity for further training with Mindlight and Fatima
