06- Racial Reckoning Pathwork Style

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This gathering will use Pathwork principals (idealized self-image, automatic reflex, images) to explore the “master narrative” (cultural narrative of hierarchy) and how it is internalized as race-based images (our “inner white supremacist”). We will propose that these race-based images are embedded in the unconscious body-mind of both black and white bodies. Fundamental to Pathwork is making the unconscious conscious and increasing our capacity to be with the “worst in ourselves, without losing faith in ourselves.” Working with individual and collective avoidance, bringing race-based automatic reflexes to consciousness, and practicing image dissolution increases our ability to experience equality as a reality.
“What is the truth?” “The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situation which we seek to escape but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us and which knows only the oppressors’ tactics, the oppressors’ relationships.” AUDRE LORDE