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Equity Leadership for White Men

Breaking the Mold provides transformative experiences for white men to become more impactful partners in building inclusive workplaces and communities.

Breaking the Mold explores the current challenges and opportunities facing white men in equity & inclusion work, moving them from being bystanders to active partners.

 

 This Six-Month Program Includes:

  • VIRTUAL LEARNING SESSIONS

    Interactive online sessions will engage participants in learning, discussion and connecting with each other in meaningful ways. The relationships formed will be a rich resource for all to draw on in the years ahead.

  • AN IN-PERSON RETREAT

    Around the midpoint of the program, participants will gather for five days of in-depth, experiential work at a private retreat center in Northern California.

  • LEADERSHIP COACHING

    One-on-one coaching provides participants with tailored support to integrate new learning into their lives. Each participant will receive four individual coaching sessions.

 TOGETHER PARTICIPANTS WILL:

Study history through the lens of race, class and gender to better understand the forces that shape our society today.

Explore how the socialization of white men has influenced their bodies, beliefs, behavior and leadership.

Practice new skills and ways of leading that feature connection, collaboration, cultivating power with others and building cultures of equity.

Form a community of white men who support and challenge each other in co-creating a deeply inclusive society.

 

 Facilitators

 

  • Ethan Kerr is a facilitator, coach and educator grounded in anti-oppression principles. He blends more than 15 years of experience in anti-racist facilitation, somatic group work and experiential leadership development. He partners with organizations, businesses, schools, and individuals in committed, long-term change, challenging people to align their behavior and institutions with their values. He earned his M.S.Ed. in Educational Leadership from Bank Street Graduate School and lives with his family in the Hudson Valley of New York on Lenape land.

  • John is a leadership coach and facilitator. For the past five years, he co-facilitated Rockwood Leadership Institute’s year-long program for senior executive social change leaders. His whole-person approach helps leaders engage powerfully to create greater impact with less effort and more joy. His clients in the U.S. and abroad have included healthcare, education, labor, environmental and social justice, communications and philanthropy. He holds a Masters Degree in Education from Montana State University, Billings. John is an avid hiker, beekeeper, and gardener, and lives with his partner Rebekah and their children in Montana on Crow land.

 When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

―Toni Morrison