Join our vision of millions of white men moving in partnership with BIPOC colleagues, white women and each other to build equitable communities.
Oct 2024 - March 2025
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Virtual and In Person in CA
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Oct 2024 - March 2025 • Virtual and In Person in CA •
2023 Breaking the Mold Cohort
2022 Breaking the Mold Cohort
Our 6 month leadership program serves as an entry point to join our vision. We guide white men to realize this future by examining our socialization, cultivating our humanity, and practicing how to be satisfying partners for equity.
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.
Join a community of white men who support and challenge each other in co-creating a deeply inclusive society.
This Six-Month Program Includes:
October - December 2024
10-03-24 3pm est
10-17-24 3pm est
10-31-24 3pm est
11-14-24 3pm est
12-05-24 3pm est
12-19-24 3pm est
6, 2-hour
Virtual Learning Sessions
November - December 2024
360 Degree Feedback Assessment
January 11-15, 2025
SAturday 3:30 pm - Wednesday 11:00 A.M.
5-day In-Person Retreat,
Northern CA
November 2024 - March 2025
4 Individual Coaching Sessions
January - March 2025
01-30-25 3pm est
02-27-25 3pm est
03-27-25 3pm est
3, 2.5-hour Virtual Learning Sessions
Tuition
Locate your suggested tuition by determining whichever puts you higher on the scale: your organization’s budget or assets, or your household income. Our sliding scale enables wealthy men and larger organizations to help cover program costs for men from poor and working class backgrounds and smaller organizations.
Depending on the levels of participant tuition, up to 10% of our income will be given to BIPOC-led racial justice organizations.
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$18,000
For those sponsored by an organization with a budget/assets of $30 million+ or household income above $500,000 if paying personally.
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$14,000
For those from an organization with a budget or assets of $20-30 million or household income between $375,000-$500,000.
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$11,000
For those from organizations with budgets or assets between $10-20 million or household income between $250,000 - $375,000.
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$7,000
For those from organizations with budgets or assets between $2-10 million or household income between $125,000- $250,000.
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$3,000
For those from organizations with budgets or assets of less than $2 million or household income less than $125,000.
We’d be glad to help you think about what rate you and your organization are able to pay. If this tuition is prohibitive for you, please reach out to us and we’ll discuss our options together. Some scholarship funds are available.
Fee covers tuition, materials, room and board. The fee does not include travel expenses.
Here are the costs associated with running Breaking the Mold each year
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$30,000 for 26 people for 5 days
Includes meeting spaces, lodging and food. -
$138,500
Current Cohort:
Programming - $96,000
Includes all design, materials, travel and prep for 9 online sessions, 96 coaching sessions and 5 days of in person facilitation
Coordination - $30,500
includes all outreach, recruitment, participant interviews, 360 feedback process, scheduling, shipping and printing -
Ongoing Alumni Program - $12,000
Includes 9 online alumni sessions from Sept-June annually.
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$26,700
Logistics management, bookkeeping, tax services, zoom hosting, insurance, advisory council, website design and hosting.
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Depending on the levels of participant tuition, up to 10% of revenue will be given to BIPOC-led racial justice organizations. In 2022, we gave 10% of our income to BOLD, Rockwood Leadership Institute & Manna-Hatta Fund.
In total, the cost of running Breaking the Mold every year is $219,200. The current cost per cohort participant, not counting alumni programming, is $8,633.
who we are
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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.
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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.