(NAME-MCE) Healing the Heart of Justice March 2009 Oakland CA

[Anselmo Villanueva]

"Healing the Heart of Justice: Reclaiming our Power to
Change the World" A Seminar on Transformative Social Justice Education

with Victor Lee Lewis

Monday, March 2, 2009 at 7:00pm to Monday, March 23, 2009 at 9:30pm

Location: First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison
Street, Oakland, CA
Contact: 510.225.8561 ntorbett at seminaryofthestreet.org

4 Monday Evenings, March 2-23, 7-9:30pm

"Healing the Heart of Justice: Reclaiming our Power to
Change the World" A Seminar on Transformative Social Justice Education

with Victor Lee Lewis

How did an mixed-heritage community organizer, born of a black Kenyan
father and a white mother from Kansas, with the middle name "Hussein,"
who was raised in Hawaii, Indonesia and Kansas, become the president
of the U.S. with only 2 years of experience in national politics? What
lessons does Obama's breakthrough have for social change agents
everywhere? What is the seat of our own power to create and inspire
real and lasting change? What is the work of "decolonizing the 'self'?
What kind of world do we want to live in and what is the map from
"here" to "there"? How can we build sustainable organizations for
social justice leadership? How do we use and learn from the eruption
of "racial issues" in our "multicultural organizations"? What is the
role of healing?

Take a big next step in your development of the knowledge, skills and
attitudes we need to build vibrant and sustainable intercultural
alliances for social justice with this new offering with renowned
diversity educator Victor Lee Lewis! "Healing the Heart of Justice"
constitutes a new paradigm in antiracism and social justice education.
Even if you are an experienced social justice activist or educator you
will learn practical tools, ideas and approaches that you have never
been exposed to before. Best known for his key role in the
breakthrough film, The Color of Fear, which is now one of the
principal "texts" used in antiracism teaching around the country,
Victor has worked for more than 25 years in the men's anti-violence
movement, the multicultural and social justice education communities,
the environmental justice movement, and various cultural and social
change initiatives, while maintaining a steady interest in spiritual
and healing traditions as well. These two vectors of his life have
converged over the last six months and constellated a new and powerful
way of providing inspiring, content-rich social justice education,
leadership coaching and individual healing simultaneously. This new
approach will be introduced in this introductory program, which will
involve both teaching of key concepts and experiential learning using
issues that present themselves during class.

The fulcrum of change upon which the transformation of the whole world
is leveraged is the individual human soul. This class, the first in a
series focused on the essential ideas and practical skills and
processes for "unlearning," and "undoing" racism and all forms of
social oppression will focus on identifying and tearing down the
mental, emotional and spiritual "prison walls" --the automatic
thoughts, feelings and practices that undermine true alliance building
toward structural change. We will explore and challenge the tacit
presuppositions of white privilege and internalized oppression, both
of which operate in "white" people and "people of color."

Join us on Monday nights, as we "change the way we change the world!"

Instructor: Victor Lee Lewis
4  Mondays, 7-9:30pm
Fee: $60 for the series, $20 dollar drop-in, or pay what you can (no
on turned away for economic reasons)

To register, email ntorbett at seminaryofthestreet.org