Liberation Spark Practice (L.S.P.) is a call to anyone who identifies as white and a “helping professional” and wants to begin the process of unlearning white womanhood and white supremacy. It is an invitation to compassionately meet and move your energy through embodied practices of art making and somatosensory movement while learning from the teachings of QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color) liberation leaders.

Absolutely zero experience with either art making or movement is necessary to participate.
LSP sessions are virtual AND intentionally crafted to be sensory and capacity cultivating experiences for meeting yourself right where you are in your life. We will utilize art making and body resourcing as companions to the audio reading of authors Regina Jackson’s and Saira Rao’s White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better plus a series of other conversations and lectures by QTBIPOC visionaries.

The format and curriculum of this group was originally born from artist and art therapist, Briah Luckey’s personal journey. Beginning this fall, Briah has invited Lillee Chandra, a fellow artist, movement teacher and touch therapist who specializes in trauma education and resiliency, to help you connect, move and soothe your body while we carry out the emotional labors of anti-racism work and step into allyship together. Briah and Lillee hope to guide other white people to shift their focus towards non-dominant visionary voices and teachings and to challenge the status-quo. In this community of deep practice, participants will learn what they might consider hard and growth-promoting truths. The process will include:

· visual journaling

· gentle movements, breathing (awareness) practices

· grounding thru body contact and soothing self-touch

· witnessing and being witnessed

· personal boundary work

· being still and replenishing

· breaking silence

· being sparked by liberatory visions of revolution &

· invitations to clearly identify and shift your relationship with white supremacy culture

50% of the tuition of L.S.P. will go to the Sankofa Learning Center , a New Haven Black-owned Montessori school, as a form of wealth distribution that attempts to actively undo entitlement and create an opportunity for the participants of L.S.P. to reflect on and shift how class and positionality operate in our lives.