Calling It Like It Is: Uncovering and Dismantling Racism in the Waldorf Movement

Background

In spring 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, American society underwent a racial awakening. During this time, the Waldorf movement was also awakening to the undeniable fact that racism exists within Waldorf education. Conceived of against this backdrop, Calling It Like It Is: Uncovering and Dismantling Racism in the Waldorf Movement was presented that September in the goal of taking on the work of recognizing and eradicating racism from our classrooms in order to truly educate our children (and ourselves) toward freedom.

The response to that groundbreaking 2020 event proved to be so widespread, the workshop has been repeated several times since to new audiences of Waldorf professionals. We are pleased to present an encore presentation of that original–and essential–DEI workshop.

Description 

Over the course of three one-and-a-half-hour sessions taking place virtually in real-time on Friday evening and Saturday morning and afternoon, this workshop:

• Defines and articulates the ways many Waldorf school curricula center whiteness and set it up as an ideal, to the detriment of all;
• Uses the frameworks of racial identity formation and biography work to better understand how we become who we are in a racialized society and how that impacts our engagement with the children in our care;
• Shares practical tools, resources, and success stories with the goal of dismantling racism in Waldorf schools and communities.

Registrants will be sent advanced reading material.