Weaving the Counter Vortex: Practicing Leadership Rooted in Abundance and Trust

• In Event: Socio-Emotional Wellness in Education

Abstract

As mid-career white women academics and educators, we are increasingly taking on leadership roles: facilitating, managing, chairing, directing, and coordinating. However, leadership frameworks rarely provide opportunities to learn and practice anti-racist and humanizing approaches. As we continue to “develop our muscles” for ongoing fights for liberation and racial justice, we find that embodied somatic practices and collective memory work can teach us ways to name and combat the danger white women leaders perpetuate toward Black, Indigenous, and other people of color. We will share how our practices help us weave a more anti-racist leadership framework grounded in abundance and trust.

Presenters

• Colleen H. Clements, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

• Angela C. Coffee, Century College

• Erin B. Stutelberg, Salisbury University