White Allyship Coaching

Irene Greene offers White allyship coaching to individuals and groups.

Examples of topics for your anti-racism White allyship coaching services (and trainings) with Irene:

~ Increase racial literacy: definitions, facts, videos: abolition, White rage, White entitlement, decolonization, anti-Blackness, intersectionality, cultural appropriation, performative allyship, etc.

~ Identify and start to recognize the nuances of your Whiteness, White privilege, and White Supremacy culture.

~ Accept that because of the very nature of racism, we White people have learned how to be, act, and think through a racist lens

~ Why we White people will inevitably be performative in almost everything anti-racist we try to do, and what to do about that

~ Unpack Tema Olkun’s Characteristics of White Supremacy (1999) as they relate to us in our families, workplaces, and relationships

~ Deeply explore how white supremacy unconsciously and consciously impacts your life.

~ Examine the colonization of the mental health and social work fields and explore how colonization occurs in our work. 

~ Identify how our “fight, flee, freeze, fade, and fawn” reactions to threat and discomfort play out for you in racially-based situations.

~ Learn concrete strategies to respond from our values and not from our entitlement, fears, shame, and anxiety.

~ Face your internal fears, discomfort, and conflict avoidance when witnessing racist behavior and policies.

~ Identify our somatic reactions to whiteness and racism and how our ability to dissociate from our body and heart allows us to perpetuate White Supremacy and racism.

~ Actively grapple with being humble and vulnerable.

~ Dissect examples of workplace situations where your White privilege, bias, entitlement, and judgment are in covert and overt operation.

~ Learn from specific real-life interactions where you weren’t sure what to do, where you made an anti-racist comment or action, or want to do better.

Develop your anti-racist and decolonizing perspectives into actual anti-racist practices.

Strategize ways you will address your personal issues related to White privilege and White entitlement and your organization’s issues.

Make a plan. Identify your blocks. Follow-through. Commit to accountability follow-up meetings.

Irene’s training and coaching services are cited and endorsed by Mary Pender Greene, LCSW-R, CGP, MPG Consulting, New York, in the book: The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness Edited by Kenneth V. Hardy (2022): Section VI. Anti-racism and On Becoming White Antiracists, Chapter 20: Becoming an Anti-racist Leader: From the View of a Back Female Clinician and Consultant, by Mary Pender Greene, pages 371 – 404: page 400.

Anti-Racism and Allyship Resources

Trainings I offered in 2020, 2021, and 2022

Listing of Irene Greene’s Anti-Racism & Understanding Whiteness Trainings & Coaching 2017 – 2022 (PDF)

Examples:

• Workplace Moral Injury Through a Racial Equity Lens for the Undoing Racism® Executive Collective Meeting (Monthly Speaker, New York City, NY, Virtual Workshop, June 2022)
• For White LGBTQPAI+ Helping Professionals: Facing Our Whiteness, Unlearning Racism, and Decolonizing Mental Health A 38-hour training designed for LGBTQPIA+ helping professionals. It includes twelve 1.5-hour Action, Ally, and Accountability Groups.
• For White Helping Professionals: Facing Our Whiteness, Unlearning Racism, and Decolonizing Mental Health A 20-hour weekend training. 

National Anti-Racism Trainings Resources (some of many)

(Irene’s own specialized training in doing her unlearning racism work)

For more information and to schedule a free 30-minute phone consultation, contact Irene.