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The YES Lab:
Sequel to the Finding Freedom Workshop
SOLD OUT
March 15- April 26, 2023
1:00-3:30pm EST over seven Wednesdays
This online 7-part series of the YES Lab is the sequel to the Finding Freedom workshop. Course pre-requisite: Finding Freedom. If you register for one of our fall/winter Finding Freedom workshops, you’ll receive a coupon code for 15% off our Spring offering of The YES Lab.
The YES Lab is facilitated by our co-founders, Kari Points and Evangeline Weiss.
“Finding Freedom and the YES Lab are truly the two most transformative spaces I’ve ever participated in on my racial justice journey as a white woman.”
This workshop focuses on deeper work around abolition, economic justice and cultural organizing as well as practice taking collective action.
How do we come alive to take bigger risks for racial justice together?
How can we use anti-racist cultural organizing in our white communities?
Where do you need to grow in service of this work?
Picking up where we left off in Finding Freedom, we as white women* dream, organize, and take lots of action together. Let’s get free together, y’all. We’re still gay. We’re still in the South. And you don’t need to be.
Session 1: March 15, 2023, 1:00-3:30 PM EST
Session 2: March 22, 2023, 1:00-3:30 PM EST
Session 3: March 29, 2023, 1:00-2:30 PM EST - PORCH SIT
Session 4: April 5, 2023, 1:00-3:30 PM EST
Session 5: April 12, 2023, 1:00-2:30 PM EST - PORCH SIT
Session 6: April 19, 2023, 1:00-3:30 PM EST
Session 7: April 26, 2023, 1:00-3:30 PM EST
Participants must attend Session 1 of the YES Lab to participate.
“Amazing - just like Finding Freedom, I feel like the YES Lab stretched me in new ways, helped me build new muscles, and caused breakthrough after breakthrough in terms of both reflection and action.”
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You must have completed our Finding Freedom workshop in order to be able to take the YES Lab. If you register for one of our fall/winter Finding Freedom workshops, you’ll receive a coupon code for 15% off our Spring offering of The YES Lab.
All women and gender nonconforming, non-binary and trans people, and all mixed-race and white-presenting people of color, who are interested in exploring the intersection of white womanhood and white supremacy are welcome to join us. The categories of “white” or “woman” might not be exactly how you define yourself. This workshop may still be useful to you if you were socialized as a white female and/or you are perceived as one today.
As a mixed-class facilitation team, we warmly welcome people of all class backgrounds. And we do not turn people away due to cost. We offer a sliding scale that allows people to register according to their current class status and also have limited free tickets available for people who are currently poor.
This workshop focuses on United States history, context and current reality. Women from outside the US are welcome to join us, as long as you understand we will be using a US-based frame. -
**Before you register, visit our Workshop Pricing Options page to determine which rate you should pay.**
Redistribution Rate Tickets $604: We invite middle and upper-class participants to purchase tickets at this level as an act of cross-class solidarity that enables more poor and working-class people to participate. Building together as white women across class is crucial to ending white supremacy.
Full Rate Tickets $340: For currently middle-class participants. These tickets are “at cost.” They enable us to cover the expenses related to putting on this workshop.
Working-Class Rate Tickets $125: For currently working-class participants only. If you are not currently working-class, select the full rate or the redistribution rate. For guidance, visit our Workshop Pricing Options page. We offer working-class participants this lower rate, because your perspective and life experience are invaluable.
Free Tickets $0: For currently poor participants only. If you are not currently poor, select a different rate. For guidance, visit our Workshop Pricing Options page. We offer currently poor participants this free rate, because your perspective and life experience are invaluable. Limited availability.
SPECIAL GROUP RATE! $300 each for 2 or more people who register together. Invite your friends, family and colleagues to join you! You’ll each register separately, but select this group rate. In the registration form, you’ll be prompted to name who you are registering with.If you register for one of our fall/winter Finding Freedom workshops, you’ll receive a coupon code for 15% off our Spring offering of The YES Lab.
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Please visit our frequently asked questions.
For additional questions not covered in the FAQ, please email info@wearefindingfreedom.org.
Evangeline Weiss, Founder
I am a white Jewish queer and anti-racist social change instigator with a twinkle in my eye. With over 22 years of organizational development experience, I facilitate values-based capacity building to sustain leaders and organizations on a path towards greater wholeness, intentionality and purpose. After earning a Masters’ degree in educational policy studies, I have facilitated change in a range of settings – from social service organizations to non-profits and institutions of higher education. I am an artist and a poet, a community builder and a justice worker. I live in Greensboro, NC with my beloved soulmate, our son, and most adorable dog, Sherlock.
Kari Points, Founder
I’m a white Durham-based dyke who was raised working class in rural Southern Indiana. A member of the national board of Showing Up for Racial Justice, I support our movements as a facilitator and consultant on racial, gender, economic and healing justice. My political roots rest in resistance to state violence toward families, and I work toward restoring the spiritual and community health of my working-class white people. I believe we as white folks can and must free ourselves from internalized white supremacy, build mutual interest and solidarity with people of color both in the US and around the world, and organize for collective liberation. Living in the South means I love storytelling, pettiness, good food and music, jokes, screened-in porch sitting, and (r)evolution. Let’s get free!
