Why Isn’t It Interactive?

Well, for a few reasons: 1) we are grounded in racial equity and as such contract with BIPoC facilitators. Often times in our experience, we are interrupted by white folx who, often unintentionally, interrupt or attempt to distract or take over our presentations with questions, comments, suggestions, or tears. We’d like the option sometimes to not have to experience the often, well-intentioned, but harmful impact that happens in spaces where white folx are present. 2) We would like to invite BIPoC participants to experience a BIPoC facilitator without white questions, comments, suggestions, or tears. 3) We would like to invite white-bodied participants to practice white listening which means to sit with and notice the desire to ask a question, the privilege one has to interrupt, and sit with your tears or the desire to educate a BIPoC person. 4) often times in open dialogue, participants do not want to be recorded or edit their interaction in some capacity. The live processing after the group is not recorded to support the folx processing to show up more authentically. 5) some people learn better with a presentation on a topic and/or only have capacity for listening to a presentation. 6) some people present better with a presentation on a topic and/or only have capacity for speaking during the presentation as oppose to attending to the participants. 7) Some presenters (and participants) find the emotional labor that comes with an interactive, mixed (BIPoC and white bodied) audience exhausting, unsafe, or harmful. 8) We like to offer a lot of different trainings and styles within those trainings. If this type of learning doesn’t speak to you, feel free to check out some of our other offerings now or in the future.