Co-Create to Liberate: Raising Antiracist Kids Through Art
An arts-based course for adults empowering kids to create a more inclusive world
Have you ever…
Felt a pang of shame staring at the racial justice books you keep meaning to read but just never seem to get around to?
Looked up from the headlines and felt ready to do something, only to be immediately overwhelmed as to where to start?
Found yourself despairing at the ham handed ways you talk about racism with the kids in your life?
So you double down. You add a few more books to the stack. Download some podcasts. Maybe even join a local listserv or two.
But after all that, you somehow end up having the same awkward conversations with your kids after another life is lost to police violence. Or you clam up as you witness yet another microaggression in your classroom.
Maybe it’s time to try something different?
Are you ready to Co-Create to Liberate?
Engage the mighty power of creativity to enter into conversations of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging from a different direction. With art as our guide, we start to embody change and create lasting impact.
Imagine if engaging with the kids in our life to address racism and create cultures of belonging felt invigorating, inspiring, and joyful.
We’ve taken the core elements of our in-person workshops and adapted them into a simple, self-paced course: Co-Create to Liberate.
“This isn’t just an art class. It feels like a rumbling revolution. I was introduced to a lifestyle, a way to be in conversation with our kids about anti-racism, but not hammering with conversation! It opened my eyes to the possibility of osmosis, how art activities create an awareness, a seeing that is critical for our world for all the reasons we know. I recommend this to any people who want to be responsible humans and want deeper, sweeter, rounder connection with their children.” Molly May, Mother, Writer
Take The Class
This seven-part course guides parents, educators, caregivers, and professionals through our unique arts-based framework and provides tangible tools to help kids build a stronger sense of self and deepen their ability to connect and empathize.
The course consists of seven modules each made up of 20 minutes of video content and up to one hour of follow material to engage as your schedule allows. You will walk away from each module with creative activities and clear takeaways ready to engage the kids in your life.
The course is grounded in Co-Create to Liberate’s five-theme framework for building equitable communities. Each module contains an arts based project guide with specific activities that bring the theme alive
- Theme 1: Understanding Identity
- Essential Question: How does skin color impact human experience?
- Focus Skills : Self-reflection, self-understanding
- Theme 2: Deepening Connection
- Essential Question: How do we recognize the different perspectives we all hold and still find ways to connect?
- Focus Skills: Empathy, understanding concept of different points of view, accepting different ways of being in the world
- Theme 3: Co-Creating Community
- Essential Question: How do our unique strengths enable us to co-create community with others?
- Focus Skills: Collaboration, cooperation, respect
- Theme 4: Disrupting Harmful Cycles
- Essential Question: How can I use art to bring awareness to a cause I care about?
- Focus Skills: speaking up and using your voice, reflection, taking initiative
- Theme 5: Re-imagining the Future
- Essential Question: How can we use our imaginations to think outside what exists and feel into what a more equitable world might be like?
- Skills: Thinking outside the box, creativity, foresight, imagination
Pricing
We are committed to making our classes as accessible as possible. If you find yourself in a moment of financial abundance please consider our Abundance Price which allows others to participate at a our Reduced rate. We honor your integrity in deciding if the Reduced rate is appropriate for your financial situation.
Base price $197, Reduced price $97, Abundance price: $297
Meet Your Instructors
Jen Bloomer MA and Amber Simmons MFT share a passion for the arts as a means of healing and change and decades of combined experience working in communities of all kinds. Learn more
