Global Blackness Summer School ‘23 / For Wholeness. Black being well
“Emergent Transformations - who shapes the world?”, with Cathy-Mae Karelse & Dee Marco (online)
Join us for an interactive online session with deep systems change specialist Cathy-Mae Karelse, facilitated by Dee Marco of Mother.Lab. Cathy-Mae Karelse is the author of Disrupting White Mindfulness - Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry (Manchester University Press, 2023)
Click here to download a pdf Playbook prepared with care by Carthy-Mae & Dee
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Decolonising and emerging – together…
In White Mindfulness:Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry (2023), Cathy-Mae Karelse outlines and critiques why the now trillion dollar wellness industry is as problematic as it is in our global, contemporary imaginaries.Alongside this, Karelse explores the relationship between wellness and whiteness by naming how whiteness, with its harsh hyper-individualised borders, has come to and continues to shape so much of our thinking around wellness, serving as the quintessential marker of being whole and well.
What is this thing that shapes our ideas and aspirations which are being sold at such an unreachable price?
Cathy-Mae and Dee Marco welcome you into a conversation and practice that centralises thinking and living from a place of nourishment, kindness and collective care, outside of the hyper-capitalist and colonial ways of behaving we have come to know.The session intends to weave narrative, symbols and breath to explore questions of radical peace, radical joy, radical freedom - keeping in mind the deeply disruptive and destroying context of war, climate crises and violence.They invite us to think about and explore how we can radically transform violent constructs that impose structures and frameworks upon us.
Cathy-Mae and Dee will be bringing some of the following questions to the session:
Is wellbeing a destination? In our fast-changing, demanding world, what does being well mean and/or look like? Is it in your body or somewhere else? Do we experience joy and ease in our bodies and when or where does this happen? Are there other words and definitions for being well that we could use instead? Do these give greater or more accurate expression to compassion and love? If we were to shine a light on our moments of peace, what might we see?
Please join us in our play box… an intimate, virtual enclave of light that we hope to create with you to chat, laugh, dismantle and recreate the confines of the conventional trappings and impositions of the wellness world. Please bring your paper and pens, cushions and blankets to this online session, as we together uncover the unexplored crannies of our longings for ease and tell stories of our communal joy-making.
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