Map Your Journey

MAP YOUR HEALING JOURNEY
Penumbra now offers four equity training modules: Racial Healing, Psychological Safety, Belonging, and Allyship. Each module includes compassionate, inclusive facilitation; wellness modalities designed to increase regulation and resiliency; artistic offerings and practices that open creative channels; tools and techniques that are adaptable to a wide variety of equity concerns. For more information, or to book an equity training workshop, contact us at equity@penumbratheatre.org

>>FOUNDATIONS OF RACIAL HEALING
Penumbra is the only organization licensed to train clients in The 4A’s Equity Framework™ developed by Penumbra’s president, Sarah Bellamy, to make the work of racial healing clear, practical, and possible. Our team of artists, equity leaders, and wellness experts guide participants through racial healing work in an integrated, holistic way that will benefit not just our clients’ lives, but the lives of those around them, too. This workshop covers:
• The 4A’s Equity Framework™, a process to build confidence, competence, and dexterity in racial equity and racial healing work
• A primer on how racial trauma affects the body, mind, and spirit, as well as methods to restore and repair
• Trauma-informed practices that can empower individuals and organizations to begin or advance their racial healing

>>PSYCHOLOGY OF RACE
While race is a social construct without biological meaning, racism has made the experience of race very real. This training invites participants to explore the complexity of race and how humans have found both profound belonging and encountered extreme terror due to how race is made real in society. This workshop covers:
• Connection through racial identity
• Racism, trauma, and effects on mental and physical well-being
• Trauma-informed practices that can increase psychological safety
• Powerful storytelling and expert facilitation

>>BELONGING
As social creatures, human beings are biologically driven to create groups held together through attachment and identity. While this creates a sense of security for some, others may experience ostracization, prejudice, even exile. This training invites participants to contemplate how we can learn to belong to ourselves first, creating spaciousness and energy to help others belong, too. This workshop covers:
• The biological importance of belonging; primal and contemporary practices of reciprocity
• Connection through identity; empathy, and the construction of in-groups and out-groups
• Trauma-informed practices that can increase belonging
• Powerful storytelling and expert facilitation

>>ALLYSHIP
True compassion urges us toward action when others are suffering. It is an orientation, a frame of mind that influences behaviors, rather than a series of finite actions. This training focuses on strategies to support besieged communities and vulnerable individuals by deepening our historical analysis and leveraging our privilege to interrupt oppression. Everyone can be an ally for someone else. This workshop covers:
• Identity and social location work
• Understanding privilege and strategies to leverage it for social impact
• Trauma-informed practices that can increase resiliency and regulation
• Powerful storytelling and expert facilitation

For more information, or to book an equity training workshop, contact us at equity@penumbratheatre.org