Unlearning Oppression
Teaching for Racial Justice and Social Change : Beyond Ordinary "Diversity" Training
Abbazero and Swan Keyes provide workshops, seminars, public presentations and consulting for unlearning oppression, offering tools and insights for personal, professional, and social transformation and inclusive community-building.
abbazero | metaphysican
Abbazero is a Nigerian Jamaican Jewish bush doctor (known in the West as a shaman or ritual /ceremonial leader). Having studied spiritual traditions and political movements all over the world, he travels extensively, teaching and leading rituals, ceremonies and seminars.
swan keyes | psychotherapist
Swan Keyes is a psychotherapist, consultant, and educator dedicated to dismantling white supremacy and other forms of oppression. She delivers trainings, lectures and workshops, specializing in helping white people investigate their white cultural conditioning to become more effective at interrupting oppression, building healthy communities, and advocating for social change. For over 15 years she has served as a senior teacher in the UNtraining, a program for untraining white liberal racism, and has led workshops for colleges and institutions on unlearning racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism and other oppressions.
Workshops, presentations and consultation services. Contact for more information.
Clients have included:
-
University of California School of Social Work
-
Occidental College
-
Sarah Lawrence College
-
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
-
San Francisco State University
-
California Institute of Integral Studies
-
New College of California
-
Pacific School of Religion
-
University of Michigan
-
University of Wisconsin
-
The Wright Institute
-
Laney College
-
Merritt College
-
North American Students of Cooperation
-
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
-
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley;
and numerous others engaged in social change and racial justice work