LEARNING SERIES: Contributing Intentionally
How are you contributing to a more loving and just community, organization, school, family?
Invitations, and Inquiries
to Deepen Awareness and
Discern Next Steps
Learning sessions explore these questions and topics as well as others:
How do you contribute to more love and justice in your community, organization, school, family?
What supports collaboration and accountable relationships, particularly across race?
What’s calling to you on the journey of cultiating more love and justice?
What skills, resources, time, connections do you have to contribute?
What does accountability look and feel like? Who and what are you accountable to?
What support is necessary to allow you to contribute as fully as possible?
Move through content and activites at your own pace.
About the Learning Sessions
Learning Sessions come in different forms: pre-recorded conversations with community leaders, questions to explore, video clips with reflections, activities, journal prompts, and invitations to practice. Content is curated by Lucia Daugherty and Ashley Cooper. New content and inquires are released throughout each month.
18 min video about this series
Topics Explored and Featured Guests
What’s Calling?
Featured Guests
DeAngelo Collins, Youth Liaison for My Daddy Taught Me That
Keynon Lake, Founder of My Daddy Taught Me That
Additional Topics Explored in this Recorded Discussion
- Stories and insights about growing a meaningful youth development program
- Reflections on an intergenerational partnership that is based in mutual learning and respect
- Mentoring 101
- Being a youth ambassador for a community
- Invitations for grown ups and White people who are showing up in youth spaces and Black and Brown spaces
Skills, Resources, Connections to Contribute
What is yours to contribute? What skills, time, resources, connections do you have to contribute? What time and energy do you want to give? What resources do you have to invest? Who is in your sphere of influence?
Featured Guests
Magaly Urdiales with WNC Workers Center, JMPRO TV, and Center for Participatory Change
Julio Tordoya, Co-Founder and Content Producer at JMPRo TV
Additional Topics Explored in this Recorded Discussion
- Stories and insights about popular education, organizing within and between communities, and the power in people
- Ideas for White folks about how to show up supportively in some immigrant communities. Tips of things to be aware of when volunteering
- Suggestions about how to grow trust
- Insight from two educators and lifelong learners about the journey of learning and importance of sharing your gifts
Accountability
Who and what are you accountable to? Are you accountable to specific people, a community, outcomes, an analysis? Are you accountable by choice or because of your role? What does accountability look like for you? What are your accountability goals or commitments?
Featured Guests
Marta Alcalá-Williams, Director of Equity and Community Engagement with Asheville City Schools
Dr. Dwight Mullen, Professor Emeritus and Founder of State of Black Asheville
Additional Topics Explored in this Recorded Discussion
- Stories and insights about growing up in Watts/Compton, the role of elders, relationships with ancestors, decades of working towards justice, and staying in relationship through tension and conflict
- The importance of being self-aware and self-directed when it comes to accountability
- Accountability through trusting relationships with people rather than as a hierarchical concept, loving accountability
- Calling people in and approaching people from a place of inquiry
Support
What support do you need in order to stick with the commitments you make? Logistical, physical, emotional, spiritual support. Support you provide for yourself, support you would value from others. What is the support that is actually going to sustain you?
Featured Guests
Reverend Tami Forte-Logan, Equity Missioner with Faith 4 Justice Asheville
Lucia Daugherty, Equity, Inclusion and Resiliency Educator/Consultant, Coach, and Facilitator
Additional Topics Explored in this Recorded Discussion
- Stories and insights about self-care, what is supportive in growing trusting multiracial relationships, dynamics between Black women and White women
- Insight into trauma, healing, and different types of oppression people have experienced
- Historical patterns of White women, harm that can happen, and awareness that is valuable
- The power of people’s lived experiences
- Invitations for White folks to work with and support each other for the purpose of being more effective in multi-racial relationships
CO-PRODUCERS
ABOUT THE ROLE
Series producers thoughtfully curate the content, shape, spirit, and flow of learning sessions. They determine which community guests are invited, questions asked, content that is focused on, and materials created.
Producers weave to life a vision and invite other people into the learning.
This Learning Series is co-produced by Lucia Daugherty and Ashley Cooper. Combined, they have over 40 years of experience in community organizing, coaching, and facilitation. The synergy and dynamics of their relationship inspire their imaginations about what’s possible when people work together across race. They intentionally draw from their firsthand experiences as a Black woman and a White woman sharing in the work.
Pilot Plans
Monthly Content + Online Community
Access to learning sessions and the virtual community center.- Each month new content is released. Pre-recorded conversations, inquiries, and activities to move through at your own pace.
- Insight and stories from local leaders. See who is featured in the pilot series.
- Activities, invitations to practice, facilitated questions.
- People to connect, learn, and be accountable with.
- A supportive environment.
The Pilot Season of Content + Community
Access to all learning sessions and the virtual community center.- Access to all content released over 5.5 months. Pre-recorded conversations, inquiries, and activities to move through at your own pace.
- Insight and stories from local leaders. See who is featured in the pilot series.
- Activities, invitations to practice, facilitated questions.
- People to connect, learn, and be accountable with.
- A supportive environment.
1 Coaching Session + Content + Community Space
- 1 Individual Coaching Session (60-minutes)
- Access to all monthly content and the virtual community center
- Access to a “private” social space for people participating in Practice Groups and Coaching
3 Drop-in Practice Groups + Content + Community Space
- 3 Facilitated Drop-in Practice Groups (90-minutes each)
- Access to all monthly content and the virtual community center
- Access to a “private” social space for people participating in Practice Groups and Coaching
4 Coaching Sessions + Content + Community Space
- 4 Individual Coaching Sessions (60-minutes each)
- Access to all monthly content and the virtual community center
- Access to a “private” social space for people participating in Practice Groups and Coaching
Bundle: Coaching + Practice Groups + Content + Community space
- 3 Drop-in Practice Groups
- 2 Individual Coaching Sessions
- Access to all monthly content and the virtual community center
- Access to a “private” social space for people participating in Practice Groups and Coaching
Given that this pilot is an exploration into the economics of this work, the above rates are a starting place with a primary intention to pay coaches and facilitators fairly for the amount of energy and effort this work requires. If you have other ideas about how to financially value the experience and wisdom of contributors, please be in touch.
Customize a Practice Group
This option is for already established groups or to support starting a new group with a specific focus (i.e. groups for parents, people of faith, educators). Groups can have 6-15 participants and will have the support of two experienced facilitators. Each participant in a group that works with Supportive Accountability facilitators also receive access to the Social Learning Spaces and monthly content.