Transforming Gender Injustice into Beloved Community
Live Online Course with Gender Equity and Reconciliation International Trainers
August 3 - September 14, 2024
Saturdays 9 - 11 am (PT)
Bioneers Learning offers a limited amount of scholarships for individuals to attend this course. These scholarships are meant to ensure diverse participation and representation, prioritizing financial support for youth of color and youth from under-resourced communities. Bioneers values bringing together people from a multiplicity of identities and backgrounds. We encourage persons from ALL backgrounds/identities/communities to apply! You are welcome here, apply now: https://forms.gle/G6sG7ZMC9rtAc3FA8
Are there parallels between exploitation of the Earth and exploitation of the feminine? This was the burning question that ignited a crucial new initiative 32 years ago within the environmental movement, which grew over time to become a global movement, known as gender equity and reconciliation. The dysfunctional patterns of gender-based injustice and associated tyranny of gendered hierarchies that wreak so much damage in the delicate ecology of human relationships, are closely mirrored in parallel dysfunctional patterns of exploitation, domination, and control that wreak havoc upon the delicate ecology of the natural environment and our sacred planetary home.
We cannot solve either of these massive problems without also solving the other. For this reason, transforming gender injustice has become increasingly recognized as a foundational component of transforming humanity’s relationship with the Earth. Indeed, the Earth has its own “MeToo” story, which has been the focus of the mainstream environmental movement for decades.
Meanwhile the human #Metoo story is just getting started. We celebrate the millions of women who have shared their truth as a result of the MeToo Movement. Yet this is only part of the gender revolution. Men, transgender, and nonbinary people also have their stories of oppression and abuse that urgently need to be heard. Men and boys are viciously squeezed into the Man Box, just as transgender and non-binary people are suffocated by heteronormative dogmas. To fully heal and create a new civilization of “beloved community,” all voices are needed for true cultural transformation.
Bioneers Learning course “MeToo to WeTogether: Transforming Gender Injustice into Beloved Community,” provides a professionally facilitated forum for taking this next step. “In our work, we create a platform for everyone to speak truth to what their experience is,” said Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) Co-Founder Cynthia Brix. “This enables not only women but also men to come forward, and for people of all gender identities and expressions to come forward—all speaking to their experience of pain and suffering around gender relationships and sexuality.”
This seven-week online course, facilitated by GERI trainers, applies principles of Truth and Reconciliation to gender and sexual injustice. The course provides attendees a safe forum to come together and speak their truth, experience the power of collective healing, and transform dysfunctional gender conditioning into beloved communities. Together, women, men, and people of all genders and sexual orientations can confront sensitive and often taboo issues relating to gender and sexuality to reach a place of newfound respect and trust.
This course will run from August 3 - September 14, 2024, with sessions taking place on Saturdays from 9 - 11 am (PT). Classes will be held via Zoom.