Bubbles

The second is Bubbles.

Working with me as a coaching client, we will explore how the following looks in your life.

Bubbles is in the bubbling awareness and knowledge. What are you doing here? What don’t I know? Where have I been? Why don’t I know that?And where do I need to be more honest about truth and history.  Of the United states. Of my family and lineage. Of my own experience in this world.

In order to move forward into something new, we must know where we have been. You don’ t know what you don’t know.  However, choosing to move away from willful ignorance and the denial of history and historical context that shapes racial dynamics in our world today, is a huge piece to white folks racial identity development. 

One, to acknowledge and know the way race is present in today's systems, and social narratives, therefore in us. 

And two, to build confidence (and get used to not knowing) around language, ideas, and ultimately mistakes.  As well as the trap doors and distractions/patterns that confuse and keep white folks away from staying engaged. We’ve been carefully taught to want to stay away from the subject of race.  The truth is hidden so that we stay complicit.  And so we must let it be seen in order to release the tension and pop the bubble of lies. 

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Learn more about my framework and philosophy (and reason behind) my business name

In a sense, the battle is and always has been a battle for the hearts and minds of white people in this country. The fight against racism is not something we’re called on to help people of color with.  We need to become involved as if our lives depended on it because, in truth, they do.” —Anne Braden

Below are more words, phrases and ideas under this pillar and way of being - BUBBLES

History - Past

Truth that has been Omitted

Context

Systems - 4 I’s of Oppression

Start to see Patterns/Predictability

Creation Story of Whiteness

What has been given up

Frame of reference

Intersectionality

I don’t know what I don’t know

Consciousness

Matrix

System

Wake up

be/do different

Bubbles in the hallway

Head