A 12 Step Program to De-Colonize and Re-Africanize Our Thinking

276 Carroll Street Northwest,Washington DC 20012

20 February, 2022

Description

The 1st Culturally Specific 12 Step Program that Addresses Racism/White Supremacy This event is for BIPOC folks. To register for the non-BIPOC class please click here. The aim of this presentation is to encourage people to start or join an Ubuntu 12 step meeting (3 or more people). Ubuntu is an indigenous inspired and thus is a culturally specific 12 Step Program that provides a safe, supportive space to talk about racism/white supremacy. It was created to help people move beyond talking about racial justice to actually dismantling the system of racism, white supremacy via individual and collective activism. Because the 12 step program model is the largest, most successful habit changing process in the world, is free, and open to the public…it was chosen to address racialized thinking and behaviors while it also provides racial literacy, implicit bias, and historical and intergenerational trauma healing training. Jackie Morgan, the creator of Ubuntu has a Masters in Afrocentric Counseling, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and a self-taught Indigenous Anthropologist. The creation Ubuntu is the result of a combination of: 35+ years working as a counselor in DC Government social service agencies with the poorest and darkest DC residents, 42+ years studying pre-colonial Classical African History/culture, and the system of racism/white supremacy, and 22+ years studying and visiting various types of 12 step programs. It is also the result of Ms. Morgan's personal need for a safe space to talk about racism/white supremacy and how they impact her and her familys' life 24/7. Ubuntu has been a 40 year effort for Ms. Morgan, such that it is the 1st 12 step program that specifically addresses the implicit bias and historical/intergeneration trauma induced by racism. It functions like other 12 step programs except that it's objective is to specifically help people change their racialized thinking by providing a safe, supportive environment to talk about racism and provides racial literacy training, encourages it's fellows to become racial justice activists and avenues to work on racial justice projects. The American Psychiatric Association says racialized or colonized thinking is too common in America to be a mental illness and is therefore a cultural phenomena that, non the less, needs to be addressed. Ubuntu answers the need as a culturally specific neutralize racism program as it's rooted in African matriarchal cultural values of social equity, communalism, cooperation, and peace vs the European patriarchal culture values social inequity, individualism, competition, and violence…all of which fosters racialized thinking and behavior. This workshop will explain why culture is the solution to change one's racialized thinking by changing our cultural premise from social inequity, individualism, competition and violence to social equity, communalism, cooperation, and peace. Why the separate trainings? Two Ubuntu 12 Step Programs will be presented, one for People of Color and one for white people. Feb 20th: for Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), to deepen cultural rootedness, learn pre-colonial Classical African History and strengthen their cultural identity. Feb 27th: for Non-BIPOC (White and Caucasian) to decolonize their thinking and actions, learn to relate and partner equitably with BIPOC, and encourage other white people to do the same.