Description

This hybrid workshop invites faculty of African descent from diverse religious specializations to participate in an intergenerational community of early, mid and later stage faculty. Centering our Africana identities, spiritualities, histories, and knowledges, this community seeks to co-create conditions for our renewed imagination, vocational alignment and agency. As a relational and creative community, this hybrid workshop will offer an experience in which we 

• re-member the joy, wonder, awe, and purposes of our teacher-scholar-artist vocations;
• explore the stories and re-craft the narratives that shape our personal and vocational trajectories;
• access play, humor, and fun as core resources for creativity, connection, and well-being; and
• co-create a relational container that facilitates support for healing and resilience

Goals

• To unearth and curate a repository of our indigenous knowledges and resources for our teaching styles, specializations, and tools.
• To define what thriving means and describe the necessary conditions for our thriving to occur, personally and collectively. 
• To interrogate the institutional reward systems that shape our agency, desires, and imaginations.
• To examine the dynamic, evolving relationship between our vocational formation and community-focused aspirations toward wholeness and liberation.