Join us for a free online roundtable, designed and delivered by Community Centred Knowledge (CCK), exploring how we can help positive futures to flourish through Anti-Racist Action and reciprocal nourishment in our communities.
Flourishing Lives and the Anti-Racist Action Group in Arts & Wellbeing invite you to our latest free online workshop exploring anti-racist action and inclusive practice in arts & wellbeing services.
We are delighted to be working in partnership with Community Centred Knowledge on this roundtable and are immensely grateful to Mama D (Co-Creator/Founder) from Community Centred Knowledge for designing and facilitating the session.
About Community Centred Knowledge
Community Centred Knowledge believes that in order for each person, each of our communities and the earth to thrive, all need to have their interlinked needs met and to experience shared care.
- It is reciprocal: we meet each other’s needs and we care for others too.
- It is collective: we are each other’s keepers and each other’s carers as individuals and
as groups. - It also involves our environments, so it is ecological: We thrive best when we care for our whole environment so that it meets our needs
- It is a matter of mutual nourishment. Nourishment is more than just eating and
drinking. It involves all of our named senses and even those we do not name. - It is breathing clean air and detecting smells.
- It is the ability to hear and hearing pleasant sounds.
- It is ensuring our skin and orifices remain unpolluted and can protect our internal
organs. - It is being able to see pleasing surroundings and each other.
- It is in having good relationships, sharing just relationships, peace and the possibility of pleasure.
‘How can we flourish, if we don’t know how to nourish?’
At CCK we feel that we are becoming disconnected from the idea of complete and reciprocal nourishment. As humans, we continue to deplete our environments, this behaviour has its impact upon us and its consequence is that we fail to be well nourished or to know how to nourish ourselves and others.
We feel that this present behaviour is rooted in our pasts and to change the future we need to treat the root causes.
Our activity is a kind of exploration of root causes. It is a way of relearning what nourishment can be and how we can connect again to life in ways that can bring a greater intentionality around nourishing to bring about a greater flourishing.
In this roundtable discussion we will:
- take you on a sensory journey through an intense paying attention to a few common, household items and the stories that they can bring our attention to.
- The journey draws on pasts that involved misguided separations and exploitations, ignorance and greed and brought us to a place where our current bodily experiences reflect these histories.
- Healing of ourselves and of the Earth, we feel, involves healing ourselves from the inside out and this may mean moving through the temporary discomfort of seeing ourselves through others lens, so that we may begin to repair our relationships with ourselves, each other and our environments.
Having these items will deepen the experience, but if you cannot access all or any of the items, feel free to draw on your memories and imaginations to journey with us and then reflect upon what we have learned along the journey.
The items are:
- A spoonful or cube of sugar
- A small piece of bread or cooked pasta or noodles or its gluten-free equivalent
- A piece of chocolate or cocoa power or hot chocolate, if you like!
- A small piece of cotton wool, or cotton cloth
- Some small amount of Vaseline or petroleum jelly
- A glass of water
We look forward to welcoming you on the journey and the sharing in the rich aftermath, when we hear about what your experience brings to you and the lessons that we can collectively draw from it.
About The Anti-Racist Action Group in Arts & Wellbeing:
The Anti-Racist Action Group in Arts & Wellbeing is a group of representatives from arts, wellbeing and race equality charities – including Flourishing Lives, HEAR Network, Race Equality Foundation, Decolonising the Archive, and Southwark Culture Health and Wellbeing Partnership – who partner with ethnically and culturally diverse organisations, facilitators, community groups, participants and people to share their knowledge, expertise, learning and lived experience to support the wider arts and wellbeing sector to explore anti-racist action, and develop wider engagement in the arts and mental health. The aim is to facilitate conversations, deepen understanding and identify opportunities for change.
This discussion is part of an ongoing series of workshops and roundtables kindly funded by The National Lottery Community Fund which support Flourishing Lives and the Anti-Racist Action Group to explore a range of topics, issues and anti-racist actions to help advocate for inclusive practice across the arts and wellbeing sector.
Supporting people to participate:
We recognise it can sometimes be hard to attend events if you’re self employed or work part time, if you are a volunteer for a project or are the only person working in a community organisation, so we are offering a limited amount of financial support to ensure everyone who wants to attend is able to. For this event we can offer a £50 bursary to five participants. Unfortunately funds are limited so we can’t support everyone, and will be allocating on a first come first served basis once the criteria is met. When you register for the workshop you will have the option to apply for one of the bursary places. On review we will be in touch with those who have been successful in receiving the financial support.
Join us to share ideas and advocate for inclusive practice and anti-racist action across the arts and wellbeing sector.
Date:
Tuesday 24th June 2025, 11am – 1pm BST