THE INTENSIVE WORKSHOP
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Is It Right for Me?
The Intensive Workshop is designed for white women with class privilege who are looking to better understand the role access to capital plays in our current racial disparities, eager to align their wealth to their values, and are looking for a like-minded community.
How Is It Organized?
The Intensive Workshop—CLTV’s flagship program—is a 9-session course that brings together small cohorts of 6-12 Boston-area participants over the course of 18-20 weeks. The Workshop is divided into 9 live and asynchronous sessions, segmented into 3 topical sections, designed and facilitated by content experts. The workshop culminates with participants drafting and adopting individual, cohort, and family action commitments and strives to foster an alumni community that endures after the workshop’s completion.
Community
The CLTV cohort includes the other women participating in the specific Intensive Workshop at the same time. Intensive Workshop cohorts are usually kept quite small, including no more than twelve (12) women per cohort. It offers a group of peers to build and support a safe and bold space for discussion of typically taboo topics, such as wealth, racism, sexism, and investments, and to provide support and learning opportunities both during and after the workshop. The workshop cohort serves as a CLTV alumni identity that will carry on after the workshop, as participants engage with the Impact Collective as alumni of the Intensive Workshop.
Each Intensive Workshop participant will be placed in an Accountability Trio, a smaller group of peers designed to develop relationships between Cohort members to support problem solving and mutual accountability.The Trio meets during every interval between workshop sessions, a practice that adds immense value to the entire workshop experience. Accountability Trios will review assignments for the upcoming session and discuss guiding questions, as well as problem solve, support, and challenge each other.
Each workshop is facilitated by a professional racial justice facilitator and a workshop alum who work as a team. Facilitators of the Intensive Workshop are peers to workshop participants: wealthy white women who are also working to help reduce the racial gap through their influence and affluence.Guest SpeakersA number of sessions feature guest speakers such as Chris White, Tiffany Hawkins, Ethan Kerr, and Janine Firpo.
Commitment
We will explore Individual and Cohort Commitments during the workshop and expect all participants to personalize and adopt their own Individual Action Commitments as well as to participate in the Cohort Action Commitment. We also expect participants to personalize and adopt a Family Commitment with their spouses/partners outside the workshop, as relevant. The Impact Collective provides example commitments for participants and additional materials and tools will be provided to help facilitate and support all action commitments.
- Attend all workshop sessions.
- Complete as many assignments as possible. If you have already engaged with a knowledge assignment, please review it again before our session.
- Make individual commitments to action.
- Maintain the confidentiality of all participants.
- Meet with your Accountability Trio in between sessions.
- Participate in your trio’s action commitment.
- Life can get busy. You should not scramble to “complete” assignments “on time.” The sessions are designed to support participation regardless of whether all assignments have been completed in advance. The assignments are prepared for your use before and after sessions.
Respect the Work |
Respect the Community |
Respect Yourself |
Each Intensive Workshop participant will meet with a CLTV coach during the course of the workshop to help support action planning and commitments.
Action Assignments
Action Assignments serve as our calls to action. They help us to prepare for action, and to reflect on, integrate, and activate the learnings from knowledge assignments and from discussions during sessions. They usually consist of assignment preparation actions, accountability trio actions, and independent actions.
Knowledge Assignments are external and CLTV-created resources to help us strengthen and expand our knowledge. They usually consist of books, articles, videos, podcasts, and interviews.
Questions are created to deepen focus, engagement, and personal reflection on Action and Knowledge Assignments and can also serve as prompts for conversations in your trios.
The Optional Knowledge Assignments offer a deeper dive for those with interest and time. We can offer additional resources for most topics we cover. Just ask!
What’s the Cost?
We believe it is essential for workshop participants to invest in their own growth, begin to acknowledge their wealth in relation to others, and account for the value of the workshop experience.
We have individual fee options to accommodate different people. All levels offer:
$1,500
This fee tier is accessible to women with less discretion over annual spending and/or younger women who are beginning their careers and wealth-building.
$3500
This fee tier is appropriate for women who are able to commit to the full cost of the Intensive Workshop without negotiating for this sort of discretionary spending.
$8,000
This fee tier is appropriate for women who are ready to fully invest not only in their own growth and development as change agents but also in the growth and development of the Impact Collective.