Learning & Movement Building
YWCA Madison’s Learning and Movement Building team (formerly known as the Race & Gender Equity Department) supports people, communities, and organizations in transforming relationships, cultures, and structures towards intersectional racial justice, collective learning, and liberation.
deepening and broadening racial justice, equity & belonging
Since 2002, the Learning and Movement Building department at YWCA Madison has created opportunities for racial justice learning and unlearning, as well as offering collaborative consulting services for transformative change that centers, deepens, and broadens racial justice, equity, and belonging within organizational systems and cultures.
Our services invite people, communities, and organizations to embrace the need to develop an ongoing racial justice practice that is rooted in both:
Recognizing, unlearning, and dismantling beliefs, behaviors and practices that perpetuate racism, harm and inequity.
Identifying, learning and strengthening beliefs, behaviors and practices that co-create equity, healing and belonging.
Our philosophy and method of service across our programming is holistic (whole person and systems capacity building), experiential (content, skill building, embodied, as well as emotional based learning focused on the development of ongoing practice), collaborative (co-creative partnership, community of practice and shared accountability) and restorative (healing centered practices for conflict transformation).
Creating Equitable Organizations
Collaborative contracted services to support organizations in bringing forth transformation centered in racial justice.
Racial Justice Summit
The Racial Justice Summit is among the largest annual gatherings of practitioners and community members dedicated to racial justice learning, unlearning, and collective healing in the United States.