Exploring Class: A Weekend Workshop

Exploring Class: A Weekend Workshop Saturday and Sunday, March 11th & 12th, 10 AM-6PM
An opportunity for intensive dialogue about a taboo topic! What class did you grow up in? What strengths and limitations came out of your class background? How has your class background affected your relationships with people of the same and different classes? What are key elements of your class culture? How do different class cultures look? What would you like to ask people who grew up in completely different class backgrounds? ??What are the larger economic and political factors affecting class now? ??How do class dynamics show up in your life? Your work? Your home? Your community? ??What are steps you can take to overcome class barriers in your life personally and institutionally? ??How do you decide how much to pay, how do you value different choices you make? Join a diverse group to explore these questions and more!

Location: Park Day School, Oakland, CA (accessible by BART)

Cost: We use a radical sliding scale (during the workshop you will go ?through a process, called Cost Sharing, to determine the amount you will actually pay). The average costs are often about $400, but in the past ?participants have paid between 0 and $1,200. If transportation or childcare costs would get in your way, please contact us and we will try to help. Contact us with other needs. Registration is required. For more information please contact Class ?Action: (413) 585 9709 or email, info@classism.org or register on line at http://www.classism.org <http://www.classism.org/>. Please register early, ?space is limited! ??Workshop Facilitators: Jenny Ladd, Ed.D. and Felice Yeskel, Ed.D. ??Jenny Ladd, Co-Director of Class Action, comes from a white, academic, ?agnostic, upper-class family from Cambridge, Massachusetts and inherited ?money at 21. She is an educator, wealth counselor, and donor organizer. ??Felice Yeskel, Co-Director of Class Action and Co-Founder of United for ?a Fair Economy comes from a working class Jewish family from New York ?City's lower-east side. She is an educator and activist, and the ?co-author of Economic Apartheid in America, a 2nd edition was published ?by The New Press in the fall of 2005. ??Registration Deadline, March 3rd