A Recorded Series for Church Leaders

ANTIRACIST PRACTICES FOR FAITHFUL LEADERSHIP

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Antiracist Practices for Faithful Leadership is a 6-session recorded series seeks to equip leaders with an awareness of their own complicity with white supremacy, and expand their tools to embody antiracist leadership. Whether your leadership has been centered in racial justice for decades or you are yearning to take steps to embody antiracist values in your ministry, this recorded series will offer an opportunity to learn, explore, and practice bringing racial justice to the core of your leadership. Each session is accompanied by a reflection guide with coaching questions to propel you to next steps and action.

Teachers: Jessica Vazquez Torres and Shawna Bowman
Reflection Guide Writers: Zeena Regis and Shani McIlwain
Length: 6 sessions, 30-40 minutes each
Method: Individuals will be given access to the recorded series and reflection guides through the NEXT Church website, upon purchase. Groups, please allow 48 hours to receive group access. You will be contacted by NEXT Church staff with instructions.

RENTAL OPTIONS

COSTADD ONSRENTAL LENGTH
INDIVIDUAL RATE$8990 days
GROUP RATE
(includes 5 viewers)
$299+$29 for each additional viewer180 days
GROUP RATE with FACILITATION
(includes 10 viewers)
$1299+$29 for each additional viewer180 days
COHORT LITE PACKAGE
(10 participants)
$2999ongoing access
FULL COHORT PACKAGE
(10 participants)
$6299ongoing access
COSTADD ONSRENTAL LENGTH
INDIVIDUAL RATE$8990 days
GROUP RATE
(includes 5 viewers)
$299+$29 for each additional viewer180 days
GROUP RATE with FACILITATION
(includes 10 viewers)
$1299+$29 for each additional viewer180 days
COHORT LITE PACKAGE
(includes 10 participants)
$2999ongoing access
FULL COHORT
(includes 10 participants)
$6299ongoing access
LEARN MORE ABOUT PACKAGES

This rental is designed for one individual who desires to rent and watch the recorded series on their own for personal use.

This rental is designed for groups who want to experience the recorded series as a collective. This package includes:

  • 5 viewers
  • additional viewers can be added for $29 per person
  • full access to all six sessions and materials for 180-day rental period

The purchaser will receive instructions through email on how the rest of their group will receive access upon purchase.

This package is designed for groups who want to experience the recorded series as a collective, with the assistance of a trained NEXT Church facilitator. This package includes:

  • 10 participants
  • additional participants can be added for $29 per person
  • 6 hours of facilitation with a trained facilitator
  • full access to all six sessions and materials for 180-day rental period

The purchaser will receive instructions through email on how the rest of their group will receive access upon purchase.

While most groups use the facilitation hours in 6 one-hour sessions, these hours can be configured to best meet the group’s needs. Groups can contract for more hours on an as needed basis once their facilitator has been assigned.

This package is designed for groups who want to experience the recorded series as a coached cohort, with the leadership of a trained NEXT Church coach who has experience leading this series, but perhaps don’t have the funds or capacity for a full cohort experience. This package includes:

  • 10 participants
  • 6 cohort sessions (90 minutes in length)
  • 20 individual coaching sessions following the 6 cohort sessions, 2 per participant (50 minutes in length)
  • 1 trained coach
  • full access to all six sessions and materials on an on-going basis

The purchaser will receive instructions through email on how the rest of their group will receive access upon purchase.

This package is ideal for presbytery teams, church antiracism teams, and denominational teams who want to experience a NEXT Church cohort with participants from their own group or context. The individual coaching sessions are meant to be a taste of coaching and to help with individual next steps following the group sessions.

For questions about tailoring this cohort to your group’s specific size or other configurations, please contact Jen James for options.

This package is designed for groups who want to experience the recorded series through a full coached cohort, with the leadership of two trained NEXT Church coaches who have experience leading this series. This package comes with:

  • 10 participants
  • 6 cohort sessions (90 minutes in length)
  • 50 individual coaching sessions, 5 per participant in between cohort sessions (50 minutes in length)
  • 2 trained coaches
  • full access to all six sessions and materials on an on-going basis

The purchaser will receive instructions through email on how the rest of their group will receive access upon purchase.

This package is ideal for presbytery teams, church antiracism teams, and denominational teams who want to experience a full NEXT Church cohort with participants from their own group or context.

For questions about tailoring this cohort to your group’s specific size, please contact Jen James for options.

“The teachers were beyond awesome. The concepts were practical and transferable.”

“Antiracism Practices for Faithful Leadership was an incredibly important learning and growing experience. I am beyond excited to share this with my congregation and see how God’s Spirit brings us into new ways of being!”

“Stirring, action-provoking, and liberating. These recordings are essential tools for those in church leadership roles.”

“The videos were awesome! I really appreciated the practical skills in assessing where a church is.”

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Jessica Vazquez Torres

Jessica Vazquez Torres

Teacher

Jessica Vazquez Torres is a proven leader with 20 years-experience in antiracism, anti-oppression, and cultural competency workshop development and facilitation. Jessica is the National Program Director for Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training. She is deeply committed to dismantling the socially constituted structures and cultural dynamics that marginalize and minoritize People of Color, Queer, and immigrant communities and limit their access to the resources they need to thrive. Jessica, a 1.5-Generation ESL Queer Latina of Puerto Rican descent, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Florida, a Master of Divinity from Christian Theological Seminary, and a Master of Theological Studies from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. She has co-authored a four-session adult study on the history of racism in the United States. Jessica has presented at the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Studies annual meeting as well as during the gathering of the Society for Christian Ethics. Her papers were titled: “The Suffering that Pulls Us Together & Pulls Us Apart: Moral Injury, Race, and the Challenge of Solidarity in Social Justice Work” (2019), “Does Moral Injury Have a Color? On Moral Injury and Race in the United States” (2014), “Race and Virtue: The Practice and Ethics of Race Based Caucusing” (2012). When not on a plane, Jessica attempts to become a bread baker, cultivates community with her spouse Laura, walks (sometimes for exercise), and sings songs badly with full abandon.

Shawna Bowman

Shawna Bowman

Teacher

Rev. Shawna Bowman is an artist and pastor doing ministry with the creative and justice-seeking folks at Friendship Presbyterian Church in Chicago. Shawna is Co-founder of Creation Lab, an Arts Incubator and Co-op Studio at the intersection of creativity, spirituality and prophetic imagination in Edgewater. Shawna is also Affiliate Faculty and Associate Director of Field Ed & Experiential Education at McCormick Theological Seminary and serves on the Board of Directors at The Night Ministry. They are an organizer and facilitator with Crossroads Antiracism Organizing and Training, also providing support to Chicago Regional Organizing for Antiracism (Chicago ROAR).

Zeena Regis

Zeena Regis

Reflection Guide Writer

Zeena Regis has worked in hospice and palliative care as a chaplain and grief counselor since 2012. Her training includes a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Agnes Scott College and a Master of Divinity from Columbia Theological Seminary, where she was honored with the HJ Riddle Memorial Award for excellence in pastoral care. She is the founder of the Threshold Planning Project and creator of the Breakthrough After Loss coaching program. Zeena is also a frequent contributor to Presbyterians Today. She lives in Decatur, Georgia with her spouse, teenager, and two spoiled pups.

Shani McIlwain

Shani McIlwain

Reflection Guide Writer

Known for her candid personal stories, Shani E. McIlwain weaves her “messy” moments of life into practical teaching lessons for others. She is a sought-after speaker, pulpit supply preacher, retreat leader, and a Ruling Elder at Faith Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Washington, DC, and currently Vice Moderator of National Capital Presbytery. She serves on the NEXT Church strategy team as a group facilitator and an executive coach, leading individuals and groups in faithful and transparent conversations about dismantling racism and white supremacy.

One of the reasons I keep coming back to this series – Antiracist Practices for Faithful Leaders – in many ways, is my own conditioning and training as a seminary trained person. And really the awareness of how my seminary education taught me to think of the questions of racial justice as a sort of heart commitment… that those questions were parallel to ministry, not the heart of ministry. Not the core, foundational, organizing principle out of which I moved. And I think for a long time that really hindered how I approached the work of antiracism. It was always programmatic. It was a thing that we did, but it wasn’t a question of how did we “be.” – Jessica Vazquez Torres

NEXT Church is committed to making resources accessible to everyone, regardless of church or personal budgets.

To inquire about scaled pricing or for other recorded series questions, contact Jen James.