Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 The Goal: Revolutionizing Teacher Consciousness 3 The Path: Dismantling the Patriarchy, One Teacher at a Time, Through Extraordinary Pedagogies 5 How the Course Works 6 Methods and Evidence 13 How to Read This Book 14 The Chapters 17 Welcome In: A Call to Action 22 1. It''s Very Important to Do Impossible Things: Addressing Bumpy Beginnings and the Problem of Innocence With Pedagogical Shock 23 Problems: Beginnings and Innocence 24 Solution: Pedagogical Shock 32 The Framework of the Four Agreements 45 Possibilities: A Highly Ordered Teaching/Learning Context and Surprisingly Aligned Constituents 49 2. The white Supremacist Patriarchy Is Spectacular: Here''s a Simple Framework Teachers Can Use to Dismantle It (+ Enact Methods of Engagement to Counter Its Effects) 51 Problem: Lack 51 Solution: A Framework for Noticing, Naming, and Dissolving white Supremacist Patriarchal Ideology 57 Possibilities: Antiracist Mindfulness Methods for Dismantling the Tenets of the WSP in Yourself, Your School, and Our Society 65 3. Working on Weakness: Using an Ontological Framework for Personhood to Create Strength and Stamina in Existential Education 71 Problem: Weakness 71 Solution: An Ontological Framework for Personhood, a Sociospiritual Scaffold 74 Possibilities 80 4. Who In the World Are You Talking About?: Dissolving Labels With Experiential Embodied Practice 90 Problem: Labels and Avoidance 91 Solution: Notice and Name Labels 92 Solution: Experiential Embodied Practice 93 Possibilities: Increased Self-Awareness, Self-Direction, and the Beginnings of Experiential Embodied Practice 97 An Introduction to Final Projects 101 5. Asking Existential Questions of Self and Other: Unpacking Positionality and the Nature of Privilege by Sharing Gender Stories and Strengthening Empathetic Core 103 Problem: Privilege 105 Solution: Intersectional Review of Microaggressions, Macroaggressions, and Systemic Aggressions Through the Line of Sight 108 Solution: Producing Gender Stories and Public/Private Shares 110 Possibilities: Emerging Ability to Dynamically See Self and Other and Say Who Is Who 113 6. Catching the Seeds of Contempt and Colonization: Spatial Liberation and Freedom of the Black Image in white Imaginations Through Conscious Capacious Service 117 Problem: Contempt and Colonization 118 Solution: Conscious Capacious Service 121 7. #WeWillRest: Repairing Existential Exhaustion With Intentional, Decolonizing Rest to Recoup Power, Perspective, and Passion for Personhood 126 Problem: Existential Exhaustion 128 Solution: Intentional, Decolonizing Rest 130 8.

How Much Stuff Is in One Person and How Do I Make My Eyes See?: From Lacking to Enlightened Lenses for Looking at the Social and Academic Experiences of Self and Others 135 Problem: Overwhelm 136 Solution: Enlightened Lenses for Looking at the Overwhelming Social and Academic Experiences of Self and Others 139 Possibilities: Increased Capacity for Working With Overwhelm Using the Lenses of Intersectionality (and Other Enlightened Lenses for Seeing the Identities and Experiences of Every Person) 143 9. I Have No Words, Help Me Speak: Presenting Tools for Talking About the Dynamics of Visibility, Erasure, Humanization, and Dehumanization 147 Problem: Voicelessness 147 Solution: Introduction to a Language of Thriving (Along With a Language of Oppression) 149 Possibilities: Final Projects That Present Powerful Voices and Critique the Dynamics of Visibility, Erasure, Humanization, and Dehumanization 154 A Word on the Syntax of Supremacy 158 10. What If Nobody''s Broken?: Regarding Disability Through New Soulful and Somatic Methods of Visibilizing, Affirming, and Validating "Self" and "Other" 159 Problem: Brokenness 159 Solution: New Soulful and Somatic Contemplation and Movement Within and Across Spaces 164 Possibilities: A "How to See/What to Do" Exercise Toward Methods of Visibilizing, Affirming, and Validating "Self" and "Other" 166 11. What Do I Focus on First and How Do We Create Closure?: Exemplifying Ways to Support Exterior Life Equity Through Interior Life Health, Order, and Membership 171 Problem: Focus 171 Solution: Ways to Support Exterior Life Equity Through Interior Life Health, Order, and Membership, or How Do We Release Them?: Regarding Supreme Love 174 Possibilities: Introduction to Personal Liberation Projects 177 Toward Personal Liberation 179 12. Who Am I Really, and Where Do We Go From Here?: Identifying Changemakers, Doing Harambe, Taking the Pledge, and Presenting the Tribute (or Provoking Soul and Soma to Breakdowns for the Actualizations of Breakthroughs) 182 Problem: Closure 183 Solution: Identifying Changemakers, Doing Harambe, Taking The Pledge, and Presenting the Tribute (or Provoking Soul and Soma to Breakdowns for the Actualizations of Breakthroughs) 183 Possibilities: The Spark of Extraordinary Pedagogies 187 Possibilities: Rapid Transformation and Revolutionized Teacher Consciousness (i.e., Extraordinary Pedagogies) 188 Notes 191 References 197 Index 203 About the Author 211.