Join Sara Farooqi, Founder and Facilitator at The Conscious Collectivist, for this discussion-based session on Discerning Dysfunction.
Systemic oppression often inhibits our ability, as BIPOC folks, to fully trust the environments we are in or the feedback we are receiving:
Is this person biased?
Am I being targeted?
Is it the system?
Or did I actually do something wrong?
Not only are these questions painful to hold, but a lack of genuine feedback can also stifle our internal growth and development.
This session is designed as a guided community conversation. We will sit with these questions together and draw from one another's lived experiences and wisdom to co-create a set of tools that each of us can benefit from.
About Sara
Sara is a mama, community builder, poet, facilitator, and friend. Growing up as a middle child, and a third-culture immigrant kid, she found herself most at home in the nebulous “in betweens,” bridging cultural and generational divides to ensure everyone felt included and their needs were met. She also developed a critical lens and deeper appreciation for the malleability of “cultural norms.” What was a given truth in one cultural context could be completely opposite in another. She realized that culture is something we actively create and it also creates us.
These perspectives have underpinned her 14+ year career working across a variety of sectors and industries as a strategic operations and culture design practitioner. Currently, through her consulting practice, Joyful Impact, LLC, she supports organizations in considering and activating operational and equity goals together.
She is also the founder and principal facilitator of the Conscious Collectivist™, a practice dedicated to celebrating interdependence and mutuality. Her work focuses on breaking the cycle of toxic individualism by nurturing sacred desire for growth in spiritually-rooted and community-centered ways.
Sara holds an MBA, with an emphasis in socially responsible business, from the Lorry I. Lokey School of Business at Mills College. She received her bachelor's degree in sociology and Islamic cultural studies from Pitzer College. She is an alumna of the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs.