Rising Unstuck: Embodied Baking Pedagogy

What:
A six-week workshop where participants will be simultaneously baking and engaging in critical
discussions and self-reflective writings about oppression. This workshop uses baking as a
creative, embodied practice to improve critical pedagogy and facilitate a critical learning
environment about oppression, privilege, and power. Participants will be co-creating and leading
the workshop through its six-week duration. In addition to providing a recipe to bake, during
each person’s week to lead, they will choose three readings for the group to focus on. Readings
will come from a selection of short critical readings by scholarly and non-scholarly sources
around themes such as basics of oppression and privilege, activist histories and memoirs, trauma
healing and embodiment, critical pedagogy, community organizing, etc. The readings will
provide a starting point for the self-reflective writings and critical discussions to help participants
make connections between the readings’ concepts and their general life, relationships, and
community. The goals of this project are to increase participants’ capacity to do anti-oppression
work, share ideas of liberation and transformative relationships in their lives, and work towards a
practice of consciousness-raising and paradigm shifting.

When:
Six-week workshop and two additional meetings (prior and after)
Saturdays, 3:00pm-7:00pm from March 2nd - April 20th (March 24th on SUNDAY)

Saturday March 2nd prep meeting held at PNCA, 511 NW Broadway, 3pm
Saturday March 9th, 16th, Sunday March 24th, Saturday March 30th, April 6th, 13th, Eliot
Center, 3-7pm
Saturday April 20th post-workshop meeting held at PNCA, 511 NW Broadway, 3pm (optional
but attendance is deeply appreciated)

Where:
Eliot Center, 1226 SW Salmon St, Portland, OR 97205, in the Fuller Kitchen, Event entrance is
in the alley/breezeway off of 12th Ave (door on left toward main sanctuary space).

Who:
Looking for 5 participants, anyone over 12, no baking expertise required we can work on baking
skills together, no anti-oppression knowledge required we will be exploring concepts together
from multiple perspectives and experiences, able to commit to attending prep meeting and all six
workshops (post-meeting is optional but attendance will be appreciated)

Why:
You have an interest in baking, liberation, anti-oppression work, community building, or trauma
informed learning. You want to have discussions about power and oppression that apply to your
life and collectively brainstorm everyday practical steps for creating change. You want to
increase your capacity to discuss privilege and oppression in your relationships. You want to
explore how baking impacts critical learning.

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How:
Email me ASAP @ jlundy@pnca.edu, with: your name, a sentence or two about why you are
interested in participating, how you found out about this, confirm that you are available and can
commit to attending all the workshops and prep meeting, let me know if there are any access
needs I should be aware of, any other information you feel I should know/you want to share, as
well as any questions you might have for me.
EMAIL DEADLINE is February 20th at 6pm
By February 23rd, I will select and notify the 5 participants who will be a part of the workshop.
Depending on overall interest and response, if you aren’t selected, I will also notify you then. I
appreciate anyone interested and hope that I can do this again, perhaps with more people.

Accessibility & Other Info:

Eliot Center: Street-level, wheelchair accessible entrance available, some extra space in parts of
kitchen but some areas are narrow.
PNCA: Most of building is wheelchair accessible, stairs and ramp into building, we will meet in
the Atrium, the 1st floor open area.

There is no cost to participants to attend these workshops.

This is a new way of learning/teaching/doing community work for me and for all participants, no
one is an expert, we are all learning together. However, we are all experts of our own
experiences and perspectives, some of which will likely include past traumas and influence from
oppressive dynamics/systems. This is an open learning environment that will involve discussions
of privileges and oppressions, the structural and systemic powers that influences various aspects
of our lives. Privilege and oppression are not feelings, we do not simply feel privileged or feel
oppressed. We can have emotional reactions and feelings because of both, but they are ultimately
about systems of power. As we engage in discussions and this learning process together, it is
expected that you will respect others and be prepared to examine the ways privilege and
oppression impact your life and the ways that your emotional responses may relate to systems of
power.

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