Unlearning Programme
Starts May, 2025
What is the ‘Beyond White Supremacy unlearning Programme’?
A year-long journey to deeply unlearn and build new ways
Intimate group of up to 14 leaders and change-makers
12 x monthly 2-hour live coaching workshops online
Provocative and inspiring resources to challenge your growth
90-minutes of 1-2-1 tailored accountability coaching
A buddy partner to transform personal and professional you
Sliding scale investment from £1,100 with early bird offers available
Do you recognise any of these traits in your workplace culture?
If yes, then this course is for you!
The 12 white supremacy Culture Traits
These are, in fact, the 12 white supremacy culture traits that have become synonymous with modern organisational culture. If you recognise these traits, which, let’s be real, most of us do, you might be familiar with the everyday problems they create:
We say we’re committed to DEI, but the experience of those in marginalised groups remains poor or unchanged
Never get to the real talk about the real issues because we stay in the ‘nice and polite’ sphere, which means nothing changes
A growing ‘us and them’ divide between generations, genders, ethnicities and social classes in the workplace
Demotivated teams who feel misaligned with the values of the workplace, especially as the world changes around us
Change programmes that never result in the kind of change needed, with subtle push-back and resistance getting in the way
Increased numbers of people burning out or struggling with mental wellbeing and an absence of a genuine culture of care
Disconnected or demotivated teams with engagement and contentment levels low or challenges with churn
Self-censorship, low levels of psychological safety, and fear of cancel culture that stop people wanting to be authentic at work
You STILL have an entirely homogeneous leadership team, and there are few signs that this will change anytime soon
More than ever, we need to unlearn harm and grow leaders fit for our times.
This programme is for any leader or change-maker seeking to challenge, change, or break the rules. It is a space to connect to new hope and develop new skills with the power to build better organisations, cultures and communities.
Are you…
Struggling with the gap between who we say we are and who we really are but don’t have the language or insight to know how to change it?
Is it racism? Is it patriarchy? Is it classism? Is it you? Is it the culture? You need guidance to bring more updated practices into your leadership.
Are you…
Determined to role model the future of leadership where showing up for social justice is not an add-on or an afterthought?
You might be a leader, coach or facilitator who wants to be sure you are building cultures and teams that don’t replicate harmful ways or reinforce supremacy.
Are you…
Craving a space to be challenged to unlearn and think critically about how you can better use your position to make meaningful change?
Deep down, you know you need to shift from feeling powerless to having more strategies that create the kind of change you want to see.
Are you…
Feeling alarmed by the political climate and want a space to process, digest and question how you show up as a leader in the world today?
Perhaps you’re feeling alone and need solidarity and connection with others who want to build supremacy-free lives and workplaces.
programme Overview
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Workshop 1: Connect to our Challenge
We meet each other and co-create our supportive Unlearning space together
Introduction to the foundations of white supremacy culture
Personal and organisational diagnostics of the traits
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Workshop 2: Right to Comfort/Fear of Open Conflict
We explore how entitlement, expectations for safety and a lack of appreciation of healthy conflict stop us from building trust, taking accountability, and solving at source
Workshop 3: Defensiveness and Denial
We investigate how defensiveness and denial block radical honesty and acceptance of hard truths and inadvertently reinforce supremacy in a multitude of ways
Workshop 4: Sense of Urgency
We consider how our relationship with time and our approaches to prioritisation keep the important stuff from getting done or funded
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Workshop 5: Power Hoarding
We explore how power is used to maintain white supremacy and suppress the voices and contributions of those outside of the dominant group
Workshop 6: Owning the Standards
We unpack how perfectionism, one right way and paternalism come together to define standards and rules based on the perspective of the dominant group only
Workshop 7: Worship of the Written Word
We consider the over-value of the formal written word and how it creates hierarchies in what and who is valued, leading to the erasure and dismissal of what is not
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Workshop 8: Either/Or Binary
We explore how black-and-white thinking leads to a narrow worldview and builds division and othering at a time when expansive and creative thinking is essential
Workshop 9: Believing in Objectivity
We investigate our obsession with science and facts without bringing the critical thinking needed to make space for subjectivity, emotions and multiple truths
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Workshop 10: Progress is Bigger and More
We sit with the internalised drive for productivity and scale and explore how this shapes our ideas about worth and value in different spaces and contexts
Workshop 11: Individualism
We connect with the losses of individualism and explore what needs to change in us to receive, build and activate supremacy-free communities
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Workshop 12: Our Commitment to Change
We appreciate your personal growth journeys and undertake collective work to develop a set of ongoing commitments to put learnings to practice and action
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What to expect from the programme…
the practicalities
The programme runs from 8 May 2025 – 7 May 2026, with 2-hour GMT online lunchtime workshops on the second Thursday of each month.
You’re committing to participate for a year and to be an active member of a community focused on self-enquiry and testing out new ways and practices.
You can choose how and when to use your coaching time, depending on your needs and personal growth objectives.
Sessions will be recorded so that you never miss any of the learning and can rewatch sessions that feel particularly powerful.
The final community event will most likely be held in person in a central London location, but we’ll design this considering the geography of the cohort.
The Outcomes
This is an unlearning experience. It is not about pressure for outcomes; instead, it is a programme to bring about a new way of being, relating, and leading, which will look different for each participant. That said, we know that you want to invest your precious time, money and energy into meaningful places, so here are some of the things past participants have gained as a result:
the Investment
Moving beyond white supremacy means taking responsible action where we can. This sliding scale of investment is offered and we invite you to consider what group feels right for you.
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For people with financial security, own property or personal savings, or in organisations paying on your behalf. By choosing this pricing, you are paying it forward to others who don’t have your level of privilege.
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For people who have access to a steady income and do not have to think about their basic needs. Making this investment will impact other discretionary spending, but it’s a short-term impact for a long-term investment.
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For people needing financial assistance to support their learning and would not be able to participate without this option being available. We allocate a few spaces to each cohort to facilitate this.
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For those wanting to join along with two other colleagues but don’t have enough people to commission their own cohort but seek a collective learning experience to elevate impact and supercharge change.
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For teams seeking to experience the programme as part of their leadership development, please reach out to request a bespoke proposal and cost.
There is the option to pay quarterly or choose to pay in one annual instalment. Early bird discounts apply when you book before 1st March 2025.
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If you’re ready to sign up or would like to chat about whether this programme is right for you, please book a 20-minute call with either Letesia or Tas. We look forward to meeting you!
If you can’t find a time that works for you, send us an email: eloise@timefornewways.com
YOUR FACILITATOR
Taslim Tharani
I’m Tas, a British-born, East African Asian, Ismaili Muslim woman from a thrice migrant family. I draw on my lived experience of oppression as well as privilege to explore how we can both experience harm from and be complicit in upholding white supremacy culture. This work is complex and messy, it needs space for reflection and honesty to witness the truth of who we are and how we behave, I’m an organisational psychologist, leadership coach, and facilitator who brings warmth, encouragement and challenge to help you examine power and privilege so that you can shift how you relate to yourself and find ways of showing up differently in relationships and for systems change.
YOUR FACILITATOR
LETESIA GIBSON
I'm Letesia. I'm a perfect combination of Black Jamaican and White British. I’m a hetero-woman with working-class roots. I bring many talents to support people on this programme – I’m an anti-racism, equity and belonging practitioner, a leadership coach, an organisational consultant, a builder of progressive workplaces and a visionary for what is possible! I’m told I bring a balance of tenderness and challenge to my work, which is a useful combination to help people break through discomfort, grow confidence and be ambitious for impact and change. I deeply believe that working with these traits facilitates transformational growth, expands world views and lays the foundations for participants to go on and embed more structural change in their personal and work environments.
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