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Social Emotional Leftist: Guest Speaker; Gig Teacher
Teaching Social Emotional Learning + Socialist Politic:
the Intersection of the Interpersonal + Institutional
Bio + Testimonies
One-Off Workshops + Longer Term Courses
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Free Consultation: (1 hour)
Bio: Pierce Delahunt, Social Emotional Leftist, M.Ed.
For those who hunger, give bread
For those with bread, give hunger for justice
Pierce Delahunt (he/they) holds a Master of Education (M.Ed.) from the Institute for Humane Education. Their research was a study of activist-education programs throughout the country. They grew up in the occupied Lenape territories of New York and New Jersey. They currently live in the occupied Muwekma Ohlone territory of Berkeley, California, and pay the respective Land Tax.
Pierce has worked with CISV, Youth Empowered Action, SMASH Academy, the Coalition for Healthy School Food, Camp Common Ground, MySexBio, and other activist and education programs since 2010. They teach the interpersonal and the institutional as integral to each other, because they are. Their fields are Social Emotional Learning and Political Economy, including activism, social justice, class analysis, and Socialist economics (or as they like to call it: economics).
Pierce works from the frame that individualist social-emotional learning is insufficient: Our capacity to have fulfilling lives and relationships cannot come at the expense of others’ abilities to do the same.
Testimonies
“I can tell the passion of the facilitator; really empowering. I also appreciate the space Pierce held for discussions. It felt like a safe space.”
- F*cking C*pitalism, Adult Participant“It feels so good to hear a White man tell the truth”
- SEL for Social Justice, Black Indigenous Female College Student“I also cannot express enough how grateful I am that your program fell into my lap during a pandemic. The experiences we had learning with you will impact us for the rest of our lives and hopefully fuel some change in this world.”
- Food Justice, Hosting Teacher of a High School Class“I thought this [Food Justice course with Coalition for Healthy School Food] was going to come in and be like, ‘Come on, everybody! Let’s eat healthy!’ but nuh, like nah, he is like ‘Rich people control everything we eat’ and I am like whaa…”
- Food Justice, High School Student“ I just want to say I really love the class, and appreciate everything we are learning. My dad already told me no more talking about Capitalism at the dinner table.”
- Food Justice, High School Student“[I learned] 1) When one need doesn’t get met for a long time, other needs will also start to not get met; 2) Offering alternatives can be a way to disguise our request of saying how things impacted us; 3) “Giraffe Ears”: all people ever say are “please” (sometimes in the form of “fuck you”) and “thank you”; 4) Advise isn’t an empathic response, though sometimes non-empathic responses can be helpful.”
- Somatic NVC, Adult Participant“I continue to be shocked about how intertwined racial injustice and food related injustice are intertwined, and that really stuck with me because of how much I realized I didn’t even know”
- Food Justice, High School Student“One of the things that stuck to me is that child labor laws don’t apply to agriculture. It was something I wasn’t educated about and it was shocking to me how hard these children working at farms at such a young age.”
- Food Justice, High School Student“I’m thinking more deeply about what it means to set boundaries (as protective force) vs inflict punishment, and how instead of punishment we can still have restorative practices even with those whose judgment we don’t agree with. I don’t know how this would look in practice yet, given so many of us have deep-seated shame and fear. But I do know connecting with people on their needs and feelings are essential to both mitigate harm due to white supremacy, sexism etc. as well as slowly shifting folks away from these forms of oppression (and from domination and subjugation at large).”
- Somatic NVC, Adult Participant“[Something that stuck with me is] The amount of politics involved in having a good safe work environment and the fact that there has to be any discussion to make sure workers are being cared for or at least not put in harm’s way.”
- Food Justice, High School Student“I like that idea of humans acting as more of those “healing factors”, that we can coexist with nature in a healthy way — that give and take mentality. Reasonings such as “humans are evil” and “the world would be better off without humans” sound more like excuses than solutions to me.”
- Food Justice, High School Student“I only have one question and that is what is the best thing that we can do to make an impact on this problem. Like right now”
- Food Justice, High School Student
One-Off Workshops
Hearts starve as well as bodies…
Yes, it is Bread we fight for,
but we fight for Roses too
Social Emotional Learning for Social Justice: (primary through adult)
Applying institutional/group analysis to interpersonal, mainstream SEL
NonViolent Communication + Power: (primary through adult)
NVC practice as a tool for collective liberation
Liberatory Veganism (junior high through adult)
Vegan praxis in a political context of White supremacy
Social Movement Analysis: (junior high through adult)
Lessons in organizing from the evolution of social movements
F*cking C*pitalism Series: (adult / with permission)
Facilitated discussions on sexuality and political economy
(topics include the Incarceration System, Drug Policy, + Family Structures)
Eco-Nomics: (junior high through adult)
Economics as if people and the planet and mattered (fighting AntiSocialism)
US Gov + Politics: (junior high through adult)
How the US government + political systems actually work
US Imperialism: (secondary through adult)
Historical and current practices of US foreign relations
Longer-Term Courses
Emotion Enaction: (primary through adult)
Social Emotional Learning for deep integration
Food Justice: (junior high through adult)
Systems analysis of food intersectionality
F*cking C*pitalism Series: (adult / with permission)
Facilitated discussions on sexuality and political economy
Eco-Nomics: (junior high through adult)
Historical look at Capitalism, Socialism, and collective freedom today
Comics Politic: (junior high through adult)
Comic book readings on sociopolitical history, analysis, journalism, and justice
Book Me!
“Never pay for anything; Never charge anything; Transform your relationship to worth. Never do anything for money.”
- Marshall Rosenberg
My Resume
In Person Request: ±$150 per hour/class (sliding scale) + Travel + Referrals
Virtual Request: ±$100 per hour/class (sliding scale) + Referrals
Please do not let the numbers scare you! It is for those who can afford to offer it!
In lieu of cash offerings, I also accept community investments. Ex:
Commitment to full payment toward a speaker of color (I can help with this!);
Integrating a Critical Service Learning program;
Granting space for a Black/BIPOC Student Union;
Donating toward financial aid, a movement organization, et cetera
Free Consultation: (1 hour)
Media
The Union: Real Talk About Personal Growth
Making Friends With Trauma
Using Humility as a Tool for Growth
Trauma: Holiday Edition
