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The PAVRO Professional Development Team is Proud to Present:
Serving With, Not To: Understanding Power Dynamics in Volunteer-Community Relationships with Breauna Dorelus
Join us Wednesday, October 1st at 12 PM ET
Volunteering is often rooted in good intentions but without awareness of power dynamics, even well-meaning service can unintentionally reinforce harm. This workshop invites exploration into the often-overlooked but very present dynamics between individual volunteers, the leaders that engage them, and the community members they all serve alongside. Together, we’ll unpack how pity, paternalism and organizational structures shape these dynamics, and what to do to navigate power in healthy ways.
Presenter Bio:
Breauna Dorelus is the Founder and Cause Consultant at Connecting the Cause, a consultancy dedicated to dismantling harmful volunteer practices implemented by organizations and volunteers specifically towards Black and brown communities. She started her career as an AmeriCorps member and spent 10+ years in various volunteer management roles in humanitarian aid efforts, refugee resettlement and ministry. Breauna believes in community inclusion in all aspects of the volunteer process, and has dedicated her work to ensuring that service is centered around co-dreaming and not harmful charity. For the past 8+ years as a consultant, she's served as a keynote, speaker, session and webinar host, trainer, facilitator, and builder. Breauna has worked on multiple projects helping co-create ethos, philosophy, and practices for those who wish to walk alongside others. Her heart work is connected to seeing others have moments of reckoning and reimagination as they move from charity to Co-Dreaming. In her spare time, she loves playing with dinosaurs with her 4 and 3 year old, thrifting, and having a hot matcha latte.
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