OCTOBER 2020: Anti-Racist Holiday Preparedness Learning Cohort
About this Event
Let's gather, discuss and strategize how to initiate productive, open conversations with people in our lives about bias and racism. Prepare yourself for the holiday season by increasing your understanding of Bias, Privilege and Microaggressions. Also learn tips and skills for how to have difficult conversations. All are invited to attend however this guided cohort experience is geared for beginners.
Cohort participants will engage in learnings and conversations to examine, confront, and address the racial patterns that are embedded in our lives and that are all too readily accepted as the norm.
Topics will include:
Dates: This 4-week cohort will take place Wednesdays in October. Oct 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 5:00-6:30 pm PT, 6:00 – 7:30 MT, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm CT, 8:00-9:30 ET
Cost: $110 per person
Let's gather, discuss and strategize how to initiate productive, open conversations with people in our lives about bias and racism. Prepare yourself for the holiday season by increasing your understanding of Bias, Privilege and Microaggressions. Also learn tips and skills for how to have difficult conversations. All are invited to attend however this guided cohort experience is geared for beginners.
Cohort participants will engage in learnings and conversations to examine, confront, and address the racial patterns that are embedded in our lives and that are all too readily accepted as the norm.
Topics will include:
- What is unconscious bias? How does it work and how can we work to reprogram ourselves?
- What privilege is, who has it and how it works for them, as well as how power and privilege are connected, and how the misuse of power and privilege become oppression.
- Practice identifying and managing microaggressions.
- Strategies for handling difficult conversations effectively.
Dates: This 4-week cohort will take place Wednesdays in October. Oct 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 5:00-6:30 pm PT, 6:00 – 7:30 MT, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm CT, 8:00-9:30 ET
Cost: $110 per person