Courageous Conversations about Race™ | Staff and Students

In this workshop, we're taking the time and space to reflect on our personal experience and beliefs, and together explore race in our lives and the lives of others.

Glenn Singleton, author and creator of Courageous Conversation™ will be in Australia and will be joined by members of the team at Courageous Conversation South Pacific Institute in a unique opportunity to have the discussion on racial equity.

The Courageous Conversation Protocol® will provide us with tools, strategies and parameters to engage, sustain and deepen conversations about race, racism and racial equity.

• Race relations in Australia and how we got to this point
• Institutional racism in Australia and how it impacts on our day-to-day lives: who it impacts, how and why this conversation matters
• Indigenous, colour, multicultural -where are the tensions and how do we move forward
• The causes of racism
• Are we talking about race when we talk about racism?
• The Courageous Conversation protocol as a tool to have the hard conversations that lead to change
• Staying engaged in the conversation around racial equity

Location: Storey Hall Lecture Theatre (in-person only)

Date: Wednesday, 22nd March

Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Glenn Singleton

Nominated as one of the 13 top Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Consultants helping advertising companies, Glenn Singleton’s work is unique – and powerful. His influence helped Nike when they needed to respond to the market and the community.

Glenn Singleton is an author, thought-leader and strategist who has spent 30 years contributing to constructing racial equity worldwide – and developing leaders, community members and workplaces to do the same. He is the creator of Courageous Conversation™, a protocol and framework for sustained, deepened dialogue, and Beyond Diversity™ the curriculum that has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to use it.

Glenn is the Founder and CEO of Courageous Conversation™ , an agency that guides leadership development in education, government, corporation, law enforcement, and community organising. He is the award-winning author of Courageous Conversation about Race. A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools which is in its third edition, also, More Courageous Conversations about Race.

Dr. Teresa De Fazio OAM

Born in Australia (immigrant parents who fled post-war chaos) Teresa grew up experiencing the challenges – and labels (first in family, female, low SES, CALD, etc) growing up ‘different’ in a country that was increasingly defining itself as multicultural against the imposed silencing of First People ownership and rights. This lived experience has been the basis for the insights and passion brought to her work in equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Teresa is the Director of Intersect Global Partners specialising in equity and inclusion training and strategy work. She was the Manager, Cultural Diversity at Victoria University and an active researcher and academic. She is also a former Commissioner of the Victorian Multicultural Commission and remains a member of the Regional Advisory Council. She is a Board Director for Zoos Victoria, and former Board Director of Multicultural Arts Victoria and Edmund Rice Community and Refugee Services. She is also a Community Ambassador for Melbourne Victory Football Club.

As a participant of the Courageous Conversation® Workshop I understand and agree to the following:

• No part of the seminar may be recorded, copied (images etc.) by virtual or electronic means.
• Only the Courageous Conversation South Institute® Ltd (CCSPI) has the sole and exclusive right to use the Courageous Conversation® trademarks and intellectual property (Training Protocols) used in the workshop in New Zealand and Australia.
• CCSPI are pleased to allow the Participant to use the training resources provided to support their learning however, they should understand that they cannot use or share the materials without written permission from CCSPI.
• The Participant shall keep visible all CCSPI copyright notices and other such marks on the Training Protocols and documentation (eg. user manuals if applicable).
• The Participant agrees not to cause or permit the reverse creation or recompilation of this intellectual property (IP). The Participant shall not market any of this IP in any way which implies that they are the proprietary product of the Participant.

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