Power Building for Racial Equity (PRE) Virtual 6/18/2025

This workshop focuses on the role of power when addressing systemic racism and advancing racial justice. Systemic racism is a system of power–hierarchical, coercive, and oppressive power–based on race. Racial justice, to be achieved and sustained, also requires power–inclusive, collective, and liberatory power. As we do the work of racial justice, power plays a critical role and needs to be explicitly examined and deliberately transformed. When power is ignored, unjust patterns of power can be unintentionally replicated. This workshop provides an opportunity for reflection, sharing tips and tools, and exploring ways to transform power in your racial justice work, whether internal-facing (within your organization) and/or external-facing (with your community or the broader society).

Racial and social justice activists, organizers, and educators are seeking more frameworks and tools for deepening their work.

By the end of the training, participants will:

• Learn a framework for identifying and understanding different kinds of power, including oppressive and liberatory power.
• Practice identifying different types of power that operate in the internal- and external-facing work of organizations and institutions.
• Learn some tips and tools for identifying ways to apply power-transforming practices in your racial justice work

Prerequisite: Attendees must first attend Race Forward’s introductory racial justice training (the Building Racial Equity training or the Government Alliance for Race and Equity’s Advancing Racial Equity training).

• Attendees are encouraged to come in teams with other colleagues or comrades.
  

Who we most want to reach and engage:

• People, and teams of people, working in the non-profit and public sectors who are committed to addressing racial equity.
• Racial and social justice activists, organizers and educators seeking more frameworks and tools for deepening their work.
• Individuals committed to racial justice are willing to explore the challenging work of addressing power dynamics when addressing issues of race.
  

FAQ

Sliding Scale Ticket Model

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Zoom Use:

Please note that you will need to be able to access zoom in order to participate in this training. We are unable to accommodate dial-in only participation at this time.

Access Needs

If you are registering for this event and have any access needs (see here for more information on what access needs are), please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/PjFMZA2bYVkJZH6JA We are currently able to offer ASL interpreters and Live Captioning for our training sessions.

Where’s my access link?

If you don’t have access to your Zoom link or encounter problems with registration, we ask that you first check your spam folder. If you cannot find your zoom link please email the BRE team at [email protected]. We try to respond to urgent requests within 24 hours of receipt. For all other requests please allow up to 2 business days to respond.

Scholarships:

We are offer scholarships to grassroots organizers and community organizations. If you need a scholarship please fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/82yieAu8cKBgbhbx9

Space:

We have limited space in our virtual training as we believe it is critical for our participants to be able to receive tailored support and coaching throughout the duration of our virtual training session.

Host or Publisher Race Forward