Virtual Racial Equity Cohort Learning Series - Q4 2023

You are cordially invited to join us at The Equity Paradigm as we lead a 4 session virtual racial equity series that is geared to give participants a foundational understanding of racial equity that is a great baseline for doing equity work more broadly (gender equity, religious equity, economic equity, etc.). Here is a description of the 4 sessions and the times offered:

Session 1 - 11/15, 12:00 - 2:00pm, EST

Our Foundations in Racial Equity workshop is focused on building social, political, historical and economic context around the construction of race, and help participants build a systemic, institutional and cultural analysis of racialized outcomes, all through the lens of our own racial identities, experiences and encounters. This introductory workshop is a strongly recommended prerequisite for our other workshops.

Session 2 - 11/22, 12:00 - 2:00pm, EST

Our Foundations in Internalized Racism workshop pushes participants to examine their own socialization and the unconscious norms, assumptions and biases that have been ingrained in us, that perpetuate racism and uphold the system has it was designed. We will interrogate our own lived experiences and identities, build community and devise strategies for deconstructing Internalized Racial Superiority and Internalized Racial Oppression through racial identity caucusing, all while building our capacity to work towards racial equity in the spaces we occupy.

Session 3 - 12/6, 12:00 - 2:00pm, EST

Our Understanding & Decentering White Supremacy Culture workshop focuses on naming, interrogating, and challenging white supremacy as a socio-political system of domination that, while rendered invisible, controls all facets of what is deemed "normal" and "correct" in our society and in our workplaces, more specifically. Using a racial equity lens developed in sessions 1 & 2, we will define the attributes of whites supremacy culture, identify our roles as perpetrators/co-conspirators in upholding white supremacy culture as the "norm" in our environments, and begin developing strategies for decentering white supremacy culture and creating space for alternative ways of being and operating.

Session 4 - 12/13, 12:00 - 2:00pm, EST

Our Understanding and Balancing Power - Equitable Decision Making workshop focuses on understanding power and disempowerment. Participants reflect on their individually held relationships with power and proximity to power, and interrogate how that power has been conferred, what its unintended consequences are, and begin developing tools for engaging in decision-making practices that are conscious of power and lead to more equitable outcomes and experiences. Participants may reconvene in racial identity caucuses (established in session 2) to reflect on common power dynamics experienced by dominant and non-dominant groups.

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