The Dismantling Racism Workshop I workshop will happen on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 23-25, on Zoom. The Registration fee is TBD; and participation all three days is expected. Two Continuing Education Units will be awarded upon completion. This training satisfies the clergy and lay ministry requirement for Healing the Wounds of Racism training. Further details will be provided soon.

 

This is a 3 day workshop and participation all 3 days is
expected. Participants will learn concrete strategies for:

• Developing skills for addressing and changing attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate bias, discrimination, and other obstacles to equity
• Understanding the personal costs to everyone of system of privilege and disadvantage
• Recognizing institutional racism and other forms of systemic oppression and discrimination that affect members of historically excluded groups
• Changing dysfunctional intraracial and interracial behavior that undermine effective partnerships
• Learning to acknowledge and interrupt the subtle (and often unintentional) dynamics that play out between “modern” forms of oppression and “internalized oppression”.

This workshop will be led by a cross-racial, cross gender team of two facilitators from Visions, Inc. For more information on Visions, Inc. visit their website: visions-inc.org

2 Continuing Education Units are awarded upon completion of the training and this satisfies the requirement for Healing the Wounds of Racism.