Session 1

Agenda:

Welcome/Why do this work?
SEED guidelines for communication
Racial Identity Journey Exercise
Pair share
Group Share
Racial identity development theory
Homework/Take away: FB Challenge Exercise

Important links for Session 1:

SEED Guidelines

Racial Identity Journey Exercise

Suggested Homework/Action Items:

1. Watch Jay Smooth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdxeFcQtaU

2. This exercise:
Taken from Facebook
Michelle Silverthorn, Diversity Speaker
May 28 at 8:21 AM ·

You want to be an anti-racist. Excellent - here's an exercise I ask folks to start with when I talk about racism in America. Name Three.


1. Name three Black journalists you read or three Black websites you follow.


2. Name three Black authors whose books have influenced you - and while you're at it, three people you've shared those books with.


3. Name three tenets of the Black Lives Matter movement.


4. Name three aspects of Black culture that you have had to learn and adapt to in order to succeed at your job.


5. Name three racist remarks that you remember hearing, challenging, and you corrected.


1 and 2 are easier for some, 3, 4 and 5 are harder for most, especially 4 and 5.


See, when I say do the work, I mean do the work. And that work starts with you.


If you don't know the answers, now is the time to learn them. Now is the time to address change. Because it is never, ever too late to begin. This world, and that awaiting our next generation, is counting on you. Let's go.

#antiracism

#leadership

#change

Resources from this session:

http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/racial_identity_development_agenda_3_hour_session.pdf


https://www.fammed.wisc.edu/files/webfm-uploads/documents/diversity/LifeLongJourney.pdf