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Recently completed workshops: Facilitating Conversations about Diversity According to facilitation guru Sam Kaner, "The facilitator's job is to support everyone to do their best thinking and practice." This workshop will help participants build a foundation for authentic engagement in conversations about identity, diversity and social justice. Participants will consider the role of the facilitator, and identify best practices for creating safe, professional spaces for important, and sometimes challenging, conversations. We will use somatic techniques for getting centered and staying grounded when the unexpected happens (as it always does), and share proactive and responsive strategies, activities and tips for cultivating collaborative thinking and practice. This workshop is for staff, administrators, faculty and parents who are interested in, or are already, facilitating diversity work in their communities (from preK-adulthood). Navigating Your Role in Transforming Your School Workshop participants will explore and share strategies to engage school leaders and potential allies in examining and re-imagining equity within schools. We will share vital information that will strengthen and expand our communication and support for one another. Multiculturalism as Core Practice: Creating Rubrics for Educators Multiculturalism is a core value for 21st century schools. What does that value look like as systemic practice? Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton is in its third year of creating and piloting a rubric that guides all of its staff, faculty and administrators in understanding and enhancing how to enact multiculturalism as a SHS educator. This discussion will overview that process, and pose essential questions and considerations for schools interested in developing and integrating professional rubrics to clarify values, intentions and expectations for the practice of inclusion and equity in their schools. Teaching Whiteness This workshop will focus on normative experiences of whiteness (the encounter with the Other, the experience of being called a racist, the denial of whiteness, the attempt to be an ally in the struggle for racial justice, the insistence on colorblindness) as pivotal opportunities to help individuals develop self-awareness and empowered racial identities. Participants will leave with an understanding of occasions and issues in white identity development, and frames and tools to help them to decide what to say and how to act to foster their own and/or their white allies' identities. Practicing Antidiscrimination As Sonia Nieto writes, even in the most well-intentioned school, "nice is not enough" to ensure inclusion and equity for all students and adults. This workshop will tap the knowledge and skills participants already bring to their work, in addition to current research on bias and discrimination, to identify proactive and responsive opportunities to address unconscious biases and subtle, yet stunning forms of discrimination within their communities. Participants will explore the process and effects of: covering, aversive discrimination, microaggressions and stereotype threat on minority and majority-identified students and adults. With the goal of creating actively antidiscriminatory campuses, this workshop will challenge a "difference-blind" approach, and offer a perspective that affirms the whole individual and empowers each person to be a stakeholder in school culture and life. This workshop is for staff, administrators, faculty and parents who want to deepen their anti-discriminatory practice (preK-adulthood). Teaching Privilege This workshop starts with the premise that we can empower children and adults to leverage their privilege for social good by helping them to reflect on their own identities and attitudes about privilege, and redefining privilege as an opportunity to enact equity and justice. We will explore race, class, sexuality and learning-ability privilege, and challenge the deficit ideology that disempowers people by dividing us into "haves" or "have-nots." Drawing on participants' experiences, as well as research on children's developing awareness and normative attitudes about privilege, we will explore strategies for transformatively teaching and learning about the p-word. This workshop is for staff, administrators, faculty and parents who are interested in exploring and working with privilege (from preK-adulthood). Past Blink workshops include:
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