In this workshop, you will learn how to be ready, willing and able to embrace and be empowered by ANY conversation about race/racism big or small. Over the course of five sessions you will develop a willingness to be a leader in your community and business in dealing with the tough issues around race, diversity and difference. Topics include:
- It's Not Them, It's You!: you'll distinguish the real roots of racism, the myth of skin color, and learn how racial reactions are based on making others different.
- Curious Connections for Opposable Thumbs: explore the curious connections you made when you first learned about race or racism.
- Useful Failures: learn how your earliest memories can become "useful failures" to dismantle what's really behind your fears about race/racism and why those fears have persisted.
- The Freedom to be Offended: experience the freedom to be offended in any context or scenario as you share and get coaching around the most difficult relationships where race rears its head -- business and romantic relationships.
- Racism as a Resource: learn how to be courageous, how to bump into your own fears, to create an edge that empowers your relationships in diverse business and personal settings.
- Bringing it Home/Waking Up the Office: How do you keep it alive in your real life?
There will be short weekly assignments involving informal interviews with your community. All calls will be recorded for research and educational purposes.
Recent review:
Kyra, this is amazing stuff. I was completely fascinated with your presentation and your promise for the world. Touch, moved and inspired! (smile). I didn't get it when you were describing it. Like why would I agree to be offended?? Sounds unpleasant to me. But the alternative is to keep dancing around the issues and letting them perpetuate themselves unaddressed. Now I get it. Thank you for sharing. I'm offended. Kidding!
Facilitated by: Kyra G. Gaunt, Ph.D.
TED Fellow 2009
Kyra is an Associate Professor of
cultural anthropology, black and hispanic
studies, and music at Baruch College-CUNY
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 BENEFITS:
- Transparency and disappearance of the silences and suffering around race/racism
- Access to an ability to disarm any concern about race/racism
- Access to bringing this conversation to your office or college in a way that inspires you and holds you accountable as a leader
- Being able to stay connected in spite of life's awkward conversations and insults.
- Freedom, an ability to really be honest and straight, and real trust in any relationship
- The desire to make a difference with those you most wanted to leave behind before the series
Series will be five sessions on Weds from 4-5pmEST (60 mins). Individual sessions are $25/each (you can attend session 1-2 but 3-5 is limited to full series participants).
$100 for entire series of 5-one hour sessions. If you miss a session you can listen to the rebroadcasts on Thu at 7pm and Sat at 10am.
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