Building a Movement Through Monthly Dialogues
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Why Build Radical White Community? Movement & Base A bl Movement & Base Building Accountability Consciousness Raising Creating an Alternative white Consciousness Raising Creating an Alternative white culture & community Sustainability Skills Building PowerPoint and models created by AWARE‐LA,please credit author for any reproduction of these materials
Transcript of Building a Movement Through Monthly Dialogues
Why Build Radical White Community?
Movement & Base A b lMovement & Base Building
Accountability
Consciousness RaisingCreating an Alternative white Consciousness RaisingCreating an Alternative white culture & community
SustainabilitySkills Building
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Create a visible culture of white anti‐racist white people
Bring in as many people as possibleg y p p p
Build capacity within people to take greater anti‐racist action
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Building a Saturday DialogueBuilding a Saturday Dialoguebasic building blocks
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Facilitation TeamFacilitation Teamguiding the dialogue
Establishes a network of support and working community
h f d h i kWe have found that it works best with 3‐5 people
Working relationships grounded in mutual investment & personal growth
Creating a healthy culture forCreating a healthy culture for the organization (task and process)
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Prepping to FacilitatePrepping to Facilitatehow many meetings a month?
We meet four times a month
Each meeting begins with a personal check‐in and ends with a check‐out
1st Meeting Follow‐up
debrief from last Dialogue
2nd MeetingUse goals to begin to sketch out
3rd Meeting Fully flesh
out activities, assign times
4th Meeting Review agenda, highlightlast Dialogue,
brainstorm next topic and goals
sketch out agenda for the next
meeting and
assign times and
facilitators
highlight facilitator’s notes or follow up
purpose of activities
questions
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CurriculumCurriculumtopics and agenda
We ask folks to approach topics through their pp p gown experiences of being white
We delve into feelings – focusing on stayingWe delve into feelings focusing on staying grounded and becoming self‐aware
We value skills building but are not relating toWe value skills building, but are not relating to Dialogue participants from a place of “this is what you have to learn today”you have to learn today
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CurriculumCurriculumtopics and agenda
Interpersonal Intersections of Identities
Family
Talking to Other White People
Class
GenderWhite People
Staying in Relationship with People of Color
Sexual Orientation(Heteronormativity)
Political
Gentrification Immigration PoliceGentrification g
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Recruitment / OutreachRecruitment / Outreachgetting the word out!
It all began with:Word
ofofMouthB h i bliBegan hosting public events: open
house, film night, events with partners (and radio shows)
Orientation at beginning of each meeting
We have assigned homework:We have assigned homework:
talk to someone about AWARE‐LA
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Recruitment / OutreachRecruitment / Outreachstaying in touch
Gather contact information from new participants
Follow up within a week to see how it went for them
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Ongoing Skills BuildingOngoing Skills Buildinggathering and integrating feedback
ALWAYS
The art of follow‐up questions
Effectively challenging while maintaining a safe space
Moving through personal triggersg g p gg
We engage folks in the larger community to help with facilitation trainings and on‐going developmentg g g p
We highly value debriefing what was successful and challenging about each meeting – personally and collectively
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Leadership DevelopmentLeadership Developmentconstantly growing
The Saturday Dialogue space grows a pool of people ready to step up and take on more leadershipy p p p
It is important that this process is…
SystemicSyste cCareful
PatientHonest
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WHEELS Leadership/ WHEELS Leadership/ Development modelDevelopment model
RIMRIM--Workgroups make up the outer Workgroups make up the outer rim of the organization where all the main rim of the organization where all the main work gets done and where leadership iswork gets done and where leadership is
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WWorking orking HHolistically to olistically to EEvolve andvolve and
LDPLDP
work gets done and where leadership is work gets done and where leadership is developed.developed.
EEvolve and volve and EElevate levate LLeadership eadership SSystematicallyystematically
AR2WSAR2WS RJARJA
SDFTSDFTWPGWPG
CTCT
National National NetworkNetwork
Fundraising Fundraising WorkgroupWorkgroupWorkgroupWorkgroup
HUBHUB-- Coordination Coordination SPOKESSPOKES-- spokes are people spokes are people
O. 2-12-7
Team is focused on coordinating Team is focused on coordinating the various components of the the various components of the work and supporting each area in work and supporting each area in their developmenttheir development
S O SS O S spo es a e peop espo es a e peop epowerpower-- those who take up a leadership role those who take up a leadership role with AWARE and drive forward specific with AWARE and drive forward specific components of the work.components of the work.PowerPoint and models created by AWARE‐LA, please credit author for any reproduction of these materials
C o n f l i c tC o n f l i c tit happens…
We try our best to stay open to others’ feedback
We also try to communicate BEFORE it festers into deeper wounds or RESENTMENT
Task and Process Oriented
Conflict Focused
Conflict Aversion
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C o n f l i c tC o n f l i c tHow you understand and deal with it matters
Can be broken down into three areas:
InterpersonalBeing triggered, Mistrust, Taking things personally, Making Being triggered, Mistrust, Taking things personally, Making
titi
Structural Ideological
assumptionsassumptions
Structural IdeologicalThe way the work or the The way the work or the organization is structured, organization is structured, DecisionDecision making processesmaking processes
Differences of approach, Differences of approach, strategy, and opinion about strategy, and opinion about the work itselfthe work itselfDecisionDecision‐‐making processesmaking processes the work itselfthe work itself
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Two Space ModelTwo Space ModelNegotiating numbers and analysis
Over the years a couple dynamics started presenting themselves:themselves:
Large groups mean less intimacy
Familiarity with and integration of anti‐racist principles, models, language, and practice varies greatly among the participants
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Two Space ModelpNegotiating numbers and analysis
AWARE‐LA Saturday Dialogues now have two simultaneous spaces:AWARE LA Saturday Dialogues now have two simultaneous spaces:
Building Analysis Work, Life &
A iAction
Focuses on the core principles of AWARE LA’s
Focuses on anti-racist daily practice and applying the principles of AWARE-LA’s
theory and practice
Focuses on developing the
practice and applying the concepts of RWI and RWC
Components of this space language, tools, and practice of radical white identity and community
include supportive engagement, feedback, and open space
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Putting this into Action inPutting this into Action in Your Local Context
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