Unpacking and Interrupting Implicit Bias and Microaggressions Training Overview

Two Half Day Sessions - January 26, 2023, 9am to 1:30pm & January 27, 2023, 9am to 1:30pm - Virtual

Prerequisite - Must have attended Unpacking and Interrupting Racial Oppression by Racial Equity Consultants, LLC or The People's Institute 2 Day workshop

Training is a key part of organizational change work. Training increases staff awareness, knowledge and communication in an effort to move towards positive cross-cultural communication, challenging institutional racial inequities and changing the internal organizational structure. Learning to talk about race and racism constructively within the organization gives members and staff tools and practices for consistently interrupting and counteracting racial bias.

Racial Equity Consultants understand and teach that while we are not to blame for the current inequities that people of color face, we are responsible for changing the disproportionate social and institutional outcomes of the world in which we live. REC stands on four key elements to accomplish this work:

1. Awareness – expanding an understanding of our own biases, assumptions and racialized behaviors.

2. Knowledge – Developing knowledge of institutional racism, historical oppression and the experiences of marginalized groups.

3. Skills – build capacity to engage in cross-cultural communication and the ability to interrupt white supremacy.

4. Advocacy – elevating the voices and concerns of traditionally marginalized communities.

Full Description:

To understand micro-aggressions and how to respond to them, we need to be very clear about where they come from. REC will therefore link our foundational understanding of race and racism to implicit bias by exploring how implicit racial bias is created and how it operates subconsciously, causing us to make decisions that often contradict our explicit desire to create inclusion. We will then begin to explore the definition of micro-aggressions and what they look like. We need to be clear about how we not only see other people perpetuate micro-aggressions, but how we each perpetuate them every day also, simply because we are part of a racialized society. In addition, because we are unpacking how we show up racially, we also need to learn how to repair micro-aggressions. So, we will be working on how to address micro-aggressions when other people author them and when WE ourselves author them. We will be looking more at the mirror than at the window.

Training Objectives:

• To deepen participants' understanding of implicit bias and racialized micro-aggressions.

• To practice interrupting micro-aggressions.

• To practice what it means to repair harm.