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B5 Making the “Invisible” Visible: White Awareness and Facilitation
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Drawing on the findings of a series of interviews with a diverse group of professional facilitators, organizational development consultants, educators, and non-profit leaders, this session will explore the relationships between white social conditioning, white privilege and facilitation. We will engage experientially, compassionately, self-reflectively and courageously with the four themes of this study: impacts of white social conditioning on facilitation; re-examining established facilitation practices through the lens of white conditioning and white privilege; preventions and interventions for facilitating difficult diversity-related moments; and strategies for increasing personal awareness of the opportunities and challenges white social conditioning and white privilege can bring to facilitation. Participants will also develop a plan for continuing their capacity building efforts.

Presenter:

Kathleen Rice, Ph.D., has served as a trainer, facilitator, and educator for more than 25 years, in higher education, non-profit, and governmental organizations. Her consulting work centers on supporting social change agents in the areas of diversity education, building reciprocal university-community partnerships, organizational change, and leadership development. Her passion for working with others to create more equitable, inclusive, meaningful and caring communities drives her personal and professional work. She is also a leadership core member and teacher-in-training with the UNtraining: Unlearning White Liberal Racism program in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

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Monday, April 20
8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Presented By:
Kathleen Rice

Session Addresses These IAF Core Competencies:

Create collaborative client relationships

Plan appropriate group processes

Create and sustain a participatory environment

Guide group to appropriate and useful outcomes

Build and maintain professional knowledge

Model positive professional attitude

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