Community Training - Interrupting Racism: Amplifying Individual Awareness

This is a two-day online training:

Saturday and Sunday, January 16th & 17th, 10am -1pm ET both days.

Join the LABAN/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies as we embark on a process of transformative change. For this, part one of a four-part social justice training tailored to the specific needs of our community, LIMS invites you to participate in gaining a deeper understanding of racism and its impact on our community.

Space is limited to 50 people so please register early. We will be offering Level 2: Amplifying Interpersonal Engagement of this training in February and March of 2021.

For more information on the LIMS' DEI Committee visit our website.

About the Training

Interrupting Racism Level 1: Amplifying Individual Awareness

This training lays the foundation for a common understanding of the breadth and depth of racism and its impact on all aspects of society. Experiencing the History of Racism Timeline in community increases awareness and commitment to racial equity.

Activities and exercises address:

• Community Agreements for engaging in learning together
• History of Race & Racism in the US Timeline
• Unpacking our personal histories of race and racism
• Data on the material impact of racism today
• Stereotypes, prejudice & bias in professional dance as well as society at large
• Social identity and perspective
• Intersectionality and the complexity of belonging
• Looking through the lens of diversity, equity & inclusion to identify racism in dance
• Language for talking about race, ethnicity and racism
• Engaging with cultural humility

About Human in Common

Human In Common is an innovative team of experienced diversity consultants. We help individuals and organizations create social norms based on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Unlike so many diversity trainings that only focus on compliance, our trainings provide a compassionate, experiential approach to learning skills for effectively interrupting bias and preventing harassment, discrimination and harmful behavior. We empower our clients with policies and practices to amplify equity. Our comprehensive diversity training acknowledges our collective responsibility and capacity for creating respectful, inclusive and equitable environments.

What makes Human In Common Unique?

Our diversity trainings are rooted in active bystander intervention, identified by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Forbes as being the most effective training method for creating inclusive, equitable and respectful workplaces. Supported by research and with attention to current events, our trainings engage participants with meaningful discussion and activities to:

• Examine and un-learn bias
• Develop skills to effectively respond to and prevent harassment and discrimination
• Engage cultural humility to shift workplace culture
• Exercise diversity and upstander skills by exploring real-world scenarios
• Use our template for respectfully engaging in challenging conversations
• Operationalize diversity, equity and inclusion into policy and practice

All of our trainings are interactive and include: data, videos, skill-building exercises, partner and small group activities, templates for challenging conversations, scenarios and a toolkit for taking action. Participants leave our trainings with a certificate of attendance, increased social awareness, confidence, practical skills, useful material to bring back to their workplaces, and a renewed commitment to promote diversity, equity and inclusion on the job and within their various communities.