Getting Personal: Critical Self-Reflection in Anti-Racism Work (Q2 2024)

This two-part workshop introduces critical self-reflection, a set of practices that lead us to interrogate our actions, assumptions, established patterns of thinking, and perspectives as a means of deepening our anti-racism lens.

Critical self-reflection is a necessary component of anti-racism. Through the examination of ourselves, we confront who we are, how we have come to know what we know, and how we move through the world. This process cultivates cultural and intellectual humility, helping us recognize and address how we contribute to cultures of exclusion that harm individuals with targeted identities. The more consistent and competent we are at critical self-reflection, the more spontaneous we become at examining our proximity to power and interrogating our reactions to social triggers.

Critical self-reflection drives courage – courage to step up, courage to admit missteps, courage to ask for more, to name insecurities, and to lean into difficult but necessary work. During this workshop, Erica Nicole Griffin, PhD and Jamie Joanou, PhD, principals from Monday Morning Consultants, will invite participants to identify and check their ego, to activate their power when possible, and build the courage to address injustice individually and instiutionally.

This workshop is intended for all individuals who wish to deepen their anti-racism practice. We will utilize reflective journaling, affinity groups, and large group discussions to facilitate dialogue and learning. In this interactive session, we ask participants to be fully present and vulnerable, to avoid multitasking, and to dialogue with the group.

After sincere engagement in this two-part workshop, participants should to be able to:

• Take stock of their own social identities and understand how they are targeted or privileged through membership in these social groups
• Understand when and how to leverage power
• Develop greater capacity to embrace conflict
• Develop the capacity to name mistakes and missteps, and to repair harm when caused
• Know when to step aside and return the spotlight to the those with the expertise to speak on harm

DATES & TIMES

April 23 & 30, 2024 from 12-3pm ET (11-2pm CT / 10am-1pm MT / 9am-12pm PT)

PRICING

Equity In The Center® is now using a tiered pricing model to better align with best practices among equity-focused organizations.

We ask that organizations purchasing tickets on behalf of their staff purchase tickets in the tier that aligns with your organizational budget and sector. And for individuals, we ask that people with greater privilege purchase tickets at the higher end, which will allow individuals with historically less access to wealth, disproportionately BIPOC folks, to pay the lower fees. EIC's new tiered budget categories are based on Rockwood Leadership Institute's pricing model.

Partial scholarships are available.

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FACILITATORS

Erica Nicole Griffin is a Black feminist scholar with nearly 20 years of experience as an educator, writer, and consultant. She is a radical, thoughtful partner to sector leaders as they initiate change in the interest of justice, workplace satisfaction, community alignment, and productivity.

As a grounded theory researcher, Erica Nicole relied on intersectionality to better understand how hyperghettoization and misogynoir impact Black girls and women in the US. Since then she has worked to disrupt harmful systems. She has designed and run educational programs in community, the carceral system, nonprofit organizations and philanthropy.

Erica Nicole holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Arizona State University and a B.A. in Public Communication from The American University. She lives in Atlanta with her two children.

Jamie Joanou is an intersectional scholar and has nearly 20 years of experience as an artist, academic, and consultant. Early in her career she studied the ways youth, particularly those living in poverty, developed and exchanged learning while navigating public spaces. Today, she uses her background to support nonprofit leaders and communities as they create programs that drive justice and dismantle white supremacy.

Jamie leverages her experience and expertise in community-based participatory qualitative research and her background in critical theory to support clients as they build strategies and learning engagements.

Jamie holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Arizona State University and a B.A. in Fine Art from Portland State University. She lives in Salt Lake City with her family and enjoys spending time in nature or making art as a way of healing and self care.