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Equity + Justice Fall Series with Team Dynamics

8/25/2020

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About the Series
Building on the Next Right Action initiative, expert facilitators and trainers gathered by Team Dynamics will lead seven Tuesday evening workshops to explore critical concepts to equip us as champions for racial justice in our own lives, in our communities, and in our spiritual growth and development.

Series Learning Goals in Service to Unity’s Multicultural and Racial Healing Ends
  • Increase self-awareness to understand how our experiences of race, gender, and more inform the choices we make in pursuit of our personal and collective justice goals
  • Explore tools for deeper practice as a champion for racial justice
  • Understand how movements for social change work and how we experience them
  • Situate ourselves within a movement for justice and consider when and how to deploy our tools and take actions 

Sessions Overview 
This is a seven-part series. It is our intention that participants attend session one and/or two as prerequisite in order to participate in sessions three through seven. Additionally, we ask that you attend as many as your schedule allows. This is a sequential series and a cohort experience, with each session building on the previous session's concepts and learning. Sign-up is required for each session. An RSVP will be sent to confirm attendance. 
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All sessions are on Zoom, Tuesday evenings, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., September 15 – October 27, 2020. Each session will be hosted by Alfonso T. Wenker from Team Dynamics with various faculty participating throughout the series. 
 
REGISTER FOR SESSION 1 • September 15: Identity + Bias 
Explore how our beliefs are connected to our experiences of culture + identity and how those beliefs influence our actions. Faculty: Mark Pineda, Sara Wernick Schonwald

REGISTER FOR SESSION 2 • September 22: Intercultural Conflict Styles + Strategies
Explore conflict through the lens of culture. Understand your preferred conflict style and increase capacity to manage conflict across culture. Faculty: Sara Wernick Schonwald, Liz Loeb, Levi Weinhagen

REGISTER FOR SESSION 3 • September 29: Understanding + Utilizing Power
Power is an underlying force in relationships and organizations; however, we tend to treat power as a “have or have not.” This session explores power as ever present in all bodies. We will dive into the connections between position, identity and power and explore ways to responsibly exercise power toward equity goals. Faculty: Tyrai Bronson-Pruitt, Pearl Dobbins, Anil Hurkadli

REGISTER FOR SESSION 4 • October 6: Constructions of Race + Racism
Race impacts every relationship, system and interaction in our daily lives. While concepts of race are a social construct, the impacts (racism and white supremacy) are real in their consequences. This session allows participants to get grounded in their experience of race while noticing patterns and preference for whiteness. Faculty: Tyrai Bronson-Pruitt, Levi Weinhagen
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REGISTER FOR SESSION 5 • October 13: Social Change + Social Movements
What are social movements? What makes movements move? How do we utilize this movement moment to create the transformational change we seek? Together we’ll unpack what are the elements of a movement to understand how each of us is situated in a movement. Faculty: Beth Zemsky

REGISTER FOR SESSION 6 • October 20: Organizing + Action 
“But what can I do about it?” Building from the first five sessions, we’ll talk about how community organizing works in pursuit of justice and how to choose your actions wisely. Faculty: Liz Loeb, Trina Olson

REGISTER FOR SESSION 7 • October 27: Using these Tools in Your Practice 
This will be an open, guided time to ask questions and test out ideas for application of the topics covered in sessions one through six. Faculty: Tyrai Bronson-Pruitt, Levi Weinhagen
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Judy Miller
11/9/2022 10:23:38 am

I participate in the Unity Unitarian Affordable Housing Community Outreach Ministry Team. I am wondering if there is another Unpacking Race / Unity session by Team Dynamics planned for 2023. I missed this series and would like to attend next time.

Judy

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