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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
10 Comments
RENE J MEYER-GRIMBERG
9/10/2020 01:36:22 pm

can I post this on facebook ? or only invite friends?

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Martha
9/11/2020 07:55:38 am

Please share!

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Anne Parker
9/11/2020 11:15:38 am

registering for sessions 1 & 2

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Chris Griese
9/14/2020 05:55:58 am

I’d like to attend the first session tomorrow.

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Zara link
9/14/2020 10:23:51 am

I am really interested in this series but have choir on tues :( do you foresee either another day forming or an ability to watch the sessions on demand? Seems fantastic!! Thx
Zara

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Jack Rossmann
9/14/2020 04:01:13 pm

I'm looking forward to the conversation.

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JaneSchwartz
9/16/2020 10:40:11 am

Was any part of session one recorded?

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Betsy Hearn
9/20/2020 09:17:35 am

Expecting homework for session 2 - has it been sent out yet?

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Carolyn Caswell
9/20/2020 09:30:07 pm

Hi Betsy, I am a participant and got my Session 2 email on 9/17/20. The only homework was a link to do the Intercultural Conflict Syle Inventory. It took about 15 minutes to do, but it's best not to be interrupted during that time. Directions also said that there will be a short time to do this during Session 2, but I'd recommend doing it beforehand, so as to have time to be thoughtful with the survey. You can try emailing the leaders to get the link again. Hope this helps! Carolyn

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Warren Davidson
9/22/2020 07:42:41 pm

What again is the email address for receiving a copy of the ICS self-assessment inventory so I can fill it out? Or better yet, just send me the inventory. I did not attend session 1 of 7. Thanks so much.

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    ​In 2016, the Beloved Community Staff Team was formed at Unity Church to strengthen and coordinate Unity’s anti-racism and multi-cultural work, and to share the stories of this journey with the wider community. We commit to sharing the struggles, the questions, and the collaborations here at Unity and in the wider world of our faith and city. The current members of the team include Rev. Janne Eller-Isaacs, Rev. Rob Eller-Isaacs, Rev. KP Hong, Barbara Hubbard, Drew Danielson, Ahmed Anzaldúa, Laura Park, Karen Hering, Angela Wilcox, Pauline Eichten, and Erika Sanders. 

    Additional Resources

    Unity Justice Database
    As a “next right action,” the Racial and Restorative Justice Team asked the Library and Bookstall Team to team up to search for, vet, and organize resources related to anti-racism, defunding/reforming police, legislation around policing, etc.  The Unity Justice Database is your one-stop location for information about and links to books, articles, news, podcasts, films, events, organizations, and more. If you know of a good resource that is not already in the database, please do request that we add it. 
    Anti-Racism/Racism Resource in Unity's Library Collection
    White Supremacy Teach-in 2017
    Graphic: How to be a racial transformer

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