Our Programs
We believe that an effective anti-racist journey explores three fundamental components:
- Systemic Racism
- Interpersonal Relations
- Skills & Tools to Disrupt Racism
The first, Systemic Racism, reveals ways in which racism impacts our lives across institutions and society, such as Housing, Education, Law Enforcement, Healthcare, and Wealth Building & Banking. It is embedded in the policies, programs, and systems of our institutions, creating and sustaining racial inequities.
Once participants appreciate the systemic nature of racism, it is time to explore concepts impacting our Interpersonal Relations, including racial identity, privilege, bias, and discrimination. We identify racial influences in our society and examine our own behaviors, both consciously and unintentionally, and how to interrupt and challenge them.
With deeper understanding and self-reflection, we empower participants with basic Skills & Tools to Disrupt Racism. We provide practical advice and insights for these difficult conversations at home, at work, and in our communities, and ways to work for equity.
Challenging Racism offers a full range of professionally facilitated programs to build awareness and skills for both individuals and organizations to courageously talk about race.
Challenging Racism: Getting Started is a one- to two-session introductory experience during which trained facilitators help participants think about race and racism in a new way and encourage curiosity and commitment to take their learning to the next level.
Download our Getting Started Program PDF
Challenging Racism: Building Understanding is a bundled series of three or four of our Getting Startedsessions structured to provide a deeper understanding of key racial equity issues and implications in society today.
Challenging Racism: Learning How is our flagship program of six or eleven sessions that provides participants deeper content as well as storytelling, relationship building, self-reflection, and development of skills in listening and in conducting difficult conversations.
Challenging Racism: Learning to Lead is a five-day intense facilitation training program that provides the skills to facilitate discussions in any group where race or racial equity issues are likely to arise. The course provides direct practice on how to create safe spaces for difficult conversations in any setting.
Challenging Racism: Continued provides opportunities and events for program alumni to learn and practice skills, discuss timely issues, listen to experts, go on field trips, and attend cultural events.
Challenging Racism: Partner Program is a two to three-year collaboration designed to help an organization develop the internal capacity to regularly offer facilitated conversations and trainings on racial equity and DEIBA to employees, members and/or stakeholders.
Challenging Racism: Custom Program are educational programs and toolkits designed for specific organizations or groups. We can also facilitate a range of book, article, podcast, and movie discussions.
