Diversity, equity, and inclusion : strategies for facilitating conversations on race

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Getting started. Structuring a workshop

Creating a welcoming environment

Common facilitator fears and needs

Increasing your confidence as a facilitator

Introductions

Building relationships

Establishing credibility

Foundational facilitating tips & strategies. Facilitation style

Basic facilitation tips

Facilitation strategies

Responding to triggers in intercultural conflict. Examining a situation for understanding

Common examples of triggering events

Restructure self-talk

Assessing your triggers

Racial microaggressions

Hot buttons

Racial microaggression themes

Crossroads to reinforcing cycles in relationships

Learning conversation stems

Counteracting expressions of white privilege. Counteracting expressions of white privilege

Reframing or invalidating experiences of people of color

Valuing the product over the process

The idea that logic, reasoning, and linear thinking do not involve emotion

Being agenda-bound

Whites distancing themselves from other whites

Either/ or thinking

Facilitating courageous conversations. Strategies for facilitating courageous conversations

Facilitating dialogue between two participants

Engaging the resistance

Balancing humor and the seriousness of the issue

Role-playing activity

Appendices. A. This is the hour

B. Checklist of what to bring

C. Norms

D. What is cultural competence?

E. Definitions

F. Sample agenda

G. Sample workshop evaluation form