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Current musings about confidentiality as an Engagement Agreement
Dealing with nervousness - How to prepare right before the session
Do you have any favorite icebreaker questions
Do you share needs assessments with clients?
How important is it to find time and space to refresh?
How might you design an online 2-day Foundational EDI training, given the fears/reality related to the corona-virus?
How much of an agenda is good vs free flowing dialogue?
How much pre work do you give
How to balance using break times for more learning as well as a real break
How to craft good debrief questions
How to develop an effective relationship with a co-facilitator
How to get into a creative space while designing and planning
How to stay organized and manage time within a course
How to use images that shift away from and challenge stereotypes
How to use simulations that are impactful?
How to use the article by Tema Okun, White Supremacy Culture
How to use videos or images that reinforce stereotypes
How would you design an Advanced Training of Facilitators Program?
Ideas for culturally responsive sessions
Need help with new and engaging design ideas
New Engaging Agreements I’m using now
Putting people 1st in virtual meetings: Share ways people are boosting their immune system.
Suggestions for creating a needs assessment prior to facilitation
Teaching about racial justice
The only one in organization and frustrated
The value of self care when burned out
Thoughts on a Program of Observers Called "Panners"
What are strategies to increase accessibility for participants?
What do to when fewer people show up than you hoped
What do you think about pre and post assessments
What I've Learned While Designing & Facilitating Virtual Trainings & a Staff Retreat
What if more people show up than you had hoped
What if you get asked to train, but never done it before
What to include in a 200 or 300 level training
When you are asked to do 8 hours of content in a 90-min time slot.
Where do I start

Facilitation

Addressing white fragility
Addressing white supremacy culture, Dissenting opinions feeling unsafe, White fragility
Are there resources for students to help them hold themselves accountable
As a white supervisor, how can I reconcile the power differential with a team of women of color?
As a young woman of color, how can I co-lead with an elder white woman who only lets me observe?
Balance of Air Time as a Facilitator
Balancing addressing the dismantling of white supremacy while creating learning spaces
Being supportive to students going through gender transition
Bullying in the workplace
Conversations with supervisors going wrong
Conveying Group Membership
Creating group norms within a racially diverse team
Dealing with dominant approaches in training and teaching
Discussing economic equity in a non profit foundation
Discussing privileged diversity across different faiths
Discussing your Ancestors History with Prejudice, Discrimination & Oppression FB Live 5.4.20
Do you see parallels to the work fighting sexism i.e. male fragility?
Empowering participants to honestly discuss the culture/climate at their organization with an inclusion lens.
Fear of retaliation
Focus on changing behaviors, not changing people’s values
Getting leadership to work on systemic racism change solutions
Getting out of your head and into your heart as you discuss race
Help with identifying students who may be ready for advanced racial equity training
Helping organization leaders manage the emotional stuff when dealing with change
How can you do some trainings to help with cliques at work?
How do I make sense of my identity if I recently found out I have Brazilian ancestry
How do these practices impact the economic growth of people of color?
How do you deal with the frustration behind participants not listening?
How do you find that balance between seriousness and humor
How do you get people to want to train on a deeper level
How do you teach about cumulative impact
How do you use small group facilitators
How might development programs and support look for people of color in predominantly white organizations?
How to address a group that says they “don’t see color”
How to address a participant that’s unaware they are triggering others
How to address complex issues with varied audience knowledge
How to address multi-racial dynamics within a team
How to answer folks who want to be better but not feel badly
How to balance training while meeting people where they are
How to be in conversations about implicit bias
How to better teach a large group on equity inclusion and social justice
How to center race while leading an equity inclusion diversity workshop
How to deal with colleagues who prefer theoretical approaches to DEI work
How to deal with power dynamics
How to deal with significant racism against students and faculty of color by a few senior faculty members
How to do DEI work with less than enthusiastic leaders
How to do live training/meetings during this pandemic
How to effectively provide constructive feedback that is well received
How to effectively share concepts with participants
How to engage a white participant who is intellectualizing about race instead of doing the internal self work?
How to escape the burden of always coming up with ideas for resolution as a black faculty
How to gain trust from a group that may feel negatively impacted by your identity
How to get whites to stop undermining or questioning leaders that are people of color
How to help people realize the being and doing matters over mastering the training
How to help people realize the racialized impact they're making
How to keep the integrity of a tool while also meeting people where they are
How to move to end a session when people are emotionally triggered
How to navigate when a participant takes up more airtime than you'd hoped
How to reduce people’s fears for sharing when there are power differences in the room
How to respond to unsolicited or unwanted feedback
How to Take the Temperature of the Group During a Session
How to teach a diverse group and soften the impact of how whites work through it.
How to use racial implicit bias vs political bias in training
How to use the handout, "Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors of Many Whites" after winter break, a conference, summer vacation period, etc.
How to use the handout, "Suggested Competencies for White Allies and Change Agents" after winter break, a conference, summer vacation period, etc.
I know all the concepts to teach, but struggle with how to share them effectively
Keeping up with language changes regarding identity labels
Making Change by Outsmarting the Machine
Making sense of bi-cultural identities while white presenting
Microaggression, a new activity: Imagining "A Day in the Life"
More reflections on owning our privileged identities as facilitators
Navigating racial power dynamics on a team as a white supervisor
Needs assessment strategies to move organizational change
New activity: Ways to invite feedback and collegial coaching to build a learning community.
New ways to use the group identity cards - make two more decks!
Pandemic Tips for D & F Course
Pivoting, what to do in unexpected moments
Recent Insights About Teaching Microaggressions
Reflections from Reading the Book, Race Dialogues
Regret over too much sharing from previous session
Resources to offer folks of color to better thrive in mostly white organizations
Responding to a white participant blurting out, “Blacks have it the worst!”
Scenarios that can happen that undermine productivity
Self-Care: Better in a Group Meeting or Individual Talks?
Staying on topic with black psychology and inclusivity
Strategies for people of color who vehemently disagree with performance evaluations from white supervisors.
The Equal Justice Initiative and the Legacy Museum in Montgomery AL ~ info on joining Kathy and a group of white change agents on March 20-21, 2020
The Triggering Event Cycle
Thoughts on designing a Training of Facilitators program.
Thoughts on people of color being more powerful because they’re culturally developed
Top 10 Topics in the middle of this pandemic
Understanding the whiteness of over protecting confidentiality
Understanding tone policing
Using PAIRS to address racial comments
Using the MCOD model
Ways to engage the deep resistance to racial justice work of one white senior leader as a leadership team
Ways to Move People Into and Out of Activities Smoothly
Ways to talk about holding white caucuses to skeptical people of color
Ways to talk about racism and whiteness with whites
Ways to use the Needs Cards, from Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
What activities can be used to teach about implicit bias
What are some creative ways to bring in the media
What are some strategies you’ve used to address the claims of reverse racism
What are some tools to move with and through feedback
What are some training and supervisory ways to shift toxic work environments?
What are some ways you can get more information from a participant
What do you do if you’re not excited about facilitating a session
What do you do with resistant attendees, who don’t want to be there
What if there is low participation
What if you feel triggered by the co-facilitator during a session
What if you think you have triggered your co-facilitator
What if your co facilitator is triggered as they are leading a discussion
What to do when someone asks about a topic and you don’t know what to say
What to do when there's a wide range of competencies in the room
What tools would you recommend for people who are new to learning about oppression
What's your style as you’re leading a workshop?
When a triggering moment arises
When a white person gets to an emotional spot with awareness
When and how do you use journaling?
When difficult topics are brought up just before the workshop is over
When introducing activities do you do it all at once, or a piece at a time
When leadership doesn't support diversity and inclusion
When mono-racial folk feel that their racism is more lethal than multiracial folk
When organizational change focuses mainly on compliance
When people are deep in resistance
When people of color may want to attend a workshop designed for whites
When topics that are close to mandated reporting arise
When whites feel they need to be perfect before participating in racial reconciliation.
Where do you find the mandated training requirements for corporations
Which activities do you share or not share with your own work group?
White people often say, they feel damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
White practitioner accountability
White women's tears
Whites discount or devalue my work, how do I continue to work and not take on the burden of educating them?
Why facilitators need to own both our marginalized and privileged identities
Why I’m using the term "interpersonal aggressions" instead of "microaggressions"

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