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Leading White Accountability Groups in Your Organization

Leading White Accountability Groups. Click here for free course access.
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Well-facilitated White Accountability Groups provide transformational learning experiences to develop greater courage and competence to partner with Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color as well as white colleagues to interrupt racist dynamics and create more racially just organizations and client services. Deepen your capacity to design and facilitate transformational learning and growth.

Using a DEI Lens as We Develop Recommendations for How to "Come Back to Work" Course & Resources

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Check Your Bias: Resources to Unlearn Implicit Bias

These resources help us explore, examine, and uncover our implicit biases, giving us tools to identify and then discard them. You’ll find tests to determine where you may have your own biases, research, and data to support the need to work on our implicit biases, books, videos, and other resources, along with a special section for those who work in helping professions.

Table of Contents for White Accountability Groups Resources

Insights About Convening White Accountability Groups

Short clips from BONUS Calls /Spring 2021

Identifying Expected Competencies: Creating Racially Inclusive Organizations

How to Balance Clear Expected Learning Outcomes / Competencies in White Accountability Groups While Having Flexibility to Meet People Where They Are
Scaffolding Strategies to Meet People 'Where They Are' and Support Significant Movement to Shift Individual Behavior as Well as Team and Organizational Culture/Climate
How Do You Support Others While Also Realizing You Need to Do Your Own Self-Work and Learning?
Ways to Build a Learning Community of Radical Empathy and Growth, Not Judgment and Critique
As Co-Conveners, How Much Should We Share About Our Own Issues, Emotions and Challenges?
How to Invite Feedback From BIPOC Colleagues When Creating a White Accountability Group

Key Terms and Definitions

How to Address White Privilege to Encourage Engagement, Not Defensiveness
Should Trainings and White Accountability Groups Be Mandatory or Voluntary?
How Do You Work With Leaders Who Talk the Talk but Don’t Use Their Power to Dismantle Racism?
Infusing History in White Accountability Groups
Deepening Understanding of Anti-API Racism
Ways to Raise Awareness of Racist Biases in the Organization
Envision an Anti-Racist Organization
What if Colleagues of Color Say They Aren’t Seeing any Behavior Change From White People?
Indicators of Movement and Progress

Use a Race Lens in Planning and Revising Policies & Practices
Using Racial Affinity and Accountability Spaces in Workshops: Thoughts to Consider
Problematic Behaviors of White Participants in Conversations about Race and Racism, a Beginning List

White Accountability Group (WAG) 2.0 Webinars

Dismantling Racism & Creating Racially Just Organizations: Our Critical Role and Responsibility as White Allies and Change Agents
Kathy’s keynote on “Our Critical Role and Responsibility as White Allies and Change Agents” at the USCD Webinar
Dissertation Research Findings Related to “Costs” of Racism & White Supremacy for White Change Agents
Minimizing Racist Implicit Bias in the Classroom: A Conversation with Dr. Diane Forbes Berthoud

Dismantling Racism & Anti-Blackness in Your Organization Webinars

Dismantling Racism & Creating Racially Just Organizations: Our Critical Role and Responsibility as Anti-Racist White Allies and Change Agents
Dismantling Racism & Anti-Blackness in Your Organization with Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington & Dr. Kathy Obear, Pt. 2 - 7/15/2020
Dismantling Racism and Anti-Blackness in Your Organization with Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington and Dr. Kathy Obear, Part 1 - 7/1/2020
Dismantling Racism & Anti-Blackness in Your Organization with Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington & Dr. Kathy Obear, Pt. 3 - 8/2/2020

Webinars / Videos

Dismantling Racism & Creating Racially Just Organizations

Recognizing and Interrupting Racism in Your Organization 

Dismantling Racism: 1 Hour Video with Student Affairs Live

Webinar: White People Talking to White People About Racism

Recognizing Microaggressions

Recognizing Microaggressions Q&A

Creating Racially Inclusive Classrooms: Part 1

Creating Racially Inclusive Classrooms: Part 2

Creating Racially Inclusive Classrooms: Part 3

Strategies to Use an Inclusion Lens in Crisis Management Webinar

Other Links

Creating Equitable and Inclusive Policies and Procedures

Knowledge Base: A Rich Data Base of Q&A Videos with Dr Kathy Obear

Free Trainings

Navigating Difficult Situations in the Workplace

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This course won’t make you somehow immune to what’s going on around you. It won’t teach you to simply ignore the bad and focus on the good.

This course is about facing up to the reality of the situations and doing something about it.

5 Critical Skills

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The old saying is true, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!”

This course is a toolkit of various strategies and skills that we all need.