Leading White Accountability Groups in Your Organization
Deepen your capacity to design and facilitate transformational learning and growth.
with Dr. Kathy Obear
Why White Accountability Groups?
White leaders and change agents need to accelerate their capacity to dismantle systemic racism. 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.
This course is designed to deepen your capacity to:
Anticipate and effectively engage common types of resistance and difficult conversations
Lead conversations about the damaging impact of anti-Blackness, White Privilege, and White Supremacy Culture in the organization
Work with leaders to get their buy-in and organizational support for White Accountability Groups
Teach participants how to use a Race Lens to analyze & revise current policies, practices, programs, & products to create more racially inclusive client services & work environments
Teach participants the skills to effectively interrupt and shift racist dynamics and interpersonal aggressions in the moment
Develop a powerful, scaffolded curriculum to help participants recognize racist attitudes and behaviors in themselves and others
To have inclusive organizations, it’s imperative that as whites, we do our own healing work to disrupt and unlearn all the internalized dominance and racist beliefs we were taught and still hold onto.
Forming Effective White Accountability Groups
Excited about co-creating far more racially inclusive organizations in this time of national change and possibility?
Join Dr. Kathy Obear in her dynamic self-paced, virtual course Leading White Accountability Groups in Your Organization.
Who Should Participate?
- Change agents who want to design and lead White Accountability Groups
- Leaders and Human Resources professionals who want to learn how to sponsor and support these innovative leadership development opportunities
- EDI leaders and members of Equity & Inclusion Councils who want more strategies for launching White Accountability Groups and navigating organizational resistance
What Others Have to Say About Working with Kathy...
Susie Mahoney, Ed.D.
Mid-level Manager
“Kathy’s sessions are engaging, interactive and nonthreatening. She creates a brave space where people can honestly engage and learn from each other’s stories and experiences.”
Arlene Nededog
Director of Inclusion
“I loved Kathy’s energy and capacity to engage the participants. Her thought provoking activities, handouts, and discussions that allowed me to go from the cognitive to the affective. Self care is one of the most important factors in being a successful change agent.”
Megan Kosovski
Academic Advisor, Colorado State University
“Dr. Obear’s energy and passion have helped me to feel a renewed sense of purpose, self-worth, and energy.”
Deanne W. Hurley
VP for Enrollment Management + Student Affairs, Ursuline College
“Doing work around inclusion and equity is hard. Dr. Obear uses humor and story telling to help people to understand. Everyone comes into professional development at different levels and she does an excellent job at not shaming or blaming but trying to help others have self-awareness and an appreciation for others.”
What to Expect:
Leading White Accountability Groups in Your Organization
This self-paced, virtual course includes:
- Trainings to learn foundational concepts and steps to help you design and launch White Accountability Groups
- A downloadable copy of the extensive Workbook, designed specifically for this course.
- A free copy of Kathy’s book: …But I’m Not Racist! Tools for Well-Meaning Whites with supplemental resources, including the Book Club Guide.
- Access to many additional videos to help you design and lead White Accountability Groups, including recordings of two live Virtual Institutes, three hours long EACH, with so many learning tools.
Deepen the capacity to implement the tools necessary to ensure progress and sustainable change during these transformational times.
Any profits will be invested in BIPOC-LED Anti-Racist Organizations by Dr. Kathy Obear
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