1. Why Build Radical White Community?
Movement & Base Accountability
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Building
Creating an Alternative white Consciousness Raising
culture & community
Skills Building Sustainability
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2.  Create a visible culture of white anti‐racist white people
 Bring in as many people as possible
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 Build capacity within people to take greater anti‐racist action
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3. Building a Saturday Dialogue
basic building blocks
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4. Facilitation Team
guiding the dialogue
Establishes a network of
support and working community
We have found that it works
 h f d h i k
best with 3‐5 people
Working relationships
grounded in mutual investment
& personal growth
Creating a healthy culture for
Creating a healthy culture for
the organization (task and
process)
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5. Prepping to Facilitate
how many meetings a month?
 We meet four times a month
 Each meeting begins with a personal check‐in and ends with a check‐
out
1st Meeting 2nd Meeting 3rd Meeting 4th Meeting
Follow‐up Use goals to Fully flesh Review
debrief from begin to out activities, agenda,
last Dialogue,
last Dialogue sketch out
sketch out assign times
assign times highlight
highlight
brainstorm agenda for and facilitator’s
next topic the next facilitators notes or
and goals meeting and follow up
purpose of questions
activities
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6. Curriculum
topics and agenda
 We ask folks to approach topics through their
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own experiences of being white
 We delve into feelings – focusing on staying
We delve into feelings focusing on staying
grounded and becoming self‐aware
 We value skills building but are not relating to
We value skills building, but are not relating to
Dialogue participants from a place of “this is what
you have to learn today
you have to learn today”
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7. Curriculum
topics and agenda
Intersections of
Interpersonal
Identities
Family Class
Talking to Other
White People
White People Gender
Staying in Relationship Sexual Orientation
Political
with People of Color (Heteronormativity)
Gentrification Immigration
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8. Recruitment / Outreach
getting the word out!
It all began with:
Wordof
Mouth
Began hosting public events: open
B h i bli
house, film night, events with
partners (and radio shows)
 Orientation at beginning of each meeting
We have assigned homework:
We have assigned homework:
talk to someone about AWARE‐LA
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9. Recruitment / Outreach
staying in touch
 Gather contact information
from new participants
 Follow up within a week to see
how it went for them
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10. Ongoing Skills Building
gathering and integrating feedback
ALWAYS
 The art of follow‐up questions
 Effectively challenging while
maintaining a safe space
 Moving through personal triggers
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 We engage folks in the larger community to help with facilitation
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trainings and on‐going development
 We highly value debriefing what was successful and challenging about
each meeting – personally and collectively
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11. Leadership Development
constantly growing
The Saturday Dialogue space grows a pool of people
ready to step up and take on more leadership
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It is important that this process is…
Syste c
Systemic
Careful
Patient
Honest
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12. RIM-
RIM-Workgroups make up the outer
TOOL developed by Transformational Solution© for AWARE
Please credit Cameron Levin info: struggle@earthlink.net
WHEELS Leadership/
rim of the organization where all the main Working
work gets done and where leadership is Development model Holistically to
Evolve and
developed. Elevate
LDP Leadership
Systematically
AR2WS RJA
CT
SDFT
WPG
National Fundraising
Network Workgroup O. 2-12-7
HUB- Coordination
S O S spo es are people
SPOKES- spokes a e peop e
SPOKES-
Team is focused on coordinating
the various components of the power-
power- those who take up a leadership role
work and supporting each area in with AWARE and drive forward specific
their development components of the work.
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13. Conflict
it happens…
 We try our best to stay open to others’ feedback
 We also try to communicate BEFORE it festers into
deeper wounds or RESENTMENT
Task and Process Oriented
Conflict Conflict
Focused Aversion
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14. Conflict
How you understand and deal with it matters
 Can be broken down into three areas:
Interpersonal
Being triggered, Mistrust, Taking things personally, Making
assumptions
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Structural Ideological
The way the work or the Differences of approach,
organization is structured, strategy, and opinion about
Decision‐making processes
Decision‐making processes the work itself
the work itself
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15. Two Space Model
Negotiating numbers and analysis
 Over the years a couple dynamics started presenting
themselves:
 Large groups mean less intimacy
 Familiarity with and integration of anti‐racist
principles, models, language, and practice varies
greatly among the participants
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16. Two Space Model
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Negotiating numbers and analysis
 AWARE‐LA Saturday Dialogues now have two simultaneous spaces:
AWARE LA Saturday Dialogues now have two simultaneous spaces:
Building Analysis Work, Life &
Action
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Focuses on the core Focuses on anti-racist daily
principles of AWARE LA’s
AWARE-LA’s practice and applying the
theory and practice concepts of RWI and RWC
Focuses on developing the Components of this space
language, tools, and practice include supportive
of radical white identity and engagement, feedback, and
community open space
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17. Putting this into Action in
Putting this into Action in
Your Local Context
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