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Workshop Overview
The work of antiracist transformation within institutions requires internal organizers to understand their role as change agents cultivating and leveraging collective power towards a more just institution. In Foundations for Institutional Antiracism Organizing, participants seeking to operationalize antiracism as a way of being will gain frameworks, tools and practice towards building a shared vision and capacity for institutional change. This workshop accomplishes the following objectives:
- Frame internal organizing as a process of leveraging relationships and power to move the institution toward antiracist transformation.
- Describe the organizing skills critical for antiracist transformation work including building a shared vision and identifying stakeholders to build critical mass.
- Begin to reflect individually and as a group on the work necessary to engage these tools.
This one-day workshop offers opportunities for participants to learn and apply new skills and practices for antiracism organizing within an institution. Crossroads facilitators will lead participants deeper into key frameworks from the Introduction to Antiracism workshop and introduce new organizing frameworks and tools. Participants will then engage with case studies, skills practice, individual reflection, and group goal-setting exercises. The workshop is a one-day in-person workshop with six contact hours and two hours of downtime for breaks and lunch.
PREREQUISITE LEARNING:
We ask that participants have previous experience engaging with Crossroads' analysis of systemic racism by having participated in one or more of the following:
- Animating Antiracist Ways of Being (2024), or
- Introduction to Antiracism (2023), or
- Introduction to Systemic Racism (2023 or before), or
- Dominating White Ways (2021 to present), or
- Toward Liberation (2022 or before), or
- Understanding and Analyzing Systemic Racism (2020 or before)
If participants have not experienced any of the above, we recommend renting the webinar before the start of the workshop.
Watch Beyond Diversity: How to Build a Truly Anti-Racist Organization Online | Vimeo On Demand on Vimeo
PRICING:
This workshop is open to participants who are individuals who are opting to join for their own learning and paying out of their own pocket as well as those who are attending as employees representing an institution that is sponsoring their registration. For this reason, we offer two sliding scales for those two different categories of participants.
For individuals paying out of their own pocket, Crossroads recognizes that price can be a barrier to attendance. We have set the value of the workshop at $180 for an individual and invite you to select the price that is appropriate for you.
- Full Price Individual Registration: $180
- Reduced Price Individual Registration: $120
- Half-Price Individual Registration: $90
- Minimum Fee Individual Registration: $35
- Sponsored Individual Registration: $0
If you are authorized by your institution to attend the workshop and they are paying your registration, please select a registration price from our sliding scale based on the gross annual budget:
- Builder Rate: $300 per participant (Institutional budget above $16.5 million)
- Supporter Rate: $240 per participant (Institutional budget between $2 million - $16.5 million)
- Sustainer Rate: $180 per participant (Institutional budget between $400K - $2 million)
- Equity Rate: $120 per participant (Institutional budget under $400k)
In order to ensure confidentiality all participants must register even if you are selecting the $0 registration price. Previous participation is Crossroads workshops does not grant guest, un-registered or unpaid access to Crossroads digital workshops.
Each organization/institution is limited to 6 participants per event.
Though the content of this workshop is not explicitly Christian, the host site for this workshop is a Christian Church where Christian iconography will be visible. If this will make you uncomfortable, please consider attending a future in-person workshop or a digital workshop.
COVID 19 PROTOCOLS:
Crossroads takes the potential risks associated with COVID-19 infection very seriously. We created our COVID-19 policies in the spirit of inviting workshop participants to partner with us to create the optimal environment for doing the important antiracism work you are committed to doing, in the safest, most healthful way possible.
Our policy covers 5 categories of mitigation strategies and describes our Contingency Plan should an event be cancelled due to COVID-19. The categories of mitigation measures covered in this policy are:
- Facilities best practices
- Meeting room best practices
- Individual best practices for participants
- Individual requirements for Crossroads staff
Each of these and our Contingency Plan are described below:
Facilities best practices: Crossroads hosts workshops in facilities that meet or exceed American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recommendations or where adequate social distancing is possible.
Meeting room best practices: Physical distance between individuals is another mitigation strategy for reducing transmission of airborne disease. We use several strategies to increase physical distance between participants and between participants and facilitators, including using larger meeting spaces and various seating strategies. If meals are included with the workshop registration, they will be single serving and/or pre-packaged and additional space will be made available so participants can spread out during mealtimes.
Individual best practices for participants: There are a variety of measures individual participants can take to help create a safer, healthier event for everyone. For example: participants should limit their public exposure in the week prior to the workshop, and have minimal travel through airports, and other densely populated transit hubs. In addition, we ask participants to observe the following precautions:
- Crossroads requests all participants to be fully vaccinated and boosted with any of the Covid-19 vaccine regimes.
- Crossroads provides N95 or KF94 masks to each participant and we require them to be worn at all times during the workshop except while eating. Participants may use their own masks as long as they meet the N95 or KF94 standard.
- Crossroads provides alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol at each table where participants are seated. We also provide sanitizing wipes to use throughout the event to periodically wipe and sanitize the various surfaces they are in contact with throughout the event.
- We recommend testing, using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test or rapid antigen test prior to the start of the workshop. Any participant who tests positive for COVID-19 should refrain from attending the event in person and to explore alternative means of participation. PCR tests should be taken within 48 hours of the start of the event. We encourage participants to test again several days after the event has ended and to notify Crossroads if any event participant tests positive and may have been contagious during the event so we can evaluate the potential exposure of our training staff and the other participants and notify them as appropriate.
Individual requirements for Crossroads staff: All staff are provided with N95 masks to wear throughout travel and while facilitating, hand sanitizer, sanitizing wipes and when appropriate personal air cleaning devices. Staff are provided paid time off to recover from Covid-19 illness.
Contingency Plan: Should a workshop be cancelled prior to starting because of high levels of COVID in the community or because Crossroads cannot provide trainers due to COVID illness, every effort will be made to communicate with participants in advance and to reschedule the workshop for another date. If the rescheduled date is not workable, participants may request a full refund of the workshop fee they paid. The rescheduled workshop may take place in person or online at Crossroads discretion.
If a workshop is cancelled after it has begun because of COVID exposure or illness of one or more trainers, Crossroads will complete the workshop either in person or online at our discretion and no refund of workshop fees will be made.
For more information about our COVID prevention policies, please contact us at registration@crossroadsantiracism.org
Please carefully read the complete workshop and cancellation policies that are include at the bottom of the registration form as well the confirmation email. If you have concerns about your ability to participate or any accommodation needs please contact us at registration@crossroadsantiracism.org.