In-Person, Animating Antiracism Customized for Religious Leaders, July 12th (9am-4pm) and 13th (9am-12.30pm) 2025

Workshop Overview

Animating Antiracism as a Way of Being And…

Talking about race and racial discrimination can be hard, but it’s important to understand how to fix these ongoing social issues. When we talk about belonging and diversity as strengths for communities and organizations, we must also recognize the challenges preventing these goals. Crossroads’ experience shows that understanding antiracism and what it requires from leaders is key to creating diverse, fair, and welcoming places. This involves developing a shared understanding of how systemic discrimination, particularly racism, operates within institutions, practicing the identification of its impacts in people and their communities, recognizing how institutions unintentionally contribute to these impacts, and exploring tools for imagining solutions. This special edition of Crossroads foundational workshop will provide participants with an expanded exploration of institutional organizing and how to navigate the climate of retrenchment permeating our culture.

Workshop Objectives:

• Introduce a way to understand antiracism and what it asks of institutions and their leaders.
• Surface how systemic racism arises from a culture that values dominance as a core principle.
• Explore how our systems uphold systemic discrimination, benefiting dominant groups and harming marginalized ones, especially people of color.
• Begin exploring the long-term work needed to break down systemic racial injustice in institutions and society, with a focus on religious institutions and buidling leadership capacity in them.

Saturday, July 12^th 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Sunday, July 13^th 9:00 am to 12:30 pm

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 or stakeholders 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
  • For individuals who are able to cover all their costs of the workshop
• Reduced Price Individual Registration: $120
  • For individuals with ample resources
• Half-Price Individual Registration: $90
  • For individuals with moderate resources
• Minimum Fee Individual Registration: $35
  • For individuals with modest resources
• Sponsored Individual Registration: $0

If you are authorized by your institution to attend the workshop and they are paying your registration, please select a ticket price from our sliding scale based on the gross annual budget:

• Builder Rate: $300 per participant
  • For institutions with an institutional budget above $16.5 million
• Supporter Rate: $240 per participant
  • For institutions with an institutional budget between $2 million - $16.5 million
• Sustainer Rate: $180 per participant
  • For institutions with an institutional budget between $400K - $2 million
• Equity Rate: $120 per participant
  • For institutions with an 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.

Timing Considerations before Registering

Participants will not be granted access into the workshop after the Courageous Space Agreement, which is generally concluded in the first 30 minutes. Full day workshops include a 90-minute lunch break, as well as breaks to stretch and take care of yourself every hour.

All workshop participants are expected to attend the complete workshop from beginning to end, going "in and out" of the workshop space is not permitted. 

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

Location

Though the content of this workshop is not explicitly Christian, the host site for this workshop is a Christian Seminary where Christian and other religious iconography may be visible. If this will make you uncomfortable, please consider attending a future in-person workshop or a digital workshop.

Location address: 
Chicago Theological Seminary, 1407 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637

Heath Equity and Infectious Disease Prevention

Crossroads view the potential risks associated with the spread of infectious disease from a health equity standpoint. We created our Health and Safety Policy in the spirit of inviting workshop participants to partner with us to promote health equity while doing the important antiracism work you are committed to doing. While most sectors of society have moved on from enforcing COVID-19 prevention protocols, we have taken the lessons learned during the pandemic to create strategies to implement reasonable accommodations to allow safe participation by those with immune compromising conditions.

Science developed during the pandemic and since indicates the most reliable disease prevention strategies are those that individuals can exercise control over. Consequently, we strongly encourage the following strategies for all participants:

• While we do not require vaccinations or disclosure of vaccination status to participate in our workshops/events, Crossroads strongly recommends being fully vaccinated for seasonal influenza, COVID-19 and any other vaccinations your health care provider recommends

• Practicing strict hand hygiene and using alcohol-based sanitizers on high touch surfaces, have been clinically demonstrated to prevent transfer of virus and bacteria from hard surfaces and hands to mucus membranes where they can enter the body and produce illness. Crossroads will provide hand sanitizer and/or sanitizing wipes at the workshops we host

• Self-monitor for signs of infectious disease including Influenza, COVID-19, RSV, etc. before, during and immediately after the event and withdraw from event participation if experiencing symptoms. Participants withdrawing because of illness will not be subject to the cancellation policy and will be allowed to register in a future event at no additional cost.

• Contact us if you experience symptoms or test positive for viral or bacterial infectious disease within 5 days of attending the event so we can take steps to monitor our staff and notify other participants.

• Wearing good quality N95 masks has been shown to effectively reduce potential exposure to airborne infectious disease. In the context of its public workshops, Crossroads reserves the right to require mask wearing when certain conditions are present as described below.

Mask wearing to promote health equity: Unfortunately, some localities have enacted laws preventing us from requiring mask wearing at our events; however, we are able to require mask wearing in Illinois and Minnesota where we often host workshops. In these locations (and other locations that permit it) we ask questions on our registration form that help us determine whether mask wearing is required to allow individuals who are immunocompromised to attend the workshop/event with relative safety. First, we ask, “Do you routinely wear a mask in public due to being immunocompromised?” and second, “Do you agree to wear an N95 mask during the workshop in order to make the workshop accessible to participants who may be immunocompromised.”

If a participant answers “yes” to the first question, we will notify all participants within 48 hours of the start of the event, that in order to make the event health equitable, we are requiring all participants to wear masks, which will be provided. If you do not want to attend an event where mask wearing is potentially required and you answer “no” to the second question, we recommend registering for a digital workshop instead.

In the event there is a local outbreak of infectious disease in a community where a workshop/event is scheduled (during seasonal flu season for example), and Crossroads deems it unsafe to be in a public setting without wearing masks, we will inform participants no later that 48 hours in advance that mask wearing will be required during the workshop and Crossroads will provide masks. Any participant wishing to opt out of a “mask required” workshop will be allowed to transfer to a digital workshop without additional charge. If local laws prevent mask mandates and Crossroads deems it unsafe to be in public without one, the workshop will be rescheduled or moved to a digital platform, at Crossroads discretion and no refunds or price reductions will be offered.

Contingency Plan: Should a workshop be cancelled prior to starting because of high levels of influenza, COVID or other highly infectious disease in the community or because Crossroads cannot provide trainers due to 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 influenza, COVID or other highly infectious disease 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 Health and Safety Policy, 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.

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