Crossroads Antiracism: April 17, 2021: Critical Cultural Competency (CENTRAL TIME)

The Critical Cultural Competency workshop is built on the premise that US society has a dominant set of norms, values and ways of life. This dominant culture establishes the rules and laws by which all people and their ways of life are measured, resulting in a society with unjust power dynamics based on socially constructed identities such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability.

The workshop will examine the ways that US society values and advantages some groups while devaluing and disadvantaging other groups based on socially defined categories. The workshop will explore how people within institutions can begin to create new institutional culture by rooting their structure and organizational lifeways in a set of anti-oppressive, transformational values.

This Critical Cultural Competency workshop is designed for participants who want to understand the ways that societal inequity is embedded in institutional life as well as in individuals through socialization processes that shape thoughts and behaviors. Participants will examine unconscious bias and learn about the value shift required to start creating more equitable provision of services, programs, and institutional culture.

Participants will:

1) Gain understanding of the cultural power dynamics between dominant and marginalized identity groups and the socialization processes that uphold them

2) Explore the impact of these cultural dynamics on individuals

3) Explore the dominant cultural values that operate in our institutions to maintain oppression and the transformational values that can help create a more equitable institutional culture

Each organization/institution is limited to sending 4 individuals to these public workshops. If you are authorized by your institution to attend the workshop and they are paying your registration, and your institutional budget is greater than $2 million, the price of the workshop is $200 per person.

Crossroads has set the value of the workshop at $100 for individuals attending and paying out of their own pocket; recognizing that price can be a barrier to attendance, we invite you to pay what is appropriate for you. 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.

All workshop participants are expected to attend the complete workshop from beginning to end and to not go " in and out" of the workshop space. Participants who repeatedly leave the workshop while it is in progress may not be allowed to re-enter the workshop at the discretion of the facilitators. In addition, if participants turn off their camera and the facilitators perceive this is done to mask disengagement from the workshop, they will be dropped from the Zoom feed and not allowed to re-enter.

The link to the workshop will be sent to you the week before the event. Please note- this workshop will be hosted on Zoom. In order to access the full functions of Zoom it is best to be on a laptop or desktop computer. A tablet or phone will limit your ability to interact.

Please create a free Zoom account beforehand: https://zoom.us/freesignup/