THRIVE for all
Workshop & Seminar Leadership Day
Building Empathy and Eliminating Oppression Workshops:
A Deep Look at Racism & Religious Prejudice
AGENTS OF FAITH: THE URGENT NOW
Where: St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Harrisburg
221 North Front Street, Harrisburg, Pa 17101
Parking at no cost in the Diocesan House parking lot; the open parking lot and the PHFA parking garage (both located next to the cathedral)
When: Saturday February 13, 2016 – 8:00 am- 400 pm
Why: Because working to eliminate racism is a highly complex task that requires an understanding of what racism really is and how it impacts all of us.
All-day workshop selections:
#1 Moving From Concern to Action; Anti-Racist Organizational Development
• Understanding systemic inequality and oppression
#2 Straight Talk on Race in the Church and in the Workplace
• Gain a basic framework for understanding prejudice, oppression and specifically racism.
• Understand the impact of racialized language in a work environment.
• Understand the appropriate racial language to use, avoid and why.
• Gain strategies for responding to racist “OUCH!” moments.
#3 best practices, Anti‐Racism Related Programming
• Learn to utilize films and documentaries to generate conversations, e.g., Traces of the Trade; book discussions utilizing bestsellers such as The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 2010/2012 by Michelle Alexander; YouTube conversation-starters, such as “What Kind of Asian Are You?” and “How to Tell Someone They Sound Racist”; and
• Gain facilitation and strategies to present an anti-racism mini program for participants to be able to return to their congregations and present an informational one-three hour workshop for vestries, parish search committees, youth group and youth leaders, as well as social justice and jubilee committees.
Sign up now! At www.DioceseCPA.org on the Homepage
$20.00 registration to include breakfast items & lunch Childcare will be provided, if requested
Registration Questions Contact Linda Arguedas: [email protected]
