Interrupting Racism for Everyday Living

Date: 
02/12/2011 - 8:30am - 12:30pm

This interactive actionshop will explore what we can do when racism arises in our everyday lives - at the grocery store, at a family gathering, in our neighborhood or workplace. Come ready to learn three tools for interrupting racism and practice-practice-practice!

Continental breakfast provided.

No mediation experience required. This actionshop focuses on responding to situations in our everyday lives.

Cost

The market rate for this training is $100 per person. We are offering a sliding scale in an effort to make it accessible and to build community capacity. If you like our work and want to support what we do, please consider paying the full fee if you are able. No one turned away for lack of funds. Please choose a fee you are comfortable paying or contact us to make other arrangements.

    $0 - $100 for RNW volunteers currently on mentorship shifts or currently in facilitation pool (This training counts towards your volunteer hours!)

    $10 - $100 for all other RNW volunteers

    $15 - $100 for all others

Trainer Bios

Cassaundra Adams Murphy is a volunteer mediator and facilitator with Resolutions Northwest. In her day job she is the Senior Trainer for Epicare Inpatient at OHSU.

Teri Pierson is Resolutions Northwest's Facilitation Program Coordinator. Her graduate studies focused on intercultural conflict resolution. She volunteers as an inter-group dialogue facilitator through Portland’s Office of Human Relations.

Sandy Bacharach is Resolutions Northwest's Spanish Language Mediation Specialist, strengthening the organization's ability to provide mediation services to Latino communities. Her perspective is informed, in part, as a Spanish-speaking White person who has been working with Latinos and in Latino communities since the mid ‘90s.

Space is limited to 26 people. Act now! – 1st come, 1st serve.

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