CREATING CONVERSATIONS TO CALL OUT RACISM STEPHEN BROOKFIELD University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis-St. Paul) www.stephenbrookfield.com

Steps 1-6 Adjust your definition of success – success is having the conversation & keeping it going Frame the need for conversation in terms of the mission, purpose, strategic plan etc. Leaders must talk about their own struggles with racism & their struggles to acknowledge it Multiracial teams model a public conversation Terms are defined – racism, white supremacy etc. Racism understood as structural, systemic - a virus, learned behavior, all pervasive, air we breathe

Steps 7-12 Ground rules – brave space, challenge behavior not the person, only questions, discomfort, anger Videos & testimony studied by community Specific protocols – Bohmian dialog, methodological belief, circle of voices, circular response etc. Anonymous backchannels –www.todaysmeet.com Explanations of your process as facilitator / leader; eg. Applying the principle of fairness, why you stay with a particular person/issue, why you call on ppl Regular formative evaluation shared w/ community