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

2. 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

3. 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 –
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