1. Student Affairs Diversity Committee Take Action Training

2. Let’s Get Started Why are you here?
What do you expect to learn/discuss?

3. Objectives To increase understanding of social justice
To increase awareness of the privileges & discriminations of different social groups & identities
To identify positive methods to take action & challenge ideas to enhance active community involvement

4. Ground Rules We expect you to engage today
This is a time for open dialogue
Don’t make assumptions
Don’t pass judgment
Don’t hold back – with questions and/or sharing

5. Seahawk Respect Compact

7. Privilege How do you define privilege? Presentation Definition
Gives advantages, favors, and benefits to members of dominant groups at the expense of target groups
Works on interpersonal, cultural, & institutional levels
Characteristically invisible to people who have it,
Privilege is unearned, and granted to people in the dominant groups whether they want it or not

8. Privilege Inventory Worksheet
Activity - Privilege
Privilege Inventory Worksheet

9. Privilege to Oppression
Every time an individual experiences privilege someone else is experiencing oppression
Many people operate from a place where their oppressiveness is unconscious
THINK – Was there a time when a part of your identity gave you privilege?
THINK – Was there a time when a part of your identity did not give you privilege?

10. Privilege
How Does Privilege Impact Those Who Have and Have Not?

11. Understanding Injustice
Social Identities
Privileged Social Group
Targeted Social Group
Border Social Group
-ism
Race
Sex
Gender
Sexual Orientation
Class
Ability/Disability
Religion
Age
White People
Bio Men
Gender conforming bio men and women
Heterosexual people
Rich, upper class people
Temporarily able-bodied people
Protestants
Adults
Asian, Black, Latino, Native Americans
Bio Women
Transgender, gender queer, intersex
Lesbians, gay men
Working class, poor people
People with disabilities
Jews, Muslims, Hindus
Elders, Young People
Biracial/multiracial people
Transsexual intersex
Gender ambiguous bio men and women
Bisexual people
Middle class people
People w temporary disabilities
Roman catholic (historically)
Young Adults
Racism
Sexism
Transgender oppression
Heterosexism
Classism
Ableism
Religious oppression
Ageism

12. What Would You Do? OR

13. What Would You Do? What type of reactions did we see?
What were the most effective reactions?
What if no one intervened? What would have been the consequences?

14. Confrontation
What do you think when you hear the word “confrontation”?
Does the word confrontation have a negative connotation?
What are some benefits to confrontation?
What is hard about confrontation?
How can confrontation help others?

15. Taking Action
When you see something occurring that needs to be addressed try not to:
React
Attack
Breathe

16. Taking Action Instead try to use the B.A.R. Key to Communication:
Step 1: Breathe
Step 2: Acknowledge
Step 3: Respond
While responding also try to:
Use I statements (I feel …)
Address the statement or belief, not attack the person

17. Six Steps to Speaking Up
Be Ready
Identify the Behavior
Appeal to principles
Set Limits
Find an Ally/Be an Ally
Be Vigilant

18. Questions & Thoughts
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only” - Albert Einstein