1. Welcome! We will begin soon.
Knowing Ourselves: Undoing Racism as a Spiritual Practice
Webinar #1 ∙ May 1, 2018 Lucy Duncan, Myrna Orozco & Julica Hermann de la Fuente
Welcome! We will begin soon.

2. 5 minute journaling exercise:
I am called to racial justice because…
This is essential spiritual work because…
What I hope to learn and become as I do this work is…

3. Three “buckets” to hold some tools:
Who we are and what we bring to this work
The systems we are working with/against
How to best show up as we do this work

4. Source: Beyond Culture (1976) by Edward T. Hall

6. Oppression Matrix Source: Adams, Bell & Griffin, eds. 1997.
Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook.

7. White Supremacy Culture in Organizations by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, 2001
An analysis of how we behave in groups, in organizations
Ways we privilege white ways of thinking and doing
Some examples: sense of urgency; “I’m the only one;” perfectionism; worship of the written word; quantity over quality; only one right way
Antidotes to these behaviors!

8. “Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation…. However, as they cease to be exploiters or indifferent spectators or simply the heirs of exploitation and move to the side of the exploited, they almost always bring with them the marks of their origin: their prejudices and their deformations, which include a lack of confidence in the people’s ability to think, to want, and to know….
[Oppressors turned allies] truly desire to transform the unjust order; but because of their background they believe that they must be the executors of the transformation. They talk about the people, but they do not trust them; and trusting the people is the indispensable precondition for revolutionary change.”
~Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed