1. Anti-Oppressive Practice
Christina Meredith and Sarah Hunter
9:00am
Welcome, music playing, participants seated in small groups of 4-6 people

2. Introduction and community building
Who are we?
Who are you?
What brought you to this session?
What do you hope to take away?
1. Introduce ourselves
2. Have participants in groups of 4: Who are you, What brought you to this session, and what do you hope to take away? Share within their tables.

3. Starting the conversation…planting a seed!
Today we will…
Learn about power, oppression and privilege as they relate to AOP
Explore definitions and principles of Anti-Oppressive Practice (AOP)
Consider how these concepts relate to our practice as student advocates, teachers and supporters
Explore strategies to disrupt oppressive behaviours in our practice with students, colleagues and the institution

4. activity
Experiential activity – privilege paper toss OR privilege walk

5. Power, Privilege and Oppression
Power: the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events
Privilege: a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people
Oppression: the state of being subject to unjust treatment or control

6. Defining anti-oppressive practice
Using the informational pieces provided begin to explore your own definition of AOP
Next…
As a group share your definition
Create ONE definition that is reflective of the common elements and strengths
Placemat activity – provide each person the space to explore the definitions and craft their own definition
Share within their tables and create one inclusive definition as a table
Each table group shares back

7. What does AOP mean to you?
Group Share back of definitions

8. What might it look like in practice
Looks like, sounds like, feels like?
Graffiti brainstorm – each table records what this might look like, sound like, feel like – whole group share back of three highlights

9. What challenges do you foresee in implementing AOP in your work with…
Students
The institution
Colleagues
Open Space Technology for Slides 9-10

10. Forward momentum How do we disrupt this?
How do we manage change through this?
How do we move forward?

11. Start, stop, continue