Challening Racism in Organizations

Challenging Racism in Organizations, with Tina Lopes
August 23 - 27; Sun 7pm to Thurs 1pm
Explore the impacts of racism on the services, employment systems and relations among staff and clients within your organizations, and develop tools and skills to analyze and address issues that arise in this work. Through an intensive process, you will develop an understanding of how the social identities we all carry shape our experience of society and affect our relationships with those who have different identities. Also, begin to analyze and address the systemic racism that persists in society and organizations, finding effective responses for our work, life and even our family. The sessions will be participatory, drawing on adult and critical education methodologies.

Leadership: Tina Lopes is a facilitator, educator, mediator and author, who works with those who want to change the structures, policies and cultures of their organizations, to create greater democracy and equity. She leads sessions in anti-oppression organizational change, conflict mediation, strategic planning and developing democratic practices in the workplace. Tina has worked with Children's Aid Societies, Correctional Services, the Department of Canadian Heritage, community and social service agencies, unions, municipal departments, and a variety of advocacy organizations. Tina co-authored Dancing on Live Embers: Challenging Racism in Organizations and teaches at York University.

Stephen Law, Social Transformation Program Coordinator.

For more information and to register: http://tatacentre.ca/programs/details/110