Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Name tags for participants (durable or single-use) and bold markers Optional: Music and player Optional: Snacks and beverages Preparation for Activity Arrange chairs in a circle and set out name tags and markers on a table....

Spend some time doing your own aesthetic journaling creation about White identity (see Activity 2). Reflect on these questions and write or draw in your journal: What is the story you are telling? What questions or wonderings do you now have about the work you've created? What did you want to...

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 10 Activity 1: Aesthetic Journaling on Whiteness 60 Activity 2: Exploring the Creation in Triads 30 Activity 3: Large Group Reflection 10 Closing 10...

The struggle for racial justice in America calls those of us who are White to make this journey. Our presence is needed. We have been absent too long. — Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, from Soul Work: Anti-racist Theologies in Dialogue, Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley and Nancy Palmer Jones, editors (Boston:...

From Another River: New and Selected Poems (Amherst Writers and Artists Press, 2005). Used with permission. The self you leave behind is only a skin you have outgrown. Don't grieve for it. Look to the wet, raw, unfinished self, the one you are becoming....

Read these sentences aloud in pairs, pausing briefly between the two items in each pair, and pausing again after each pair is read. This is my best friend, Mandy This is my best White friend, Mandy I love green beans I love green beans made by that White company, Dole Foods I live in the...

By Dr. Gregory Jay, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. March 17, 2005. Read this piece online. "Whiteness... " is not an attack on people, whatever their skin color. Instead, [it] is an attempt to think critically about how white skin preference has operated systematically,...

I was born White and have been that way for more than 60 years. The first 18 of those years can best be described as a period of "cultural encapsulation." (J. A. Banks, 1994) Since I had never met a person who wasn't White, I had never experienced the "other"; race for me was a nonrelevant concept.

Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Film clips that show White privilege at work. Computer or DVD player or projector Preparation for Activity Obtain movies from which to select clips....

Activity time: 35 minutes Materials for Activity Workshop 2, Leader Resource 2, Serial Testimony Protocol Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Review Workshop 2, Leader Resource 2. Review the reflection group assignments you established for Workshop 2 and make changes as needed.

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 2, Whiteness Defined Brainstorming list from Activity 2 Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 2 for all participants. Post brainstorm list from Activity 2....

Activity time: 35 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, Discovering Whiteness Newsprint, markers, and tape Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 1 for all participants. Description of Activity Distribute and read aloud Handout 1, explaining that it is a first person narrative....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 1, Putting "White" on the Table Preparation for Activity Print Leader Resource 1 and familiarize yourself with it....

Take a few moments right after the workshop to ask each other: What went well? What didn't? Why? What do you think was the best moment of the workshop? Why? Did anything surprise you? Do we need to make changes in the way we work together?

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Lined paper and pens/pencils Taking It Home Leader Resource 2, Instructions for the Journey Preparation for Activity Write this prompt on newsprint, and post: What ideas were most interesting or challenging to you? What powerful ideas, concerns, or...

Activity time: 10 minutes Preparation for Activity Practice reading the chalice lighting aloud. Review participant evaluations from the previous workshop. Discuss with your co-facilitators any patterns or concerns that have emerged. Prepare to briefly share feedback with the group, while keeping...

Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Name tags for participants (durable or single-use) and bold markers Optional: Music and player Optional: Snacks and beverages Preparation for Activity Arrange chairs in a circle and set out name tags and markers on a table....

If you are a White person, meditate or journal about how you discovered your "whiteness." What role has Whiteness played in your life? If you are a Person of Color or from a group marginalized by race or ethnicity, how did you learn about "Whiteness?" How has Whiteness impacted your life?

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 10 Activity 1: Putting "White" on the Table 15 Activity 2: Discovering Whiteness 35 Activity 3: Whiteness Defined 15 Activity 4: Serial Testimony 35 Closing 10 Alternate Activity 1: Exploring Race in Film 20...

To consider "Whiteness" . . . is not an attack on people, whatever their skin color. Instead, (it) is an attempt to think critically about how white skin preference has operated systematically, structurally and sometimes unconsciously as a dominant force in American—and indeed in global society...