Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED/battery-operated candle Participant evaluations from previous workshop List of this workshop's Goals Covenant established in Workshop 1 Preparation for Activity Practice reading ...

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....

Reflect on your own life experiences: When and how did you learn about race? If you are a person marginalized by race or ethnicity, when and how did you learn what it means to be a Person of Color or someone marginalized by race or ethnicity? What early messages did you receive?...

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 10 Activity 1: Musical Meditation on Racism 35 Activity 2: Reconciling the Various Faces of Racism 65 Closing 10 Alternate Activity 1: Not Somewhere Else, But Here 35...

Although race has become such an obvious source of conflict, identity, and debate in almost every arena of our lives, few attempts are made to clarify what we mean by the term "race." Immeasurable confusion develops wherever peoples talk about racial issues because they are not speaking the same...

"Two Kinds of Intelligence," by Jellaludin Rumi, was translated by Dr. William C. Chittick and published in The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983). Used with permission.The intellect is of two kinds: The first is acquired....

Steps for Dismantling Privilege NAME IT!—Grapple with understanding what privilege is and how it works in everyday life. DEAL WITH IT!—When you identify privilege, address it, and take some personal responsibility for not allowing it to continue. REFRAME IT!—Build new roles, practices, shared...

Activity time: 15 minutes Description of Activity Invite participants to reflect on the small group activity. Ask, "Why does working on issues of racism require working through issues of guilt, shame, and powerlessness?"...

Activity time: 60 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 1, Dismantling Privilege Small group newsprint lists of how privilege manifests in congregational life (from Workshop 5, Activity 4) Newsprint, markers, and tape for each small group Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 1 for all...

Activity time: 15 minutes Description of Activity Invite participants, each in turn, to share an example of when and how they have seen White privilege at work in their daily lives since the last workshop. Including All Participants Remind participants that they may pass if they choose not to share.

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 Singing the Journey, the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook supplement, enough for participants to share Optional: Keyboard Optional: Recording of the song "How Could Anyone?" by Libby Roderick, on the album...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle, and lighter or LED/battery-operated candle Leader Resource 1, Two Kinds of Intelligence Participant evaluations from previous workshop List of this workshop's Goals Covenant established in Workshop ...

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....

Where and when did you notice white privilege in your day-to-day life this week? If you have White/light skin privilege, did you notice when and how it manifests in your daily routines?...

Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 5 Activity 1: Deep Check-in 15 Activity 2: Suggestions for Dismantling Privilege 60 Activity 3: Large Group Discussion 15 Closing 10...

You can always figure out who is executing the system. It appears that almost everybody's executing it, even you are executing it until you are actively fighting it....

Excerpted from Black Pioneers in a White Denomination (Boston: Skinner House, 1992). The problem of segregation in all churches seems more unfortunate when one recognizes that there is much to gain, beyond the realization of liberal values, and racially diverse congregations. Here there is a...

Adapted from a piece originally published in Weaving the Fabric of Diversity (Boston: UUA, 1996). If I am a White person in America: I can turn on my television or watch a movie and see many images of people of my race in a wide variety of roles, including many positive and heroic ones....

Activity time: 15 minutes Materials for Activity Group-generated lists from Activity 4 Description of Activity Lead a large group discussion about the lists generated by the small groups. Draw out participants' insights that arose in the process of creating the lists. You might ask: How easy or...