Workshop 16: Practicing Multicultural Competency

In This Section

• Introduction

  Wherever I go this year, leaders are telling me stories of what their congregations are doing to address issues of race and class. From...
• Workshop-at-a-Glance

  Activity Minutes Welcoming and Entering 0 Opening 10 Activity 1: Moving toward Multicultural Competence 15 Activity 2: Challenges of...
• Spiritual Preparation

  As you prepare to guide participants in developing multicultural consciousness and practices, remember that your congregation has entrusted...
• Welcoming and Entering

  Materials for Activity Sign-in sheet and pen or pencil Name tags for participants (durable or single-use) and bold markers Optional: Music...
• Opening

  Materials for Activity Worship table or designated space Chalice, candle and lighter or LED battery-operated candle Participant evaluations...
• Activity 1: Moving toward Multicultural Competence

  Materials for Activity Handout 1, Path toward a Multiracial, Multicultural Congregation Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 1, Path...
• Activity 2: Challenges of Building Multicultural Communities

  Materials for Activity Leader Resource 1, The Bridge Poem Preparation for Activity Print Leader Resource 1, The Bridge Poem and practice...
• Activity 3: Developing Multicultural Competence through Skits

  Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers, and tape Reflection group assignments (Workshop 2) Workshop 14, Handout 3, Multicultural...
• Closing

  Materials for Activity Lined paper, pens, and pencils Taking It Home Preparation for Activity Write on newsprint, and post: What are you...
• Leader Reflection and Planning

  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...
• Taking It Home

  Wherever I go this year, leaders are telling me stories of what their congregations are doing to address issues of race and class. From...
• Handout 1: Path toward a Multiracial, Multicultural Congregation

  Participate in Cross-Cultural or Multicultural Conversations Create opportunities to learn about and engage others in conversations across...
• Handout 2: Procedure for Creating Your Skit

  Choose a timekeeper to keep the group on task. You will have 20 minutes to create your skit Invite each person in your small reflection...
• Leader Resource 1: The Bridge Poem

  By Donna Kate Rushin

  "The Bridge Poem" from The Black Back-Ups: Poetry by Kate Rushin (Ann Arbor, MI: Firebrand Books, 1993). Permission pending. I've had...
• Find Out More

  The UUA Multicultural Growth & Witness staff group offers resources, curricula, trainings, and tools to help Unitarian Universalist...