Transforming Culture and Naming Racism in Organizations
a one-day workshop for teams with Mattice Haynes and Jen Willsea
New date and location coming soon! Contact me if you're interested in hosting this workshop for your organization or network.
This workshop is designed for organizational teams (2-5 people from the same organization) to develop or strengthen:
Mattice Haynes and Jen Willsea are Atlanta-based master facilitators and consultants who support residents, leaders, and organizations in Atlanta and across the country in deepening their inner and outer racial justice work. Mattice and Jen regularly collaborate as a multiracial facilitation team to lead workshops, convenings, and sessions which engage groups in understanding and taking actions on the root causes of racial injustice. Our reputation in Atlanta is as the multiracial facilitation team that consistently brings people together for honest and breakthrough conversations, using cutting edge methodologies from the evolving field of racial justice, and modeling what anti-racism looks like as individuals and as a team.
This workshop is designed for organizational teams (2-5 people from the same organization) to develop or strengthen:
- An understanding of the system of racism and how it operates within organizations
- A shared awareness of practices that support an inclusive and equitable organizational culture
- Actionable next steps to implement within your organization
Mattice Haynes and Jen Willsea are Atlanta-based master facilitators and consultants who support residents, leaders, and organizations in Atlanta and across the country in deepening their inner and outer racial justice work. Mattice and Jen regularly collaborate as a multiracial facilitation team to lead workshops, convenings, and sessions which engage groups in understanding and taking actions on the root causes of racial injustice. Our reputation in Atlanta is as the multiracial facilitation team that consistently brings people together for honest and breakthrough conversations, using cutting edge methodologies from the evolving field of racial justice, and modeling what anti-racism looks like as individuals and as a team.
Photos of our August 27, 2019 workshop by Crystal Monds.
The Black mecca Project Series
a multiracial conversation series fall 2019 co-facilitated by Mattice Haynes and Jen Willsea
Part 1: Reckon on September 11
Part 2: Imagine on October 9
Part 3: Practice on November 13
Part 4: Embody on December 11
The Black mecca Project (TBmP) is a call to all Atlantans who share a deep love of freedom, Atlanta, the South, and all Black people. We envision Atlanta as a fully-realized Black mecca, free of anti-black racism, gender oppression, and classism. TBmP is Atlanta's Black liberation lab, launching in August 2019. This year, we want to engage with you around our approach to collectively moving from oppression to liberation. This approach invites us all to:
RECKON with history, reckon with the gap between common narratives about Atlanta and the reality
IMAGINE a fully-realized Black mecca
PRACTICE using our power in liberatory ways
EMBODY equity, justice and liberation
TBmP serves as a platform and a resource for Black womxn (and our accomplices) to cultivate the conditions for Black liberation and self-determination in Atlanta, Georgia. TBmP offers a shared workspace, transformational workshops, communal healing activities, and event space to put our values into action. The Black mecca Project is a registered nonprofit organization in the State of Georgia. We accept tax-deductible donations through our fiscal agent, Inquiring Systems, Inc. EIN: 94-2524840a
Part 2: Imagine on October 9
Part 3: Practice on November 13
Part 4: Embody on December 11
The Black mecca Project (TBmP) is a call to all Atlantans who share a deep love of freedom, Atlanta, the South, and all Black people. We envision Atlanta as a fully-realized Black mecca, free of anti-black racism, gender oppression, and classism. TBmP is Atlanta's Black liberation lab, launching in August 2019. This year, we want to engage with you around our approach to collectively moving from oppression to liberation. This approach invites us all to:
RECKON with history, reckon with the gap between common narratives about Atlanta and the reality
IMAGINE a fully-realized Black mecca
PRACTICE using our power in liberatory ways
EMBODY equity, justice and liberation
TBmP serves as a platform and a resource for Black womxn (and our accomplices) to cultivate the conditions for Black liberation and self-determination in Atlanta, Georgia. TBmP offers a shared workspace, transformational workshops, communal healing activities, and event space to put our values into action. The Black mecca Project is a registered nonprofit organization in the State of Georgia. We accept tax-deductible donations through our fiscal agent, Inquiring Systems, Inc. EIN: 94-2524840a
Transforming White Privilege:
A 21st Century Leadership Capacity
a two-day workshop
Contact me if you're interested in hosting this workshop for your group!
The Transforming White Privilege (TWP) curriculum is designed to help current and emerging leaders from a variety of sectors better identify, talk about and intervene to address white privilege and its consequences.
Major topics we will cover are:
As a participant in this workshop, you will identify your strengths, and build your confidence and skills to take action for racial justice.
This workshop curriculum was created by The Center for Assessment and Policy Development (CAPD), MP Associates and World Trust Educational Services, funded by The W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
The Transforming White Privilege (TWP) curriculum is designed to help current and emerging leaders from a variety of sectors better identify, talk about and intervene to address white privilege and its consequences.
Major topics we will cover are:
- Understanding how white privilege operates and is maintained within a system of inequity
- How “whiteness” itself was created
- Ways in which specific history, culture, laws and policies, economics and power helped to create and maintain a set of accumulated advantages for groups labeled “white” and a set of accumulating disadvantages for groups not considered “white” at various points in U.S. history
- Tools for change, including: strategic questioning, entry points, mental checklists, framing
As a participant in this workshop, you will identify your strengths, and build your confidence and skills to take action for racial justice.
This workshop curriculum was created by The Center for Assessment and Policy Development (CAPD), MP Associates and World Trust Educational Services, funded by The W.K. Kellogg Foundation.