Anima Café Online
May 26 – Developing Racial Pattern Recognition Skills to Undo Racism
Humans are born with basic pattern recognition skills what allow us to make meaning and navigate the world around us whether learning to speak, read and write, or identifying songs we like to navigating our phone controls by touch and feel. Pattern detection is essential to our very survival as a species. As social justice activists and educators, we have developed a keen awareness to repeated cycles of racial inequity, whether it is the school-to-prison pipeline in education, over-policing in criminal justice or undertreatment in health care. And we are bewildered and often enraged when others do not, or cannot, recognize these systemic patterns that appear so obvious.
But what is obvious to some can be learned by all.
This session will introduce the concept of “racial pattern recognition” as a frame to help learners detect systemic issues related to racism and oppression. We will also explore why the “prejudice habit” is hard to break and why the principle of “slow-is-fast” from trauma therapy is critical to individual as well as policy change. Join us as we continue to discuss effective strategies to teach justice and equity issues without shame and blame.
Title: Developing Racial Pattern Recognition Skills to Undo Racism
Host: Shakil Choudhury
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Time: 12:00-1:30pm (EST)
Zoom link: The zoom link will be posted 1 week in advance
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Archive
Session 1. Love in the Time of Corona: Building Community During Crisis
Session 2. Minding Mental Health: Building Resilience from the Inside Out
Session 3. Making Meaning in Troubled Times: A Critical Leadership Capacity
Session 4. Finding hope in uncertain times: Courageous Leadership for Shifting Systems
Session 5. When Things Fall Apart: Grief as a Leadership and Life Skill with Vanessa Reid
Session 6: Crisis and Transformation: The Feminization of our Leadership Paradigms with Judy Rebick
Session 7: Challenging anti-Black Racism in Organizations with Mahlon Evans-Sinclair, Anima Leadership and Parker Johnson, Anti-Racist Educator and Consultant.
Session 8: Challenging anti-Black Racism in Organizations – Part Two with Mahlon Evans-Sinclair, Anima Leadership and Parker Johnson, Anti-Racist Educator and Consultant.
Session 9: The Conscious Use of Power in Crisis with Special Guest Julie Diamond
Session 10: Back to School: Self-Regulation, Trauma and Equity Perspectives with Karen Thomas and Nick Radia
Session 11: Diversifying Organizations, Leading Inclusion: Tales from the Trenches with Nicholas Davis, Angela Russell and Tobie Mathew
Session 12: Why Leaders Should Use the “F” Word More Often: Rising Authoritarianism in a Trumpian Era with Shakil Choudhury
Session 13: Post-Election Debrief: Leadership for this Age of Discord with Shakil Choudhury, Judy Rebick and Parker Johnson
Session 14: Black History Month: Between Pride and Protest with Mahlon Evans-Sinclair, Akilah Hamilton, Parker Johnson and Jessica Oddy
Session 15: The Roots of Rumi: Cultural Celebration vs Appropriation with Annahid Dashtgard, Khashayar Mohammadi and Emma Lind
Sessin 16: Teaching Racial Justice Without Shame or Blame with Shakil Choudhury