Navigating Resistance to Change Series
Navigating Resistance to Change is a learning series for white people dedicated to naming, anticipating, preventing, and navigating the predictable ways that organizations resist change towards greater racial equity.
Purchase just the livestream(s) that interest you, or purchase the entire 6-workshop series at a discount. Attend live or rewatch recordings at your own pace.
Each session covers one form of resistance in a 60-minute live zoom setting, guided by 2 white members of our team. We'll focus on how aspects of whiteness get in the way of an organization's best efforts and intentions to change, and how we as white people can take up the work of mitigating resistance. What to expect in each module:
Explore one form of resistance, what it looks like, when to predict it will emerge, and how it functions in organizations to keep things the way they are — to protect the inequitable and harmful racial status quo.
Map your organization: identify how one form of resistance shows up in your context (around you, within you)
Practice tools and tips for navigating one form of resistance, so a racial equity agenda and goals can be pursued.
Commit to at least one new practice to navigate one form of resistance to racial equity work.
Gain access to support and feedback from facilitators, and a postwork toolkit full of activities and resources.
UPCOMING SESSIONS:
Jun 6, 12:30p-1:30p PT / 3:30p-4:30p ET. Exits and Obstacles: common ways race/gender+ is taken off the table — taken out of conversations, analysis, and decision making — to the detriment of a racial equity agenda and goals, and how to persist anyway. $100-$200 sliding scale
Jun 26, 12:30p-1:30p PT / 3:30p-4:30p ET. Competing Agendas and Norms: Normalizing and navigating tensions and conflicts between the racial equity agenda, and how different stakeholders have been professionally trained (as managers, finance, human resources, legal, leaders, etc.). $100-$200 sliding scale
Jul 18, 12:30p-1:30p PT / 3:30p-4:30p ET. Discomfort, Dominance, and Accommodation: how to prevent white discomfort from slowing, halting, or watering down your efforts to materially improve conditions for women and People of Color. $100-$200 sliding scale
Aug 8, 12:30p-1:30p PT / 3:30p-4:30p ET. White Behavioral Dynamics in Groups: 4 common ways white people show up in multiracial spaces that sets racial equity work backward, and new ways of moving together that minimize harm and keep the racial equity agenda front and center. $100-$200 sliding scale
Aug 28, 12:30p-1:30p PT / 3:30p-4:30p ET. Language policing and anti-DEI rhetoric: Reframing oppositional efforts to frame racial equity as forbidden, taboo, or unfair. $100-$200 sliding scale
Sep 19, 12:30p-1:30p PT / 3:30p-4:30p ET. Invalidation, denial, minimizing: When your organizational assessment results or other data come out, addressing predictable invalidation, denying, minimizing, or deferring responsibility. $100-$200 sliding scale
Entire series of 6 modules, attend live, or watch recordings so you can engage at your own pace. Contains all tools, resources, and activities used in the live course. $500-$1000 $400-$800 sliding scale