Social Justice Training

Social Justice Training is a professional development opportunity for students, staff, faculty, residential and business communities, student and professional employees, executive boards, corporate, federal, state, local, or new leaders to deepen their diversity awareness, knowledge and skill sets allowing for critical analysis and of the relational dynamics we seek in a diverse country. Towards Liberation Project will explore “social justice” via personal and institutional lenses to analyze: power and privilege, discrimination and prejudice, inclusion, equity, and justice through the multiple social identities of race, gender, sexual orientation, class, nationality, ethnicity, ability (physical and mental), religion, etc.

Ally/Accomplice Training: How to Build Coalition

This workshop provides what it means to act as Allies to marginalized people/students in your school. Participants will learn ally and accomplice skills by practicing them in discussion groups: listening, amplifying voices, apologizing and correcting themselves, and more. The workshop ends with each participant understanding why allyship has limits and why being accomplice is more effective approach to helping marginalized populations.

Undoing Racism

‍Participants of this workshop will discuss each other’s perspectives and try to understand, challenge, and learn from each other’s position by asking engaging questions. Participants to discover the conscious and unconscious ways in which racism permeates our attitudes, behaviors and affects our relationships with each other.

Undoing Ableism

‍Ableism is the systematic privileging of bodies and minds that are seen as “normal” or able. It’s also the discrimination or prejudice based on the belief that persons with disabilities need to be “fixed” or cannot function as full members of society.

Undoing Sexism

‍Sexism is a system that privileges one gender over another, creating gender inequality and restrictive gender identity expectations. These systems then become naturalized, self-maintaining, and self-reinforced.

Undoing Classism‍

Classism is the prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class. In this workshop, facilitators will discuss classist myths in America and encourage discussion between attendees regarding class and social structures and what these things mean to each of us.