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Workshop 3C: Organizational Cultural Competency
This free workshop is sponsored by the Seattle/King County Gang Prevention & Outreach Work Group.
Description:
This highly interactive workshop is designed to introduce tools and concepts to support community-based organizations who desire to provide services in a culture of justice. This workshop focuses on learning activities and tools to support enhancing cultural competency individually, interpersonally and organizationally.
Participants will: (1) Examine their own understanding and experiences with cultural competency and oppression; (2) Become facile at shifting the context when racism or other oppression is operative, and (3) Envision what a culture of justice would be like in their organization.
About the Instructor(s):
Ms. Benita Horn is a consultant, facilitator, coach and trainer specializing in social justice and building capacity in organizations and communities in the United States and in Africa. Ms. Horn has been an advocate and activist for social change for more than three decades both personally and professionally. She co-developed a cultural competency assessment process for community-based organizations serving youth placed at risk and worked with 14 agencies in King County to assist them in assessing their agencies and embedding and sustaining policies of equity and fairness to guide delivery of services. For almost two years, Ms. Horn served as interim director of the Anti-Racism Training Institute Northwest (ARTINW). This non-profit institute was one of four national sites created to provide training and technical support in their respective communities to assist in undoing institutional racism. Ms. Horn is a board member of the Washington Health Foundation and First Place School. She serves as a member of the Human Resources committee for the Greater Seattle YMCA and the Cultural Competency committee for Senior Services. Since 2000, Ms. Horn has been a member of the Vision and Planning Team for annual Cultural Reconnection Delegations. These are two-week intensives designed to build relationships among women with a shared ancestry and homeland.
Ms. Margo Adair has dedicated the last 30 years to unraveling how it is that people duplicate relations of domination despite their best intentions. Her facilitation, mediation and training are always conducted with an eye on how power plays out, along with an understanding of the centrality of racism and the intersections of class, gender and age. She is co-author of two pamphlets: The Subjective Side of Politics and Breaking Old Patterns Weaving New Ties: Alliance Building, which have been used in hundreds of settings to foster multicultural collaboration. These have become the basis of a nationwide campus movement called Inter-Group Dialogs. Sections of these pamphlets continue to be used by consultants and trainers throughout the country. The pieces that are best known are: Behavioral Patterns that Perpetuate Relations of Domination, To Equalize Power Among Us, and The Dynamics of Tokenism. Adair has a depth of experience addressing racism, alliance building and exploring, and the interlocking nature of systemic oppression. She founded Tools for Change in 1985 to promote healing and leadership development, and to create sustainable democratic structures in which everyone can contribute their best. TfC calls on heart, history, collectivity and vision. They offer long-term consultation, facilitation, and training on power, diversity and vision-building.
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Location2100 Building
2100 24th Avenue, Art Room
Seattle, WA 98144
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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