UNDOING RACISM COMMUNITY PLANNING MEETING
Your insights and experiences are invaluable to us. We hope you’ll consider joining this conversation to shape ARCO’s future and extend the reach of our mission. Whether you’re interested in simply joining the discussion or helping plan the next steps, your presence would make a difference.
DURING THIS MEETING, WE WILL DISCUSS:
- Potential Workshop Facilitators
- Workshop Venue
- Registration Timelines
- The Volunteer Experience and Roles Assignment
WHAT IS THIS WORKSHOP ABOUT?
Undoing Racism®/Community Organizing is the signature workshop facilitated by trainers from the People’s Institute of Survival and Beyond. Participants will experience a humanistic process for laying a foundation to explore how we have been racialized, socialized, and conditioned to think about race and racism.
We first analyze class, power, and institutional/individual relationships to and within communities. As power is analyzed, we will explore how people play a role in maintaining the current disparate racial outcomes that every system and institution produces.
This intensive, interactive process challenges participants to analyze themselves first, then the structures of power and privilege that hinder social equity, and prepares them to be effective organizers for justice.
HOW IS THIS WORKSHOP DIFFERENT?
The PISAB Undoing Racism Workshop developed by the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), is distinct from many traditional diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) trainings in several key ways:
- Focus on Systemic Change Over Individual Behavior
- Anti-Racism Framework, Not Just DEI
- Community-Centered Approach
- Explicit Challenge to “Colorblindness” and Charity Models
- Action-Oriented Focus
- Grounded in History and Accountability
- Intensive, Transformative Process
This emphasis on structural change, historical accountability, and community-centered action makes PISAB’s workshop unique among DEI initiatives, as it seeks to inspire participants to not only understand racism but actively work to dismantle it.
