From Where and When We Enter: A Facilitated Discussion Addressing Operational and Organizational Strategies for Change

This session addresses how to engage in organizational/operational change to work towards anti-racism, especially when racial conflict and/or denial of racism has taken place in a work environment. This session primarily focuses on conflict resolution and tools for organizational change. Practical tools, activities, learnings, and strategies for working through operational planning, organizational trauma, and implementation of anti-racism and anti-oppression work within the human services sector will be addressed.

LEARNING ACTIONS:

1. To identify ways in which racism and oppression operate in your work environment, and address conflict on a personal, client, staff-to-staff and organizational level;
2. To support the implementation of pathways or a blueprint for organizations to address racism and to support ongoing commitments to this work