Child Protective Services and Community Training

Training Of CPS and Community Member Facilitators

This weekend workshop will include an intensive immersion in IGD and teach facilitators the critical factors for successful implementation, completion, sustainability, and transference of Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) between CPS and community. IGD specialists Vivian Jenkins Nelsen, Dr. Nancy Rodenborg of Augsburg University will lead the training. Participation in this weekend is required, since facilitators must have gone through an IGD process themselves in order to be effective group leaders. The weekend will include an overview of IGD theory and the stages of dialogue, video, interactive experiences, and a brief summary of evaluation and assessment methods.

This weekend will also focus on facilitation training, including facilitation methods, small group theory, shared leadership, conflict management, and experiential learning utilizing case studies. Participants will learn about social identities, bridging differences, implicit bias and catalyzing change. Facilitators will be paired with their partners and begin planning their groups.

Schedule

The training will be offered:

17 November	6 to 9 pm	Dinner served
18 November	8:30 to 4:30 pm	Breakfast, lunch, snacks served
19 November	1:30 to 5:00 pm	Lunch served

Agenda

17 November	Introductions, Overview of training, About IGD, Activity
18 November	Facilitation, Research, Stages, Dialogue, Activities
19 November	Facilitation, Dialogue, Activities, Co-Leaders Meet&Plan

Note: More detail will be added, and the agenda is subject to change.

Handouts

• Debate.Discussion.Dialogue
• Dialogue Overview
• Dialogue Principles
• Difficult Conversations
• Facilitator Reminders
• Facilitator Role and Function
• Ground Rules
• Small Group Roles
• Top Ten Facilitator Qualifications
• Building Blocks of Dialogue
• IGD Training Slides
• Action Continuum Model
• Appreciation
• Is it Me poem
• Our Lenses
• Social Identity Groups
• Social Identity Profile
• Social Identity Wheel
• Strength Bombardment
• Ground Rules for 4 Corners
• 4 Corners Questions
• Brave Spaces
• Blank CIQ sheet
• Haro Cycle of Liberation
• Social Contact Powerpoint
• IGD Training Powerpoint . Mini Social Contact Survey
• Social Contact Survey Handout

Resources Mentioned During The Workshop

• CNN video report on police shootings leading to tough talks about being black
• Van Jones video “cops, blacks both feel targeted”
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie TED talk on the “danger of a single story”
• Brene Brown TED talk on shame and her TED talk on vulnerability
• InsightNews
• Beverly Tatum
• Racism definitions
• Out of the Shadows exhibit at the University of MN
• Poverty & Race Research Action Council
• The Race Card Project
• Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey “How the way we talk can change the way we work”
• Stephen Brookfield’s work on learning through discussion

Resources From The Educators

• Nancy Rodenborg bio and her essay on the pedagogy of intergroup dialogue
• Vivian Jenkins Nelsen bio and her powerpoint on conflict
• and her powerpoint on cross cultural communication

Websites

• Healing MN Stories
• Racial equity tools
• Race: The Power of an Illusion
• Teaching Tolerance
• Storytelling for Social Justice
• Nat’l Ctr. for Cultural Competence
• Defining white privilege
• YWCA racial justice project
• Multicultural pavilion

Demographic Sites For The Twin Cities

• Minneapolis/St. Paul neighborhood data
• Wilder Fdn. Research
• St. Paul Facing Race (St. Paul Fdn.)
• MN School Integration Task Force Report

Films That Are Useful

• The Color of Fear
• Race: The Power of an Illusion
• Traces of the Trade
• Unfinished Business
• Making Whiteness Visible

Books

• A Good Time for the Truth
• Between the World and Me
• We Were Eight Years in Power
• What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy

Articles

• “White fragility” by Robin DiAngelo