Race and Grace Workshop

This is a web page of resources that augmented a training held to support intergroup dialogue facilitation at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, MN.

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
• Social Contact Slide Presentation
• Social Contact Survey
• Social Contact Survey Instructions
• IGD Training Slides
• Action Continuum Model
• Antiracism Book List
• 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
• PrayerSlides
• Brave Spaces
• Blank CIQ sheet
• Benediction (Sr. Ruth)
• Benediction (Miller)
• Benediction (NZ)
• Haro Cycle of Liberation
• Beliefs and Behaviors

Resources Mentioned During the Workshop

• Facing Racism (PCUSA anti-racism study guides)
• Facing Racism policy approved in 2016
• Living Water, Living Stories (by Bebe Baldwin)
• Article from the May 2017 Oprah Magazine
• 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 talkon 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
• Sr. Ruth Fox Benediction
• 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 on the pedagogy of intergroup dialogue
• Vivian Jenkins Nelsen and her powerpoint on conflict
• and her powerpoint on cross cultural communication
• Vivian Jenkins Nelsen on “MN nice”
• Mary Hess
• Rev. Matt Johnson
• Ruby Brown

Websites

• Healing MN Stories
• Racial equity tools
• Race: The Power of an Illusion
• Teaching Tolerance
• Storytelling for Social Justice
• Sacred Conversation on Race (includes a really excellent resource guide for free download)
• Nat’l Ctr. for Cultural Competence
• Defining white privilege
• YWCA racial justice project
• Multicultural pavilion
• Racial Justice Collaboration in Theological Education
• Troubling the Waters: ELCA curriculum for white congregations
• Boston Review’s essential readings on white supremacy
• Racial justice principles for nonprofits

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
• A Time for Burning
• 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
• The Cross and the Lynching Tree
• The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race
• What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy

Articles

• “White fragility” by Robin DiAngelo
• “White religious educators resisting white fragility: Lessons from mystics” by Mary E. Hess