Duration: Half Day

Cost: Contact Workforce Development for pricing for department groups

Target Audience: City employees interested in developing their continued understanding of the effects of privilege/oppression from a structural to an individual perspective.

Instructors: Dan Esparza

Prerequisite: Managing Implicit Bias

Overview:

How will participants benefit?

  • Learn about the effects of structural inequities as they related to race, gender and other identities.
  • Understand how we can have advantages on systemic levels that create access for some and disadvantage others leading to oppression of those groups.
  • Create an understanding on how institutions, societies, and individuals can experience the world in different, advantaged, or disadvantaged ways.
  • Recognize individual privilege and the societal & institutional impacts.

Course Description:

Participants will participate in an interactive mix of learning and experiential character simulation, in which each person navigates the world through the eyes of someone who may experience privilege and/or oppression by making a series of life "decisions," while linking institutional and structural ways privilege/oppression can affect people individually.

What participants are saying:

For REAL change to happen, we need have enough people to be trained to create this awareness and to be able to implement change! THANK YOU FOR A GREAT SEMINAR!!!
Really engaging, and a nice way to show people how structural racism and conversely privilege can impact people's abilities to advance.
It was an amazing experience; it opened my mind to several points of view and that we all have a role to play in the effort to balance the scales of equity.

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations must be requested at least 10 days prior to the workshop. Individuals who do not cancel prior to the cancellation date will be charged the full amount of the program. In this case, you will have a one-time-only chance to reschedule within the same fiscal year, at no additional cost.

Upcoming Dates

Available by request for departmental groups