Aspiring Ally Development Workshop Series
• – • Your Home or Office
About the speaker
This virtual workshop series, led by Keith Edwards, is designed to help those who aspire to be allies for social justice learn, reflect, develop themselves, and move toward action to be more consistent, effective, and sustainable aspiring allies for social justice. The focus here is on how we work toward justice from places of systemic privilege such as white folks working for racial justice, men working toward gender justice, and middle and upper-class folks working for class justice.
Workshop 1: Foundations of Social Justice
- Foundations of Social Justice
- Social Group Identities
- Socialization
- Implicit Biases
- Communicating Across Difference
- Systems of Oppression
Workshop 2: Aspiring Ally Identity Development
- Allyship is a behavior not an identity
- Aspiring Ally for Self-Interest
- Aspiring Ally for Altruism
- Ally for Social Justice
- Exploring complicity, defensiveness, and enlightened self-interest
Workshop 3: Deepening the Learning
- Unlearning
- Obstacles for Aspiring Allies
- Tools for Aspiring Allies
Workshop 4: Committing to Action
- Exploring Actions for Social Justice
- Making Commitments
- Accountability
- Celebrations
Local partners
Austin Justice Coalition is a racial justice group that educates and builds community power for people of color in Austin who need support, community, and liberation during a time of systemic injustice in America.
The African American Youth Harvest Foundation seeks to help families with the conditions needed to nurture the on-time or accelerated development of children and youth who would otherwise experience disproportionately-adverse life conditions.
E4 Youth uses the arts, sciences, and technology to help youth find and pursue careers in the creative economy through hands-on-training, active mentorship, and exposure to real world opportunities.
The Excellence & Advancement Foundation offers programming through “Break the Pipeline” that helps prevent at-risk children from entering the criminal justice system.
Additional details
This is a four part series. You must be willing and able to commit to attending all four consecutive sessions on Tuesday mornings from 8:00-9:00am, starting July 14. Click here for the Wednesday sessions registration page.
There is also a pay-from-the-heart donation for this series of $100. Donations will go directly to Austin-based antiracism charities, and if the cost is out of reach for you, but you are committed to the series, you may pay what you can. Please select the charity that best matches your interests and then click here to upload your receipt:
-The Excellence & Advancement Foundation offers programming through Break the Pipeline that helps prevent at-risk children from entering the criminal justice system.
-The African American Youth Harvest Foundation seeks to help families with the conditions needed to nurture the on-time or accelerated development of children and youth who would otherwise experience disproportionately-adverse life conditions.
-E4 Youth uses the arts, sciences, and technology to help youth find and pursue careers in the creative economy through hands-on-training, active mentorship, and exposure to real world opportunities.
-Austin Justice Coalition is a racial justice group that educates and builds community power for people of color in Austin who need support, community, and liberation during a time of systemic injustice in America.
When you make your donation, please take a quick screenshot of your receipt and submit it here. We will not share the details of your individual donation with anyone else, but will communicate the totals raised for each group.
Click here for other antiracism workshop opportunities in July.
Location
Hosted at
Your Home or Office
Streaming Online
Austin, Texas United States 78701
When
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