2024 Anti-Racism Training Schedule
All anti-racism trainings are from 9 am to noon on Zoom.
Fee: $20. Scholarships are available, especially for postulants and
candidates for ordination. Email [email protected].
The Anti-Racism Commission's anti-racism training series is facilitated by Lailah Dunbar-Keeys and designed to help participants understand the historic creation, preservation, and personal and institutional effects of a society built upon ideas of racial difference, which in turn support an unjust, racially based hierarchy. The series repeats annually, and offers the Introduction to Systemic Racism training 3 times a year.
Anti-racism trainings are mandatory for clergy and open to all. Completion of all 5 trainings over 2 years meets the initial clergy requirement for anti-racism education. Email [email protected] to obtain a certificate of completion.
September 28, 2024
Racism and Identity
This training explores the ways in which systemic racism informs our personal identity, behaviors and outcomes. We will develop a sociological understanding of the concepts colorblindness, colorism, cultural appropriation, unconscious bias, micro-aggressions, White fragility, and White privilege.
October 26, 2024
Racism and Active Accountability
This training will challenge us to think about the ways in which we can be actively accountable for identifying, resisting, and responding to the racism that shows up in our lives and the institutions in which we participate. We will explore various ways to act, resist and transform systemic racism to create anti-racist environments.
Anti-Racism Training Facilitator
Lailah Dunbar-Keeys, M.S. M.Ed.
Lailah Dunbar-Keeys is an educator, author, and spiritual life coach who integrates social science and spirituality to affect transformational change. She has taught sociology and African American Studies at the college level for over eighteen years at Temple University and the Community College of Philadelphia. She was also part of the team of educators who wrote the mandatory African American Studies curriculum for the School District of Philadelphia. To learn more, contact Lailah Dunbar-Keeys ([email protected], 215-219-3509) or visit www.lailahdunbarkeeys.com.