Racial Dialogue Training Institute

Facilitating sensitive and nuanced conversations around race is part art and part science. A competent facilitator must understand the foundational principles of communication, psychology, and human behavior.

Moreover, the facilitator must facilitate with their ears, heart, and mind. This multiday curriculum will equip experienced facilitators in deepening their skill sets to address what can be an uncomfortable topic: race. Additionally, participants will gain techniques useful in training others to improve the ways in which they show up in conversations about and across race.

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Build confidence to facilitate sensitive and racially nuanced conversations
• Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal skills during sensitive conversations
• Learn strategies to create a psychologically safe and welcoming environment for participants to engage in sensitive race-related topics
• Develop a deeper awareness of how unconscious bias impacts personal interactions in the facilitation process
• Learn how to facilitate sensitive and racially nuanced conversations with your ears, mind, and heart
• Facilitate mock conversations
• Develop strategies to address the three main fears of group facilitation
• Demonstrate understanding of the SCCCCALE Framework during practice facilitation sessions