This introductory adult-led workshop is designed to set the groundwork for the remaining youth-led workshop content.

Objectives: Introduce workshop structure and purpose • Define collective expectations • Build supportive environment • Cultivate growth mindset 

This workshop explores how power and privilege can exist within multiple identities. 

Objectives: Define power and privilege • Identify social identities • Examine systems of oppression • Promote self-reflection

This workshop explores how implicit bias is a direct impact of cognitive, social and environmental factors.

Objectives: Examine cognitive processes • Analyze social influences • Encourage open-dialogue • Practice empathy 

This workshop allows participants to dissect the layers of their identity through self-analysis. 

Objectives: Encourage self-reflection • Identify intersectionality • Understand the impact of experiences • Acknowledge privilege and bias

This workshop provides participants with the language pertinent to understanding sexual orientation, gender identity and expression. 

Objectives: Build awareness • Challenge stereotypes • Promote inclusivity • Facilitate open dialogue • Encourage continuous learning

This workshop is designed to enhance participants’ cultural awareness by exploring how day to day interactions, even the subtle and unintentional, can be perceived as insensitive or insulting. 

Objectives: Identify microaggressions • Cultivate self-awareness • Understand impact • Encourage accountability • Strategize for intervention

This workshop creates a space for dialogue as participants unpack the historical context of race and racism. 

Objectives: Historical understanding • Explore systemic racism • Promote empathy • Challenge stereotypes • Cultivate allyship

This workshop delves into exploring power dynamics between adults and youth in the classroom and community. 

Objectives: Understand power dynamics • Examine biases • Promote active listening • Encourage youth empowerment

This workshop provides an overview of why the “bystander effect” can occur, and offers practical steps and strategies to empower individuals to safely step in and be an ally. 

Objectives: Understand social psychological concepts  • Examine individual and group behavior dynamics  • Encourage and empower individuals with safe actions 

This workshop focuses on establishing future strategies of action for addressing inequities on a systemic level in our schools and communities. 

Objectives: Analyze current inequities • Understand root causes • Create action plans and sustainable practices • Develop a shared vision

This workshop explores the dynamics of representation, choice, and interest when it comes to assigned reading within a school’s curriculum. 

Objectives: Understand the challenges uninterested readers face • Examine biases in text • Reenvision structures • Encourage youth empowerment • Provide shared resources 

This workshop explores the challenges that can be present when engaging in media that uses insensitive language or slurs in the classroom. 

Objectives: Explore how language can harm • Examine biases in text • Create spaces to learn about language • Plan for conflict around text

This virtual workshop examines the need for personal accountability and provides strategies for reconciling harm done within a community.

Objectives: Explore the ways in which individual accountability impacts systemic oppression • Identify global communities who have used acknowledgment, transparency, and active healing to foster cultures of accountability • Discuss barriers and strategies to repair harm done within a community

This workshop invites participants to explore and celebrate the concept of Black joy, emphasizing the importance of authentic expression and creativity in countering stereotypes. Through engaging activities and discussions, participants will dive into the richness of Black culture and the power of joy as a form of resistance.

Objectives: Expose Stereotypes • Celebrate Authenticity• Foster Community• Promote Healing

This workshop delves into the history of elections in the United States, focusing on the policies, strategies, and violence used to keep marginalized groups out of the voting booth. 

Objectives: Learn about historic voting policies and practices • Understand modern-day disenfranchisement tactics • Brainstorm support strategies for voting rights in your community