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Coming to collective agreement about how we want to be in a space together can be a small but foundational step toward disrupting power imbalance with groups. A good community agreement is a tool that provides a container for collective decision making, cooperation and collaboration, accountability, both/and thinking, and shared power - all core tenants of anti-racist values. In this facilitated conversation using the National Equity Projects' Lens of Systemic Oppression as a frame, we will discover together how to develop an effective agreement. Like the strands of a cord, these elements hold communities/teams together and gives strength.

In this workshop, participants will gain a common definition of the internalization of racist oppression and the internalization of racist superiority. They will examine the identity-shaping power racism has on People of Color and White people while also exploring racism’s individual, institutional, and cultural manifestations. This workshop is designed to help participants cultivate the capacity to be self-reflective about our cultural shaping as individuals and institutions; develop interventions to disrupt problematic patterns that negatively impact ourselves and our community; develop skills to interrupt inequitable practices that limit access and exclude some people; and build trust and strengthen cross-racial relationships within our institutions.