Groundwork Session for white bodies by Building Bridges

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White people*, it&#39;s time to do our own work around privilege and oppression.

Let&#39;s get honest with ourselves about our white privilege** and the role we play&nbsp;in working toward racial equity.&nbsp;

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GROUNDWORK is a one time&nbsp;online training.&nbsp; Groundwork uses the 4 I&#39;s of Oppression framework to dig into the ways in which our own racial privilege operates in the&nbsp;world.&nbsp;All registered participants will be assigned pre-work&nbsp;to deepen the learning that takes place at&nbsp;the BB Groundwork session. The expectation is that all participants will complete pre-work before attending BB Groundwork.&nbsp;This session is 3 hours long and takes place from 4:00 - 7:00pm or&nbsp;10:00am - 1:00pm&nbsp;in MST on the dates listed.&nbsp;&nbsp;These occur as one-time sessions that repeat the same curriculum each session.&nbsp;

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Our Groundwork sessions are a great starting place for folks new to Building Bridges and invested in deepening their journey of inclusion and equity.&nbsp;Groundwork sessions&nbsp;also are required as a prerequisite&nbsp;for our cohort-based trainings Uprooted and Taproot.

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This online training session&nbsp;is NOT A WEBINAR FOR PASSIVE PARTICIPATION. Instead, it requires all participants to be ready to fully lean into a time of learning and dialogue. Because of the nature of the dialogue, this session will not be recorded for public use&nbsp;or re-watching after the session. Please only register if you are able to be fully present at the session. Come to the session ready to engage with all exercises and dialogues.&nbsp;Each session will be three hours long and happen via Zoom (Colorado - Mountain Time).&nbsp;&nbsp;This is facilitated by a white bodied&nbsp;team, and will have a maximum capacity of 20 participants.&nbsp;

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The session will include:

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	<li>Explain&nbsp;of the 4 I&#39;s framework with real-life examples around white privilege, allyship, and anti-racism from two white co-facilitators</li>
	<li>Guide real-time practice and reflection around the 4 I&#39;s and how they relate to racial equity</li>
	<li>Facilitate group dialogue and reflection around the 4 I&#39;s, racial equity, and how to deepen&nbsp;a practice of&nbsp;diversity,&nbsp;equity and inclusion in your personal and professional context</li>
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Registration for this one time, 3 hr session is $150.&nbsp;Ideally, we ask that you or your organization cover this fee, as a financial investment towards advancing racial equity.&nbsp;Note that these are prices for individual community members to join.&nbsp; Payment plans and&nbsp;<a draggable="false" href="https://forms.gle/nLrqKAK7zc4rdawT7" rel="noopener" target="_blank">scholarships</a>&nbsp;are available upon request.&nbsp; We do not turn anyone away. Please reach out.

If you are looking to sign up more than 5 people, or have your entire staff/organization attend, please contact us, as that would be a different price and depend on availability..&nbsp; If you are wanting us to work more in depth and for long term with your team, please fill out our <a draggable="false" href="https://forms.gle/d3wVAxjBSjzd47PN6" rel="noopener" target="_blank">interest form</a>.&nbsp; If you have&nbsp;concerns/questions, please reach out to training@buildingbridgesshift.org&nbsp;for discount or scholarship options.&nbsp;

Click<a href="https://buildingbridgesshift.org/cancellation-policy/"> here</a> for details on our cancellation policy.&nbsp; Each&nbsp;session will take place if at least 4 participants&nbsp;are in attendance. 
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A few additional notes:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIG1X1x74v5E0tVY-H8Tj_oXDKJZX9f4R" target="_blank">Group Norms &amp; Why racial affinity space</a>

<a href="https://buildingbridgesshift.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Definitions-Sheet.pdf">Definitions</a>

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIG1X1x74v5E0tVY-H8Tj_oXDKJZX9f4R" target="_blank">*WHY </a>JUST WHITE PEOPLE/folks/bodies?&nbsp;BB Groundwork Sessions&nbsp;occur in two, race-based affinity spaces (BIPOC and White) in order to ensure that racial equity is&nbsp;embedded in the learning environment. Other Building Bridges training and cohorts occur in multi-racial settings, once all participants receive groundwork training around racial equity.

**WHY FOCUS ON WHITE PRIVILEGE?&nbsp;Although Building Bridges aims to provide all trainings through a lens of intersectionality and anti-oppression, our organization&nbsp;centers&nbsp;racial equity. For this reason, we have made it a priority to provide foundational trainings that are focused on privilege and oppression from a racial equity standpoint. We acknowledge that all people hold many complex identities and other types of privileges exist (i.e. class, gender, citizenship status, ability, etc.) but we have chosen to center our BB Groundwork Session in racial equity because of the weight that racial identity holds in the U.S. context.

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