Learning How to Talk about Whiteness
A 3-hour workshop for organizations and conferences
An easy introduction to the idea of "whiteness." This workshop combines experiential exercises and presentation of scholarly findings. Participants are given opportunity to discuss their views of whiteness, and to discover what various experts and scholars are saying about it.
The workshop is facilitated by a multiracial team of trainers and is appropriate for mixed-race groups. While the workshop is of particular value to white people who need to function effectively in multiracial settings, it is also of interest to persons of color who wish to discuss whiteness in a mixed-race group.
In the words of former workshop participants, Learning How to Talk about Whiteness is...
- Very worthwhile, sensitively handled, thought provoking.
- Excellent.
- Got me thinking.
- Very interesting and well presented considering the difficulties of the topic.
- Very good and very different from the other lectures or workshops...
- This workshop was stimulating, educational and safe, a difficult quality to achieve with this work.
- Great! We need more like this.
- Great handouts and written materials that I will definitely use as a resource for understanding myself. I'm happy to see an organization devoted to this experience. It's so incredibly important.
- All the speakers were wonderful.
For information on this workshop, contact the Center for the Study of White American Culture:
Along with our introductory workshop, we provide custom training and consulting services to organizations that want to incorporate a knowledge of whiteness into their efforts to create multiracial settings. We also work with established diversity practitioners who want to include a component on whiteness in their program and workshop offerings.
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