Available Fall 2020
(Dates are pending)
The Transforming White Privilege experience is designed to help participants identify, explore and address white privilege and its consequences. This four-week, online opportunity hosted by the Catholic Parishes in Waterloo is open to the public.
Enrollment is limited and pre-registration is required. The suggested registration fee is $25 per person, $40 for two, payable after the first session. (See our fee policy here.)
Participants must have the ability to download and print material for the program.
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The Transforming White Privilege experience was developed by The Center for Assessment and Policy Development, MP Associates, and World Trust Educational Services, funded by The W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
The program incorporates a variety of key concepts, tools and strategies for change. For example, the discussion helps participants explore
• common cultural assumptions about what is considered normal, appropriate, desirable or valid in
American society, and how such norms which are codified in customs, laws, institutions, policies, and
practices;
• common culture norms which advantage some groups and disadvantage others by reinforcing
stereotypes, limiting fair access, and prescribing who belongs inside and who remains outside circles of
human concern;
• the history, current policies and social practices which maintain these common assumptions and
norms.
The opprtunity to explore these ideas can help participants develop the capacity to identify, talk constructively about, and act to address white culture, white privilege and their consequences in the personal and social individual's spheres of influence.
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Individuals who participate in Transforming White Privilege workshop will:
• better understand how white privilege operates and is maintained within a system of inequity;
• learn how “whiteness” itself was created;
• and discover ways in which specific history, culture, laws and policies, economics and power helped to
create and maintain a set of accumulated advantages for groups labeled “white” and a set of
accumulating disadvantages for groups not considered “white” at various points in U.S. history
This workshop will be facilitated by two local professionals who have been trained to conduct the Transforming White Privilege seminar:
Reginald Green lives in Cedar Falls and is a member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church. He is currently working to undo racism through an organization he founded, Hidden Heritage, a virtual museum, and is actively involved in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Northeast Iowa Synod's Racial Justice Network and the Synod's Transforming White Privilege leadership training program. He is an experienced workshop facilitator and educator whose professional career consists of college and university students service, academic advising, standardized testing, and sociology instruction.
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[Last Update: 08.26.20]