Facilitating Conversations on Race - Strategies for Leading Group Discourse, 2nd edition

Facilitating Conversations on Race will equip facilitators and organizational leaders with the necessary tools and strategies for dealing with stumbling blocks that often arise when people are brought together to talk about some of the most difficult issues facing our country today-racism, power, and privilege. Hollins and Govan share stories and strategies they have practiced in their more than forty years of combined experience facilitating, while reminding the reader the power of bringing your authentic self. This comprehensive guide begins with the personal work leaders need to do to build their confidence, identify their style, and recognize their triggers. From there readers will learn facilitation foundations, from structuring a workshop using best practices in adult learning, to skillfully interrupting someone, to asking questions that encourage deeper reflection. The book supports increasingly advanced skill development, including naming and addressing the dynamics of whiteness as it plays out in a meeting and utilizing multiple strategies for moving through tension.

Table des matières

Table of Contents
Preface
Where I'm From
Introduction
Chapter 1 Before You Do, Know Who
Know What the Organization Does
Facilitation in Your Own Workplace
Formal Assessments
Ascertain the Racial Diversity of Participants
Consider Prior Work
Understand Why Now
Assess Attitudes toward the Work
Systematize Accommodations
Chapter 2 Setting Yourself up for Success
Narrow Your Focus
Select Activities
Practice Presenting
Structure the Delivery of Content
Chapter 3 Planning and Pivoting
Open with a Land Acknowledgement
Review the Objectives for the Day
Guide Participants to Engage with one Another in New Ways
Modify Your Agenda in the Moment
Close the Workshop
Chapter 4 Getting Grounded
Foundational Beliefs
Name Your Fears
Identify Your Deepest Needs
Clarify Your Hopes and Why for Social Justice
Chapter 5 Your Race Matters
Common Challenges Facilitators of Color Face
Common Challenges White Facilitators Face
Chapter 6 Confidence and Credibility
Believe You Have Something of Value to Offer
Remember Everyone Started Somewhere
Welcome Your Mistakes
Avoid Approaching This Work as An Expert
Affirm Yourself
Establish Credibility
Chapter 7 Welcome! We've Been Waiting for You
Find the Right Location
Cultivate Community in Person
Cultivate the Virtual Community
Chapter 8 Building Relationships
Show Participants They Matter to You
Give of Yourself and Be Vulnerable at Times
Introduce Yourself in a Meaningful Way
Create Opportunities for Participant Introductions
Use Prompts and Polls
Chapter 9 Knowing Your Style and Working in Partnership
Assess Your Facilitation Style
Benefits of Co-Facilitation
Prepare with Your Partner
Step Up/Step Back: The Facilitation Two-Step
On-line Partnerships
Debrief with One Another
Chapter 10 Assessing Triggers
Assess Your Triggers
Connect With the Person Who Triggered You
Chapter 11 Addressing Triggers
Respond Rather than React
Apologize
Use Anchors
When a PoC Has a Trauma Response
When Someone Responds Negatively to Something YOU Said
Chapter 12 Foundations for Effective Content Delivery and Group Management
Give Participants Time to Process
Limit Questions That Seek "Correct" Answers
Balance Humor with the Seriousness of the Topic
Bring Everyone Back Together
Chapter 13 Engaging Resistance
Understand Issues Underlying Resistance
The Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How Approach
Operating Principles to Guide You
Chapter 14 When You Disagree
Engage them Directly
Invite Others In
Avoid Power Struggles
Chapter 15 Asking Questions with Genuine Curiosity
Use Questions and Paraphrasing to Clarify
Deepen Understanding through Questions
Shift Mindsets
Chapter 16 Facilitation Essentials for Group Discourse
Engage with Silence
Engage Participants Who Have Not Spoken
Understand Why People Dominate the Conversation
Get Participants Back on Track
Chapter 17 Countering Expressions of White Privilege
Reframing or Invalidating Experiences of People of Color
White Fragility
The Idea That Logic, Reasoning, and Linear Thinking Do Not Involve Emotion
Valuing the Product over the Process
Being Agenda-Bound
Whites Distancing Themselves from Other Whites
Either/Or Thinking
Chapter 18 Persisting When the Unexpected Happens
Name and Talk about Nonverbal Communication
Notice the Way Participants are Treating One Another
How to Respond When you Don't Know What to Say
Respond to What Isn't Being Said
When a Participant of Color Is Resistant
Chapter 19 Diving into the Tension
After an Offensive Comment was Pointed out to You
Point Out What's Happening
Get Permission from the Participant who Made the Comment
Minimize the Enemy Image
Normalize What's Happening
Invite Other Participants into the Conversation
Encourage Hard Conversations
Circle Back to the Person who Made the Comment
Expect and Accept Non-closure
Thank Everyone
Appendix A
Checklist of What to Bring
Appendix B
Norms for Courageous Conversations
Experience Discomfort
Stay Engaged
Listen for Understanding
No Fixing
Take Risks
Speak Your Truth
Expect and Accept Nonclosure
Appendix C
Sample Agenda
Appendix D
Workshop Evaluation
Appendix E
Definitions
Bibliography

A propos de l'auteur

Caprice D. Hollins and Ilsa Marie Govan

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Ilsa Govan, Govan Ilsa, Caprice Hollins, Hollins Caprice
• Edition: Bloomsbury Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 23.07.2026
• EAN: 9798216379379
• ISBN: 9798216379379
• Pages: 320
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Pédagogie > Enseignement; EDUCATION / Leadership, Teaching skills and techniques, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching skills & techniques, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies