Taking inspiration from YWCA’s Racial Justice Summit and offering this curriculum to my Cooperative, thiswork shop will reference Tekum Okun’s white supremacy culture document.
We will look into various habits and characteristic our culture has developed to honor certain types of work and dishonor others. We will be taking a deeper look into:
- Perfectionism
- Sense of Urgency
- Defensiveness
- Quantity over Quality
- Worship of the Written Word, Either/Or thinking
- Only One Right Way
- Paternalism
- Power Hoarding
- Fear of Open Conflict
- Individualism
- “I’m the Only One” thinking
- Progress is bigger/more
- Objectivity
- Right to Comfort
We will look into how these behaviors lead to oppressive organizational development and implementation, and learn about antidotes to these inherited behaviors.
BIO:
Che is part of the Anti-oppression Team and EDI Coordinator for the Olympia Food Co-op. Through Raising the Bar, they have developed various workshops to adapt and transform our knowledge on various subjects having to do with power, privilege, bias, and oppression.
Che was a presenter at Provender Alliance 2018, with their workshop regarding Transgender Awareness in Industry. Che has a BA in Education and Community Development from The Evergreen State College. They are available for private consultations, workshops, group facilitation, and organizational visioning. In Che’s free time they enjoy kayaking and performing in their Portland-based band: Turnback Boyz.