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Facilitator’s Corner: How Superpowered Introductions Dismantle Problematic Power Dynamics
Many group events and activities open with some sort of welcome or warm-up exercise, providing participants with a chance to introduce themselves before addressing the topic at hand. Sometimes, introductions that focus solely on titles, roles, degrees, years of experience, professional affiliations, and so on, can create a power dynamic that results in some attendees feeling less willing to contribute during the meeting.
Here’s a simple alternative approach to facilitating introductions that enables greater human-first connection: a focus on superpowers.
Black Health Matters
The Community Health Association of Mississippi, in partnership with Dr. Robert Smith, an unsung hero and healthcare champion for minority populations for more than 50 years, launched the REPAAIR (Realizing Equity by Preparing Ambassadors to Address Institutional Racism) Initiative to tackle these issues head-on.Learn more about their innovative and inspiring efforts.
CHC Fight for Good During COVID
Watch “Fight for Good”, a documentary about both the miracle of the modern healthcare system and its enduring challenges with implicit bias and systemic racism, follows the heartfelt stories of an executive at the Community Health Center of Buffalo and two physicians, all women of color as they give voice to their common humanity, including deeply held and rarely spoken fears of personal vulnerability and loss.
🎥 Color blind or color brave – Mellody Hobson
🎥 The geography of inequality – Kevin Ehrman-Solberg
🎥 The problem with race-based medicine – Dorothy Roberts
🎥 How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time – Baratunde Thurston
📰 How to Be Less Stupid About Race – Crystal Marie Fleming
📰 The Urgency of Intersectionality Ted Talk – Kimberlé Crenshaw
📰 “The Unbearable Grief of Black Mothers” – A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez
📰 “George Floyd’s Mother was not there but he used her as a Sacred Invocation” – Lonnae O’Neal
📰 How to Be a Good American – Dana Brownlee
📰 CNN’s Omar Jimenez Could Have Been Me — Or Any of My Black Colleagues – Jada Gomez
📰 What We Should Have Learned From the L.A. Riots – Erik Parker
📰 How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change – Barack Obama
📰 Maintaining Professionalism in the Age of Black Death Is… A Lot – Shenequa Golding
📰 How White Women Can Use Their Privilege to End Racism – Tikia K. Hamilton, PhD
📰 My Dad Warned Me About the Myth of Racial Progress — He Was Right – Drew Costley
📰 We Won’t Let This Moment Be a Trend – Vanessa K. De Luca
📰 Office Allies Can’t Undo Yet Another Black Murder – The Only Black Guy In the Office
📰 There’s No Such Thing as a Pretty Protest – Tirhakah Love
📚 Me & White Supremacy – Layla Saad
📚 How to Be An Anti-Racist – Ibram X. Kendi
📚 So You Want to Talk About Race? – Ijeoma Oluo
📚 I’m Still Here – Austin Channing Brown
📚 Women, Race & Class – Angela Davis
📚 White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo
📚 Inner Work of Racial Justice – Rhonda Magee
📚 Racial Justice and Antiracism Book List – Des Moines Public Library
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