Mayor LaChapelle would like to invite you to our third Undoing Racism 3-day workshop hosted by the People's Institute for City employees and community members.
The Undoing Racism Workshop: Is roughly 6 hours per day over the course of 3 days; participants will experience a humanistic process for laying a foundation to explore how we have been socialized and conditioned to think about race and racism by first analyzing class, power, and institutional/individual relationships to and within communities. As power is analyzed, concepts will be introduced that play a role in maintaining the current disparate racial outcomes that every system and institution produces.
The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond was formed in 1980 by Dr. Jim Dunn and Ron Chisom, who worked to establish a training institute that provides not only community organizing skills but an analysis, principles, and values that make these skills useful. The multiracial team of organizers/trainers includes more than 40 men and women whose anti-racist organizing expertise includes years with civil, labor, and welfare rights struggles, educational, foster care, social services, and health reform movements, as well as youth and grassroots community organizing. They have trained thousands of people across the world.
The workshop will be on:
Friday, September 16, 2022 (4:00 pm - 8:00 pm, with dinner provided)
Saturday, September 17, 2022 (10:00 am - 5:00 pm, with snacks and lunch provided)
Sunday, September 18, 2022 (10:00 am - 5:00 pm, with snacks and lunch provided)
Registration deadline: Friday, September 9, 2022 at 5:00 pm
Please note that registration is on a first-come-first-serve basis as we only have 35 seats available
To register, click here!
PISAB Overview
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation. The People’s Institute believes that racism is the primary barrier preventing communities from building effective coalitions and overcoming institutionalized oppression and inequities. Over the last 40 years, PISAB has provided training, consultation, and leadership development to more than 200,000,000 people nationally and internationally. Through Undoing Racism®/Community Organizing Workshops, technical assistance and consultations, The People’s Institute helps individuals, communities, organizations and institutions move beyond addressing the symptoms of racism to undoing the root causes of racism so as to create a more just and equitable society.
Workshop Summary
Undoing Racism is PISAB's signature workshop. Through dialogue, reflection, role-playing, strategic planning and presentations, this intensive process challenges participants to analyze the structures of power and privilege that hinder social equity and prepares them to be effective organizers for justice. PISAB's multiracial team of organizers/trainers includes more than 40 people whose anti-racist organizing expertise includes years with civil, labor and welfare rights struggles, educational, foster care, social service and health reform movements, as well as youth and grassroots community organizing. The People’s Institute averages 30-35 Undoing Racism®/Community Organizing workshops per month.