The UNtraining: Untraining White Liberal Racism

	Do you wonder how you, as a white person, contribute to maintaining a white-dominated world?

The mission of The UNtraining is to provide resources and tools for white people who are motivated to investigate their white cultural conditioning.


	___________________________________________________ New UNtraining Phase 1 Starts October 12! More info __________________________________________________ Upcoming Anti-Racism Events Films, Performances, Conferences We Were There! Ninth Annual White Privilege Conference and White Anti-Racist Summit Springfield, MA, April 2008 UNtraining folks and friends at WPC9 ____________________________________________________ What is the UNtraining? The UNtraining is a provocative and compassionate approach to helping white people become better allies in the fight for social justice. It is a forum for exploring what it means to be white, and how this affects ourselves and our relationships with people of color. By focusing on the training we inherit from our white-dominated culture, we are able to better understand the world around us and we are empowered to create change in ourselves and our communities. We do not come together to judge, instill guilt or exonerate ourselves for the effects of racism. We seek to understand ourselves and our world in order to be more effective and compassionate individuals. In doing so, we may become strong allies to everyone working to raise awareness about racism and create social change. read more The UNtraining in the News SF State [X]Press Magazine article by Arya Hebbar Special issue on Racism, November 2007 "Doing the White Thing," article by Swan Keyes, published in Turning Wheel magazine, Spring 2007 "Mental Health Without Bias" reports on workshop by Nancy Arvold, from Inside Bay Area by Suzanne Bohan, Nov. 11, 2006 Participants comment about the UNtraining "I learned to be more real and to experience and manage many different feelings and reactions simultaneously. I am much more able to stand in your shoes, whoever you are, because I learned to stand in my own." "I now know how much my freedom and the freedom of people of color are inextricably intertwined." "...essential personal work that has enabled me to facilitate conversations around racism and stereotyping with my students." "The UNtraining is nonjudgmental and non-shaming. It is safe and powerful." "This feels like important and essential work for European Americans if we are to move beyond the insidious effects of racism." more comments
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