tHe dR pRocess

The Dismantling Racism process is designed to help leaders and organizations who want to proactively understand and address racism, both in their organization and in the community where the organization is working. The Dismantling Racism process is just that: an 18-month to two-year process.

Our experience is that the goals of understanding and addressing racism can rarely be achieved in a 3-hour or one-day workshop. Racism is a fierce, ever-present, challenging force, one which has structured the thinking, behavior, and actions of individuals and institutions since the beginning of U.S. history. To understand racism and effectively begin dismantling it requires an equally fierce, consistent, and committed effort. Our approach to helping groups deal with issues of racial inclusion and diversity involves:

• an organizational assessment phase to help everyone
  understand the attitudes and feelings about racism that
  exist throughout your organization;
• Dismantling Racism Workshop(s) which offer an analysis of
  racism and support your organization in adopting a common
  understanding of the problem;
• an analysis of the organization's stage of development in
  becoming an anti-racist organization;
• development of a plan for change, which will include specific
  and meaningful goals as well as an action plan to reach
  those goals;
• ongoing reflection designed to both evaluate the group's
  progress and document lessons learned as the organization
  moves through the process;
• periodic check-ins to insure that your organization is  
  receiving the support you need to be successful in reaching
  your goals.

For a fuller description of the process, go to more about the dR process.

For information about our travel policies, go here.

For information about preparing the space for this process, go here.