Outcomes and Learning Areas
Outcomes and Learning Areas
<p><a href="documents/Departments/RSJI/Shape-of-Trust/Report/Shape-of-Trust-Report-January-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Building Capacity for Transformational, Anti-Racist Organizing within Government: An Analysis of Two Novel Learning Experiences </a></p>
<p>Click the link above to read a report on The Shape of Trust community of practice and the Key Leaders anti-racist training program. Outcomes were evaluated using transformational assessment tools designed by Gia Naranjo-Rivera, with additional consultation from <a href="https://www.raceforward.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race Forward</a>.</p>
<h2>Outcomes</h2>
<p>Participants in The Shape of Trust will:</p>
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<li>Root anti-racism work in the undeniable reality of our interdependence, collective health, creativity, and drive to belong.</li>
<li>Center transformational anti-racism in their work as a regular <em>practice</em> and as a <em>way of being</em>.</li>
<li>Lead holistically, emphasizing a connection to mind, body, spirit, creativity, culture, and community.</li>
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<h2>Learning Areas</h2>
<p>The Shape of Trust builds meaning and skills across five essential and interwoven components of racial equity, social justice, and belonging.</p>
<p><strong>Self & Society</strong></p>
<p>Social targets and agents; power; internalized, interpersonal, institutional, and structural oppression; understanding the whole and acknowledging one's position within the whole.</p>
<p><strong>Creativity & Interconnection</strong></p>
<p>Arts and culture; creative processes and facilitation; centering practices; relationships to spirit, land, and ecosystems; maintaining connection through conflict.</p>
<p><strong>Wellbeing</strong></p>
<p>Personal and collective trauma; resilience and care; mind-body-spirit connection.<br /><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Institutions & System</strong></p>
<p>Living systems; the web of interconnection and wellbeing; the web of structural racism and oppression; relational culture; white supremacy culture; racial and organizational hierarchies; history and policy.<br /><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Advocacy & Action</strong></p>
<p>Transformational, antiracist organizing within institutions; our different roles as agents and targets of oppression; countering resistance; sharing struggle and vision; calling each other in and forward; moving together as social targets and agents; purpose and use of racial caucusing.</p>