SJTI - Schedule and Objectives

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

3:00-6:00 p.m. Hotel Registration
4:00-5:45 p.m. Optional dinner--meet others in hotel lobby
5:30-6:00 p.m. Institute Registration
6:00-10:00 p.m. Opening Session (ice cream bar afterwards)

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

8:30 a.m.-noon Session 1
Noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own
1:30-6:00 p.m. Session 2
6:00 p.m. Dinner on your own (groups often gather to go to dinner together)

Thursday, December 11, 2008

8:30 a.m.-noon Session 3
Noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30-6:00 p.m. Session 4
6:00 p.m. Dinner on your own

Friday, December 12, 2008

8:30 a.m.-noon Session 5
Noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30-6:00 p.m. Session 6
7:00 p.m. Group Dinner (optional attendance)

Saturday, December 13, 2008

8:00-12:00 p.m. Closing session
12:30 p.m. Hotel check-out

The Social Justice Training Institute:
A Trainer and Practitioner Development
Program Focusing on Race and Racism

Institute Goal

To provide diversity trainers and practitioners with an intensive laboratory experience where they can focus on their own learning and development to increase their multicultural competencies as social justice educators.

Seminar Objectives

To deepen understanding of the dynamics of oppression at the individual, group, cultural, and systems levels through the lens of race and racism.
To explore dominant and subordinated group dynamics within the system of racism.
To broaden understanding of the breadth and depth of institutionalized racism.
To examine the impact of racism on ourselves as trainers, as diversity practitioners, and on participants.
To explore how to manage ourselves during “triggering” events:
- identify our personal triggers and hot buttons
- explore the factors and “roots” which fuel our triggered reactions
- learn and practice strategies to manage our own triggered reactions
To encourage the application of learnings from this experience to other areas of oppression.

Schedule for SJTI 2008: Tucson, AZ A Trainer and Practitioner Development on Race and Racism