We offer a number of programs for people and organizations who may be at different stages of learning about racism and how to disrupt it.

​Programs for Individuals

Individuals are welcome to join any of our Public Sessions hosted by Challenging Racism throughout the year, as well as any Invite Sessions that are sponsored by private, public and non-profit organizations.

• Challenging Racism: Getting Started workshops are one- or two-session experiences that help participants think about racism in new ways and consider a commitment to taking their learning to the next level.
•  Challenging Racism: Building Understanding is a bundled series of two-to-four of our Getting Started sessions structured to provide a deeper understanding of key racial equity issues and implications in society today.
• Challenging Racism: Learning How is our flagship program of six or eleven sessions that provides participants deeper content as well as storytelling, relationship building, self-reflection, and development of skills in listening and in conducting difficult conversations.
• Challenging Racism: Learning to Lead is a five-day intense facilitation training program that provides the skills to facilitate discussions in any group where race or racial equity issues are likely to arise. The course provides direct practice on how to create safe spaces for difficult conversations in any setting.
• Challenging Racism: Continued provides opportunities and events for program alumni to learn and practice skills, discuss timely issues, listen to experts, go on field trips, and attend cultural events.

​Programs for Organizations

In addition to organizing Learning How programs for their organizations or sponsoring staff attendance at Learning to Lead training, organizations have several options for engaging with Challenging Racism.

• ​​Challenging Racism: Getting Started workshops are one- or two-session experiences that help participants think about racism in new ways and consider a commitment to taking their learning to the next level.
•  Challenging Racism: Building Understanding is a bundled series of two-to-four of our Getting Started sessions structured to provide a deeper understanding of key racial equity issues and implications in society today.
• Challenging Racism: Learning How is our flagship program of six or eleven sessions that provides participants deeper content as well as storytelling, relationship building, self-reflection, and development of skills in listening and in conducting difficult conversations.
• Challenging Racism: Learning to Lead is a five-day intense facilitation training program that provides the skills to facilitate discussions in any group where race or racial equity issues are likely to arise. The course provides direct practice on how to create safe spaces for difficult conversations in any setting.
• Challenging Racism: Continued provides opportunities and events for program alumni to learn and practice skills, discuss timely issues, listen to experts, go on field trips, and attend cultural events.
• Challenging Racism: Partner Program is a three-year collaboration designed to help an organization develop the internal capacity to regularly offer facilitated conversations to employees, members and/or stakeholders.
• Challenging Racism: Custom Programs are educational programs designed for specific organizations or groups.

Programs by Focus Sector

• EDUCATION:  School is a critical place for students in the formation of their racial identity. To support young people in their journeys, parents and teachers need to be aware of issues of race and work together to build the skills necessary to have courageous conversations supporting diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom and at home. This is vitally important in both public and private schools, and schools that have diverse student bodies as well as schools that are predominantly white. ​
• THEATRE:  Theatre plays a vital role in our community as one of the most powerful platforms for storytelling and amplifying the voices of the unheard and unseen. Theatre can touch an audience, help us see through a different lens, and compel us to endure messages that make us uncomfortable. As theatre brings truths to the surface, it can also create safe spaces that enable meaningful connection and lessons that can empower and activate members of our community. 
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When asked, “How do you judge racial progress?”
Black people compare where we are now to where we ought to be.
​White people compare where we are now to where we used to be.

— Eric Deggans (based on research done by Stanford and Yale)