This years’ conference theme, “We the People” inspired the following exciting workshops. The Facilitating Racial Equity Collaborative (FREC) Program Committee curated these to engage thoughtful dialogue and action among those who value scholarship, truth-seeking, democracy, and equity. It is our time to create something new together—all of us.

Click on the magnifying glass next to each workshop to read about the workshop and the presenters.

Advanced: These workshops or sessions offer experienced practitioners ways to share insights, deepen their knowledge, and refine their techniques, methodologies, and skills to effectively disrupt racism and building an antiracist/anti-oppressive society.

Intermediate: These workshops or sessions are designed for participants who already have some working knowledge of systems of privilege and oppression. Participants will be challenged to apply their knowledge and analyze effective ways to disrupt racism as it manifests in their daily lives, institutions, and society-at-large.

Introductory: These workshops or sessions are designed to support those newer to conversations on race, power, and privilege. Participants will be introduced to fundamental concepts of how racial bias and prejudice develop and how they become structured into institutions and systems.

 

Friday, November 13, Session One: 1:00-2:30 PM CST

Networking Session
Advanced
Intersectional Organizing: Racial and Climate Justice
Mistakes White Allies Make with African Americans (Black Lives Matter, Really?)
Intermediate
Praxis Circle: A Model for Liberative Accountability Work with White Masculine Folks
A Nation of Immigrants? How U.S. Immigration Policy is Doubling Down on White Nationalism
The Subtle Language of Otherization
Disrupting Nonprofit Sector Racism to Build Stronger BIPOC-led Organizations
Intermediate and Introductory
A Government Institution's Work to Take Back "We the People"
Fog on the Lens: How our Documents Reveal White Culture and Consciousness
The Wall Isn’t New: Barriers to the Latino Vote
Introductory
Building Connections Across Race: How to have conversations that unite
Finding our Qistory: Queer and Trans POC Historical figures and events

Friday, November 13, Session Two: 3:00-4:30 PM CST

FREC Information Session
Networking Session
Advanced
Black Women are "The People": The Combahee River Collective
The Political Determinants of Health, COVID-19, and Global Black Lives Matter
Intermediate
Creating an Anti-Racist White identity in White Spaces
Possible Actions Taken Here: Living Into Equitable Futures
Racial Battle” and “Brown Body Fatigued”: Allies it’s time to step up…Black, Indigenous and People of Color, it okay to Pause and Re-Charge.
Racial Equity Communication and Managing Conflict
The Paradox of “Minnesota Nice”: Unweaving Patterns of Exclusion
Intermediate and Advanced
Getting CLEAR about Education for the “People”
Introductory
Asian - Black Struggle, Conflict and Solidarity
Cops Out of Schools! But then what?
Varied Levels
Anti-Racism in Rural Minnesota: Developing a Movement
"We the People" Never Included You

Saturday, November 14, Session Three: 12:00-1:30 PM CST

Networking Session
Advanced
Endazhi-manidoowaadak: on sacred ground
Radical Experiments: Values in Action
Intermediate
A Map to the Next World: The journey of one profession's IBPOC members to build collective power and challenge systemic oppression
We the People in Rural Towns: Empowerment and Leadership
The Sweet Potato Comfort Pie Approach (recently featured on NBC Nightly News, Huffington Post, Access Hollywood, KARE 11, Twin Cities Live, and more)
Pre-We, Post-We, Why We is Not We: Creating Strategies for Belonging
What Not to Do: Demystifying Potential Pitfalls in Advancing Racial Equity in the Workplace
Healing ‘We the People’: (Re)Imagining what Can Be
Intermediate and Introductory
What Can I Do?: How to have courageous conversations and facilitate change
Introductory
Communication Amongst Different Races
Practicing the *We* In “We The People”
Fostering a Culturally Responsive Music Classroom

Saturday, November 14, Session Four, 2:00-3:30 CST

FREC Information Session
Networking Session
Advanced
Anti-Racism is the New Black: Examining Performative “Woke-ness” in White Liberalism As A Rubber Bullet Against Conservative White Supremacy
Building a Multiracial Democracy and a Caring Economy Through Partnerism
Intermediate
From Inclusion to Belonging: A New Vision of “We the People”
Organizing Elders for Justice
Recovery from White Conditioning: Building Anti-Racist Practice and Community
Intermediate and Introductory
Minnesota Conference UCC Conversation
Regional Breakout Session (Northern Minnesota)
Southwest Minnesota Virtual Conversation: Taking it Back to Our Lives
Introductory
Rethinking Professionalism in America: How American Professionalism Standards Maintain White Supremacy
The Desi Diasporas: Navigating Subcontinental Trauma, Rejecting Post-9/11 Xenophobia, and Demanding Cultural Competency
Varied Levels
Supporting Each Other in our Work to End Racism through Spiritual Growth