course »Restorative Practices: Understanding the Concept of Pattern Recognition Through “Tracking” for Child Welfare Professionals

Date: 2/28/2020, 9:30 am—12:30 pm
County: Alameda County
CEUs: 3
Location: eBerkeley
Sponsor: A Better Way, Inc.
Phone: 510-601-0203
In this session we focus on relational mindfulness, and enter the conversation about relating across difference in a highly unequal society. In mainstream western culture, and particularly in America, because of symtemic oppression, most white (European American) and white-appearing people are socialized is a way that invisibilizes their whiteness. Because 91% of white Americans do not have a single person of color in their social networks, whiteness is invisibilized and normalized, and white people therefore have neither experience nor understanding of the ways that their impacts on people of color differ from their intent. In this session we focus on developing deeper awareness of our social location, and how our social locations shape our perspective in ways that we are both aware of and unaware of. Social location structures the way we are socialized based on gender, race, class, ability, and other differentiating factors. The more our social location is centered, the greater the degree to which it is often invisible to us. In this session, in a non-shaming way we’ll begin to develop greater understanding of our social location, and conceptual frameworks for helping us to become aware of how the different associations that accompany different social locations prevent us from being able to understand the perspectives of others and being able to understand why we impact others in ways we don’t intend. In this group we may caucus and work in separate groups of white people and POC.

*PLEASE NOTE: GABRIEL KRAM’S RESTORATIVE PRACTICES SERIES IS A CLOSED COHORT TO PARTICIPANTS WHO HAVE ALREADY ATTENDED PAST SESSIONS. NEW MEMBERS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED TO THE CURRENT COHORT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND FUTURE COHORTS, REACH OUT TO THE TRAINING DEPARTMENT AT [email protected] ABOUT JOINING. Please choose either the Thursday or the Friday group to attend, but please do not attend both. Attendance at all 10 sessions is preferred. Please make sure to sign up to attend all sessions on either Thursdays or Fridays. This cohort will last from approximately late November to March, with a break over the winter holidays.