This online course examines racism’s complexities and the path toward unity through the Bahá’í Framework for Action, a model rooted in decades of global community building and social action. Highlighting principles such as oneness and justice, the course explores how systemic racism operates and how communities can foster collective healing.
With a focus on learning and action, this course centers Blackness as pivotal to understanding race relations while also engaging Latine and Indigenous perspectives. Participants will explore key themes through discussions, reflection, and practical applications in their own contexts. Rather than a deficit-based approach, the course highlights the power of communities to shape their own narratives and contribute to lasting change.
By the end of the course, participants will gain insights and tools to engage in meaningful conversations on race, apply principles of justice in their daily lives, and contribute to unity-building efforts within their communities.
This course is part of WI's "Connecting for Change: A Learning Series," designed with youth and young adults in mind.
The Journey Scroll began as a custom collaborative participatory retrospective evaluation technique of documenting the history of a process, movement or program based on stakeholder recollection. The process involves engaging stakeholders in creating an interactive timeline with qualities of activities categorized based on modified characteristics inspired by the classic game “Chutes and Ladders.” Participants will learn by doing and receive tips on how to adapt the method to different situations, including prospective evaluation, planning and organizational development, co-dreaming/visioning and harvesting impact. They will also be invited to contribute their own insights on method use. Some participants may be able to get coaching on implementing the tool in their evaluation practice or community and share lessons with the course participants.
Thanks to Anne Price for inviting me to chat about community building with her!
NPF TIG Week: Lessons from the Landscape by Kimberly Harris, Geri Peak, and Mindelyn Anderson
Decolonizing Evaluation Week: Clarifying Decolonization Mumbo Jumbo by Geri Peak
Connecting the Intra/Inter/Structural Week: Virtues that Measure Us by Geri Peak
Decolonizing Evaluation Week: Lessons in Anticolonialism from BIPOC Innovators by Geri Lynn Peak
June 4, 2020: A new article by Geri Peak is up at Linkedin examines putting Liberation into SMART goals and objectives.
This half day workshop ushers in anew era of service supporting our commitment to transforming 'selves & systems by reclaiming our humanity through arts, reflection, interactive wisdom mining tools -- YES, there will be ways to practice and collective power building.
If you are going to CREA, I hope to see you there.
This workshop builds on my Better Being for Clearer Seeing workshops that help us locate the source of our biases and figure ways to manage them for the benefit of the communities we serve.
We'll use story, exploratory engagement tools, Dr. Hazel Symonette's reflection tool and work on collective strategy to share our collective learnings with the evaluation community and beyond!