Unlearning the Script: Power, Fragility & the Long Work of Racial Justice (Justice in Practice Series #1)

The Annual Community Meet 2024 brought together community organizers from around the world. Attendees were inspired by speakers who shared their experiences and insights. The event fostered connection and collaboration among participants, leaving them motivated to continue their work in their own communities. Watch the recordings of these two events here.

This immersive workshop invites participants—particularly those in leadership and facilitation roles—to critically examine how emotional and embodied responses to race, racism, and oppression show up in their practice. Using the lens of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, we explore how defensiveness, avoidance, appeasement, or over-identification surface when privilege is challenged or discomfort arises in equity spaces.

We also engage in practical questions: What do you do when you’re called out in a training space? How do you hold authority and accountability at the same time? What does it mean to correct harm in public, without derailing the learning of the group?

The session is led by Evelyn Amponsah, anti-Black racism and anti-oppression trainer and researcher.

This session is part of the learning series Practicing Justice as Coaches & Trainers, intended for coaches & trainers of the People, Power, Change framework.