Why is there a limit on the number of people who can attend a workshop?

Our workshops are specifically designed to provide a safe environment for people to learn and unpack their understanding of racism and systemic oppression. The safety of the participants and our facilitators is of the utmost important to us. Part of ensuring that these discussions are facilitated safely, is limiting the number of participants so that the sessions are manageable. For this reason, the workshops are capped at 25-30.

Is there any pre-reading to do before the sessions?

While there are many resources that we encourage you to explore, accessible via our resources page, pre-reading is not necessary for the workshops.

Is your training First Nations solidarity training?

This training is not First Nations solidarity training, and we encourage organisations to do First Nations specific training before or along side our training programs. Our workshops have been developed with advice and paid consultation with First Nations people, however we recognise that our communities are not a monolith, and welcome feedback on our content. Whilst we are not a First Nations specific training, we recognise that issues of racial justice disproportionately impact First Nations people, and this inherently informs our discussions in our workshops.

Should First Nations people and people of colour be attending this training?

We believe that people of colour benefit from developing our understanding and vocabulary in describing our experiences, and that we are all at different stages of our understanding of these experiences. We also recognise that there is vast diversity among people of colour, and that we also have responsibility to reflect on our positionality within the racist systems we are apart of. However, we also recognise the labour and energy that goes into unpacking these experiences, and therefore encourage that these sessions are optional for POC & First Nations staff and volunteers.

Is there a shortened version of your training available?

Our training is timed to cover the learning objectives in a way that allows for deep and meaningful learning. While we can amend our anti-racism training to a shortened version, to explore some topics around racism and racial justice, it does not achieve the deep comprehensive learning or scope of our 3.5 hour sessions.

Do you do unconscious bias training?

We do not run unconscious bias training. We believe the best way for people to build their understanding of structural racism and oppression is to understand the issues and structures that create these oppressive conditions.

Our workshops are designed to support participants to unpack their understanding of issues, deepen their self awareness and their understanding of racism and oppression. Our style of facilitation and workshop development help individuals develop tangible ways they can implement anti oppressive approaches in their personal lives and workplaces.

Is antisemitism or Jewish experience spoken to in the workshops?

As one of our co-founders and content creators is a Jewish person of colour, and as anti-semitism is a form of racism experienced by POC and white-passing people alike, some topics discussed in our workshops also relate to aspects of Jewish experience. However, similarly to East Asian identities, proximity to whiteness significantly impacts the scale and nature of racism experienced by Jewish people, and our workshops aim to centre those most impacted, particularly First Nations peoples, and is thus not a focus of our training.

An excellent (albeit US centric) resource that explores anti-semitism and its nuances in contrast to other forms of racism can be found here.

How do you make your workshops accessible?

We are always striving to make our workshops more accessible. Go to our accessibility page to find out how.