Getting Personal: Critical Self-Reflection in Anti-Racism Work

This two part workshop introduces Critical Self-Reflection, a set of practices that lead us to interrogate our actions, assumptions, established patterns of thinking, and perspectives as a means of deepening our anti-racism lens. Critical self reflection is a necessary component of anti-racism as through the examination of ourselves – who we are, how we have come to know what we know, and how we move through the world – we can drive cultural and intellectual humility and ultimately identify how we contribute to cultures of exclusion that cause harm to those with targeted identities. 

The more consistent and competent we are at critical self-reflection, the more spontaneous we are at examining our proximity to power and interrogating our reactions to social triggers. Critical self-reflection drives courage – courage to step up, courage to admit missteps, courage to ask for more, to name insecurities, and to lean into difficult but necessary…