Personal Learning
Personal learning through identity and self-reflection work.
Do self-assessment, non-critical discovery.
Know the terminology, common language such as: social identifiers, anti-racism, white privilege, bias, emotional literacy, cultural competency.
Articulate your own identifiers, and the role that they play in your activism and in the societal power systems .
Engage with humility and without being derailed by shame, guilt, defensiveness.
Recognize the societal assumptions that are just part of your culture, and try to unpack them so that you can understand the impact on you, and on differing points of view.
Action:
Take some self-assessment surveys to identify your strengths. These are fun and informative, and will give you information about your characteristics, ask you to identify how you became the person you are now, help you understand where you have had choice in your life, and examine ways of collaborating and approaching challenges. You can take this information into working with other activists, opening you to understanding others, and recognizing how your styles complement each other.
Resources:
Ben Marion Institute- tree of activism
Identity charts, which can also be used to analyze groups.
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/identity-charts
Social identity wheel
Leadership compass self-assessment. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CP78QFR
Cultural iceberg- understanding power of unseen culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woP0v-2nJCU
Social justice standards
https://www.tolerance.org/professional-development/social-justice-standards-understanding-justice
Building community and combating hate (geared towards Middle School)
https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/partnersagainsthate.pdf