The Network

The Network presents the 2024 Anti- Oppressive Supervision training series. This virtual, 3-day training will be hosted on three different dates; Wednesday April 17th, Friday May 17th, Monday June 24th. Registration to the event confirms your attendance for each session.

Start By Talking (SBT) is excited to support NAADV and stakeholders in strengthening your leadership strategy to prioritize abolition. Adapting our eight-week program, Anti-Oppressive Supervision, to a six-hour training intensive, SBT will support you in extracting the strategy of Whiteness from your overall professional climate. Using the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM) of prevention as a centering framework, the three sessions will cover the following:

This session will explore culture and the ways we are all socialized to center Whiteness as a default. This session will ask you to interrogate all the ways you’ve come to know you and under whose influences and for what larger purpose, including your personal beliefs and traditions, and value systems.

We will also spend time on social capital and your social contracts to reflect how your current relationship with White Supremacy isn’t by happenstance. We will uncover this sophisticated system together and unpack the role that rewards and benefits play in our allegiance to oppression.

 

This session examines how our individual and interpersonal conditioning prepares us to prioritize a type of professional compliance that centers Whiteness and punishes those with no proximity to it. Learners will engage in exercises that reiterate how the Western culture of professionalism, especially in Human Services industries, mimic and promotes individualism, workplace mobbing, harassment, and perfectionism. They will also learn to effectively challenge various “systems-agreeable” power-based hierarchies and advocate for a liberatory environment through the introduction of anti-oppressive organizational frameworks.

 

This final session asks learners to become more familiar with leadership's two key frameworks and outline their anti-oppressive leadership strategy. This will be a working session that will include group work and reflective writing.

 

Additional Note: Homework will be provided for sessions one and two.

CEU's will be given after the final session, once an evaluation is complete.