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Climate Change Mind Set: Why a Critical Racial Justice Mindset Is Essential for Effective Climate Justice
The purpose of this workshop is to clearly demonstrate how the Global North's longstanding and oppressive mindset regarding Race, Racism and Whiteness (RRW) has informed this current climate emergency*, and how a change in that mindset is essential for effective climate justice work. More specifically, the workshop helps participants begin to identify and then change those same dynamics so they do not continue to scuttle their ongoing climate justice work.
Throughout the day, participants will be asked to analyze their own work, or that of their organization, using a series of assessment and action steps from a critical RRW Climate Justice Framework. To be clear, the core premise of this session is that if we do not fundamentally transform the RRW oppressive mindset of the last 250 years, we are likely to advance solutions that are imbued with these same problematic dynamics that got us here in the first place. As such, utilizing an RRW Climate Justice Framework is vital in our efforts to identify innovative, effective, and long-term climate solutions.
This workshop is a mix of lecture / content delivery, participant discussion, and participant application. The work is drawn from over 20 years of teaching and training on social justice content and the last handful of years teaching and training in climate change and climate justice from a social justice framework.
* Note: While it is understood that Class and Gender oppression are deeply implicated in the overall mindset that has led to this climate crisis, this workshop isolates RRW in order to dig deeply into the complexity of these issues.
This workshop will be facilitated by Heather Hackman. Heather received her doctorate in Social Justice Education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2000.
For the next 12 years she served first as an Assistant and then an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Relations and Multicultural Education at St. Cloud State University. While at SCSU she taught courses on social justice and multicultural education, heterosexism and homophobia in the US, race and racism in the US, social justice education, and oppression and social change.
In 2005 she founded Hackman Consulting Group and began to regularly consult, both regionally and nationally, on issues of deep diversity, equity and social justice with an emphasis on issues of racism and whiteness, gender oppression, heterosexism / homophobia, and classism.
In 2012 she resigned from SCSU in order to consult and
train full time.Her most recent research and writing focus on issues of race, class and gender and their relationship to our understanding and response to global climate change.
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LocationThe Church Council of Greater Seattle (View)
4820 S Morgan St
Seattle, WA 98118
United States
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