Notting Hill Genesis
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Welcome to the start of your journey as an inclusive leader
ETHNIC INCLUSION & ALLYSHIP
CREATING AN ANTI-RACIST ORGANISATION BY GETTING EVERYONE ON BOARD.
ANONYMOUS CLINIC
The Journey
Uniting colleagues to help provide an inclusive workplace
The sessions are a brave space to be open and ask questions
Attendees learn in an interactive way with polls, handouts, break out rooms and chat
The programme learning outcomes are:
Session 1: Acknowledge
1. Have a clear understanding of what constitutes racism and how it presents itself in the workplace
2. Acknowledge which of your identities hold privilege, and consequent “fragility”
3. Committing to a life-long journey of anti-racist allying
Anonymous feedback
Please fill in the confidential form after the session
Session 2: Action
1. Learn how to interrupt microaggressions and racist “banter” in your teams
2. Start to de-center yourself when you’re called out for microaggressing
3. Grasp terminology and empathetic listening techniques for racial inclusion
Anonymous feedback
Please fill in the confidential form after the session
Playback session 2
Post session resources
NHG Session 2 – Wrap Up document (pdf)
Wrap Up – microinterventions (notes) (pdf)
Session 3: Accountability
1. Getting a picture of how to progress achievements at Notting Hill Genesis
2. Identifying institutional (and systemic) racism at work and interrupting it
3. Defining what an anti-racist leader looks like and how to operate
Anonymous feedback
Please fill in the confidential form after the session
Playback session 3
Resources
THE ALLY TOOLKIT
We will be referencing sections of the toolkit throughout the sessions.
We believe, if everyone within an organisations changes small things, we can change culture tomorrow. The toolkit also contains a checklist, which we will be working through and asking for your commitment throughout the programme.
VIDEOS
WATCH: Being an Ethnicity and Race Ally
Part of our “How to be an Ethnicity and Race Ally at Work” series covering:
• Racism and microaggressions
• Understanding privilege
• The difference between an ally, advocate and champion
• Leaning into discomfort and calling out behaviours
WATCH: Microaggressions
Part of our “How to be an Ethnicity and Race Ally at Work” series covering:
• Understanding microagressions
• Acknowledging microagressions
• Real-life experiences of microagressions and how they manifest
• How microagressions impact individuals
WATCH: All session videos
Learn about Microaggressions, privilege, the differences between race, nationality and ethnicity
BOOKS
READ: Recommended reading
Get stocked up on knowledge. Empower yourself to feel more comfortable talking about race and allying within the ethnicity agenda.
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
Rebel Ideas, Matthew Syed
Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire, Akala
How to Be Less Stupid About Race, Crystal M. Fleming
Don’t Touch My Hair, Emma Dabiri
I Will Not Be Erased: Our stories about growing up as people of colour, gal-dem
Your Silence Will Not Protect You Audre Lorde
Rhodes Must Fall: The Struggle to Decolonise the Racist Heart of Empire, The Rhodes Must Fall Movement
There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack, Paul Gilroy
Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora, Stuart Hall
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, Afua Hirsh
Think Like A White Man – Conquering the World… While Black, Nels Abbey
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer and Muslim Memoir, Samra Habib
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
It’s Not About the Burqa, edited by Miriam Kham
The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla
The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon
Orientalism, Edward Said
Essay: White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh
Girl Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo
White Fragility, Robin J. DiAngelo
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter, multiple authors
PODCASTS
LISTEN: Podcasts
Listen to insightful podcasts while you’re making dinner, you’ll be cooking up a storm.
Listen here> Racism at Work , Binna Kandola OBE
> Let’s Talk About Race, Kamran Rosen
> Brene with Ibram X. Kendi on How to be an Anriracist, Brene Brown
> About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
