Leading White Accountability Groups: Create Racially Inclusive Teams and Anti-Racist Organizations - Softcover

Obear, Kathy

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218346270

Publisher: The Center for Transformation and Change, 2024

Synopsis

“Dr. Kathy Obear has long been a leader in the foundational work of white anti-racist education. Now she offers a veritable treasure trove of resources and guidance in this nuanced yet accessible guide for leading white affinity groups in the workplace. This book should be considered essential to every organization’s DEI bookshelf.”
—Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility and co-author of The Facilitator’s Guide for White Affinity Groups

This comprehensive guide features practical guidance, time-tested exercises, insightful case studies, and a wealth of resources and strategies for running an effective White Accountability Group.
Written by an expert trainer and facilitator with decades of experience, this book will help readers make the business case for starting a group, co-create a powerful learning community, identify critical skills and competencies for participant development, design effective learning activities, and work toward becoming anti-racist change agents in their organization.

“For more than thirty years, Dr. Obear has worked not only with other ‘white folks’ but on herself to live an anti-racist life. This resource is grounded not only in her experience as a professional scholar, educator, and facilitator, but in her daily practice. The exercises, tools, and information shared here will meet folks wherever they are on their journey. This is not just a major contribution to the field of diversity and inclusion, but to the world.”
—Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington, President, The Washington Consulting Group

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Kathy Obear is a nationally recognized expert in helping leaders, change agents, and facilitators develop the capacity to create equitable, inclusive, and racially just organizations. Currently president of the Center for Transformation and Change, Kathy is a co-founder of the Social Justice Training Institute, an intensive professional development experience to deepen capacity to dismantle dynamics of racism and white supremacy in ourselves and in our organizations. Among Kathy's previous books is "But I'm Not Racist! Tools for Well-Meaning Whites" (Difference Press, 2017).

Edition details

• Publisher: The Center for Transformation and Change
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218346270
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226