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Selling Prejudice

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This activity, involving writing, discussion, and artwork, is a tool for participants to reflect on their prejudices and to consider how prejudice is passed from one person to another. Participants create an “ad campaign” to promote their prejudice of choice and then examine how powerful such campaigns are.… Read more

Find Someone

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This opening activity has participants walk around with a handout, trying to find others who share some similarities and who are different than they. This is then followed by a debrief of the 14 questions to help understand the issues addressed.… Read more

Bringing it Back Home: Applying Community Based Responses to Violence

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In this workshop, we’ll share examples, struggles, and strategies that Creative Interventions (CI) used in developing a model for addressing interpersonal violence without relying on state-based or social service approaches.  Drawing from CI’s Community-Based Interventions pilot project, we’ll explore the context of community accountability from which CI’s model developed, think through different ways in which community-based responses to harm and violence have been used and give participants hands-on opportunities to imagine how they might respond to the kinds of violence facing their own communities Favorite… Read more

Internalized Behavior

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In this activity, participants explore the behaviors of internalized oppression. Participants think of a marginalized group to which they belong and then look over cards that have some typical behaviors of internalized oppression. After considering these and sharing them with the group, a discussion follows.… Read more

Internalized Adultism

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This activity asks participant to identify problems facing youth and then has them discuss which of their answers may actually represent internalized oppression, or in this case, internalized adultism. Participants are then asked to rewrite these and explore the roots of internalized oppression.… Read more

Owning Up

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This activity asks participants to write down examples of prejudice and then drop them into a bag to make them anonymous. The group then enters the discussion phase to explore the causes of prejudice and ways to overcome prejudice. Favorite… Read more

Power Play

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This activity uses large printed labels to have participants consider which groups hold power over which other groups in US society. This activity helps distinguish the difference between societal and interpersonal power, and looks at the “isms” that hold divisions of power in place.… Read more