July 18-21, 2023 (Eastern Time)
VISIONS' PACE (Personal Approach to Change and Equity) Level I workshop is a comprehensive and intimate introduction to the strategies involved in creating multicultural environments. Upon completion of this course, we are confident that you will possess the necessary skills to identify and challenge "isms" within yourself, others, and organizations. This session emphasizes emotional growth, cognitive learning, and opportunities to practice new approaches.
PACE I serves as the foundational workshop provided by VISIONS. By the end of this course, we believe you will have acquired the following skills:
- Identifying previously unconscious biases and misinformation within yourself, others, and organizations.
- Enhancing effective communication across differences.
- Recognizing personal, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural barriers to inclusion.
- Understanding the enduring personal impacts of historical and contemporary exclusion and oppression, such as the effects of sexism on both men and women.
- Facilitating change within groups and organizations to establish a supportive, inclusive environment.
Schedule:
July 18-21, 2023
Morning session 9-11:30am ET
Afternoon session 1-3:30pm ET
Cost: $1,150; $1,350 for those attending for CE credit.
Continuing Education Information
CE Credits Offered: 17
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending PACE I workshop, participants will:
- Learn VISIONS' Three Dimensions of Change model.
- Identify their historically included and historically excluded group memberships.
- Summarize and explain the Multicultural Process of Change model.
- Demonstrate awareness of how social and hierarchical power dynamics can operate in personal and group interactions.
- Apply VISIONS' Feelings as Messengers emotional literacy model.
- Utilize VISIONS’ Feedback as an Antidote to Oppression framework to analyze and mitigate the impacts of negative conditional and unconditional feedback in interpersonal and group settings.
- Practice VISIONS' Skills for Effective Communication Across Difference.
- Describe and apply VISIONS' Modern Oppression and Survival Behavior/Internalized Oppression framework to an analysis of dysfunctional interpersonal encounters.
This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886744521-6539) for 17 continuing education contact hours.
Facilitator Details
Soerny Cruz
Soerny is a consultant and facilitator intent on connecting deeply and healing together. They have worked with clients from a variety of sectors including public and private education, social services, nonprofit, faith-based, youth, and healthcare since starting with VISIONS in 2011. Previously, Soerny worked as a sexual and reproductive health educator, providing after-school programming in Somerville middle schools. She developed curriculums in English and Spanish on consent, healthy relationships, and gender and sexuality. Soerny studied American Studies and Community Health at Tufts University with a focus on racism and health. They have interned for local organizations such as Alternatives for Community and Environment and Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center. Soerny is a proud native of Jamaica Plain, MA
Jeanne Firth
Dr. Jeanne Firth has been working with the VISIONS model since 2013, first as a client on the founding staff team of Grow Dat Youth Farm in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Firth holds a PhD in Human Geography and the Environment and an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalization, both from the London School of Economics and Political Science. A white, working-class woman who grew up in Kansas City, Jeanne comes from a family with farming roots on the prairie. She holds a lifelong dedication to place-based food justice and food sovereignty work. As a social scientist, teacher and organizational leader, she believes in the importance of upholding both process and content: that how we learn is of equal importance to what we learn.
Joe Steele
Mr. Steele’s work in organizational development includes assessment of work climate, executive coaching, and consulting with businesses and organizations on making systemic changes to better leverage opportunities arising from the diverse strengths of the changing workforce and customer base. He also offers diversity and inclusion workshops to teachers, staff, students, and community partners, in both public and private schools. He received his M.B.A. in International Finance and Global Management from Harvard University.
Registration Details
Schedule
PACE I is offered over four consecutive days, with a morning and afternoon session from 9-11:30am and 1-3:30pm occurring on each day. A general outline for the major curriculum pieces to be covered on each day is below.
Day 1: Introductions, VISIONS Guidelines for Effective Communication Across Difference, Cultural Learning Activity, Multicultural Process of Change, and Contracting for Change.
Day 2: Welcome, Contracting (continued), Feelings as Messengers & Emotional Literacy, Cultural Sharing, Multiple Identities, Historically Included/Excluded Identities
Day 3: Modern Oppression and Survival Behavior/Internalized Oppression; Alternative Behaviors; Feedback/Recognition as an Antidote to Oppression
Day 4: Final contract review; Application Work; Closing
Refund and Cancellation Policy
If a workshop is canceled by VISIONS, participants will receive a full refund. If a participant cancels more than 30 days in advance of the training start date, they can receive a full refund or transfer to another session.
If a participant cancels 15-30 days in advance, they can receive up to a 50% refund or have a 50% discount applied to a future training.
Cancellations made 14 or fewer days in advance of the training are not eligible for a refund or transfer to another training.
