This day-long pre-conference will introduce participants to anti-oppression concepts and practices, help them understand how systemic oppression and racism show up in food systems work, and develop skills for confronting and undoing oppression on multiple levels. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Through this training, participants will:
- Understand the scope of an anti-oppression framework, where race and a relationship to the land sits in that framework, and why we are prioritizing it
- Understand the mechanisms by which implicit bias manifests structural oppression in social organizations and ecologically
- Understand what attitudes and practices maintain systemic racism and how to approach seeing and undoing one’s own implicit bias
- Develop language and frameworks to talk about sensitive issues within the food system concerning race and equity
- Discuss food systems relationship to the body and labor
- Apply concepts to current situations that participants are in with a focus on transforming dynamics of oppression
- Learn how to use body-based tools in their work to self regulate and shift oppression
- Develop base practices and skills to shift dynamics of racism and white supremacy
- Develop further understanding of their impact within the organizations and communities where they are working
- Understand burnout culture
- Develop an understanding that anti-oppression work is a practice and not a single training
