Antiracism Coaching
1:1, Executive and leadership Team, staff
Intervention Principle and Theory of Change:
ASDIC coaching involves intensive, reflective, and dialogic engagement (cognitive and emotional) with that which comprises our racial legacy – foundations in acts, decisions, laws, social norms and practices and ongoing meanings, consequences, and reproductions. The ASDIC program offers a comprehensive examination of “the white racial frame” and seeks understanding toward personal and social transformation.
As a community dedicated to mending the brokenness of racism, the purpose of ASDIC is to foster wholeness, spin webs of relationship, and untangle knots of oppression.
ASDIC is devoted to reducing racism by bringing people together across racial and cultural boundaries to explore the very thing that divides us – the structures of racial domination that create our differing life experiences and that deeply shape us individually and collectively.
These structures are not only social norms and institutional practices. They are internalized structures of heart and mind as well – affecting our emotions, feelings, images, assumptions, predispositions, and worldview (Feagin 2010). They are products of a particular history that continues to impact us. The process of coming into wholeness requires us to unveil these structures – to see how they are affecting the ways we perceive and relate to each other, how they inform self-understanding, and fabricate the social arrangements that structure our daily lives. The discursive understanding of these internal and external structures readies ASCIC members to engage the wider community.
Outcomes
ASDIC resources program participants with knowledge, tools, skills, and actions plans to change the future.
ASDIC members move outward into the community to dismantle the institutional and systemic racism that is embedded in their particular contexts equipped with new language, new networks of support, new abilities to build inter-racial relationships, and a deep commitment to racial justice-making.
ASDIC program participants develop internal capacity to create diversity, racial equity, and antiracism programming in their own organizational settings based on what they have learned and experienced in the ASDIC program.