How to Have Hard Conversations About Race and Privilege with Children

Please join our 3 part Webinar (Wednesdays 7/1, 7/8, 7/15 weekly from 8pm-9pm PST) and conversation for parents and caregivers to learn How to Have Hard Conversations about Race, Power, and Privilege with Children. In this course we will discuss our own process of unlearning and becoming actively Anti-Racist as well as how to have difficult conversations with our children about Race, Power and Privilege. 

The Black Lives Matter movement has highlighted our nation's long standing uncomfortable truths of inequity, and injustice which our country was founded upon. Since May 25th, 2020 the murder of George Floyd has sparked a renewed call for white people and POC ally's to join in the process of unlearning white supremacy so that we may all aid in dismantling systems meant to oppress many rather than uplift all of our nation's citizens. 

Naming that we have all grown up in a white supremacist and institutionally racist system is only the beginning, from here we begin the conversations of unlearning, on a personal level and then on a larger level where we can begin to see our role in dismantling systems of injustice. During this conversation we will speak about the work we can do as white and non Black POC ally's to help dismantle white supremacy. 

We will start with how each of us is on our own journey to recognize and unlearn bias within ourselves. This tool of recognizing and unlearning in ourselves is the first step in talking to children about the current and past events and civil rights of Americans. It is important to note that this process is often messy and these conversations bring up a lot of questioning of what we may believe to be true subconsciously, during this 3 part webinar we will have ground rules to follow and will offer folks to partner with one another to continue the conversation outside of this group. 

This conversation will be led and mediated by Emma Emmerich, Founder and Director of Emerging Sprouts Forest School in Berkeley, California. All parents regardless of association with Emerging Sprouts Forest School are invited to join this conversation.