Week 8-9 Anti- Black Racism & Conflict Resolution
Block One
Session Theme: Internal and interpersonal conflict
Learning Goals:
Participants will critically reflect on and identify ways they have internalized anti-black racism and how this has contributed to inner conflict within themselves.
Participants will be able to reflect on how they navigate interpersonal conflict. They will observe what actions, thoughts, words and emotions they tend to experience when conflict arises within their friendships, romantic relationships, familial relationships, and work relationships and evaluate whether it is helping them or hurting them.
Meditative Questions:
How do you handle internal conflict?
What vulnerabilities do you think contribute to any conflict you experience towards yourself?
How do you handle interpersonal conflict?
What vulnerabilities do you think contribute to any conflict you experience with others?
Block Two
Theme: Exploring anti-Black racism and conflict resolution
Learning Goals:
Participants will identify and practice coping strategies and techniques to deal with everyday experiences of anti-black racism and safeguard their well-being.
Participants will identify six different ways to handle a conflict.
Major Takeaway
Conflict Resolution Strategies
Avoiding: When one or both parties avoid conflict, and this would result in a lose, lose situation.
Competing: When one or both parties get into a conflict with the intention of winning, resulting in a win, lose situation.
Accommodating: When a party surrenders to the other party's position, this would result in a win, lose situation.
Collaborating: When both parties are cooperative and work together to resolve the conflict by speaking up for themselves in a respectful manner. This would result in a win, win situation.
Compromising: When both parties agree to get a portion of their desired result. This could result in a win, win or a lose, lose situation.
Domination: When one or both parties attempt to control the direction of the situation, which would result in a win, lose situation.
Win, win situations are the ideal conclusion for any conflict
Assertively and respectfully confronting any issues or conflicts have a higher probability of resulting in a win, win situation.
Conflict results from a difference, which is neither bad nor good.
Key Words
Conflict: a condition in which a person experiences a clash of opposing wishes or needs (Google Definition)
Resolution: the action of solving a problem, dispute, or contentious matter (Google Definition)
Emotional Regulation: skills that help regulate the physiology, experience and actions associated with having emotions
Assertive: having or showing a confident and forceful personality (Google Definition)
Passive: accepting or allowing what happens or what others do without active response or resistance
Direct: getting straight to the point
Confrontation: a hostile or argumentative meeting or situation between opposing parties (Google Definition)
Mental: processes information their the mind
Emotional: processes information using emotions
Practical: processes information with the use of 3d materials or constructs (i.e. money, time)
Energetic: processes information by sensing energy
