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Facilitator's Guide - The Summit for Courageous Conversation 2012

Welcome and thank you for agreeing to serve as a concurrent facilitator for the Summit for Courageous Conversation. Your participation ensures that the presentations will run smoothly and meet the objectives of the presenter. In order to prepare you for your role as facilitator, we have assembled some information and exercises that will provide you with the tools necessary to accomplish your tasks. Please review the information provided below carefully. Thank you!

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE FACILITATOR

Your responsibilities as facilitator include:

  1. Checking in at the presenter table for any materials or last-minute changes at least one hour prior to your session;
  2. Greeting participants at the session door and checking each participant off from the participant list.
  3. Opening the concurrent session with brief, personal comments (no more than 1-2 minutes), this should include explaining the role of the facilitator;
  4. Introducing the presenter(s) with brief, informal comments about their experience or background (you will want to see them for a minute right before the session begins to meet them and get information);
  5. Reporting any needs the presenter has to the hotel or to the Summit staff. This would include but not be limited to any set up issues such as too hot/too cold, no chart stand, no equipment that the presenter thought had been ordered, etc.

PROTOCOL FOR COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION

Throughout the Summit for Courageous Conversation we will be utilizing and practicing the protocol for Courageous Conversation about race (the Four Agreements and Six Conditions of Courageous Conversation, and the Compass). We expect that all presenters will be conversant in this protocol and will utilize it throughout their sessions. As facilitators, you will be assigned to each session to help monitor and ensure that participants also observe and practice the protocol for Courageous Conversation.  We recommend that you spend some time with the presenter to ascertain how she/he would like you interact with the presentation if participants should go off task.

The Protocol is provided below for your review and convenience. You will also find 3 short videos in the resource section that will explain the protocol in greater detail. We ask that you review all content on this page in preparation of your role as this protocol is what guides each session.

Four Agreements

  1. Stay Engaged
  2. Experience Discomfort
  3. Speak your Truth
  4. Expect/Accept Non-Closure

Six Conditions

  1. Focus on Personal, Local and Immediate
  2. Isolate Race
  3. Normalize Social Construction and Multiple Perspectives
  4. Monitor Agreements, Conditions and Establish Parameters
  5. Use a "Working Definition" for Race
  6. Examine the Presence and Role of "Whiteness"

The Compass

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