A White Affinity Group Series: "Unlearning Individual Competitiveness & Action Bias In Leadership"

About our Course:

“We’re trained from a very early age not just to be independent, but to be better.”

— Michele Gelfand, Professor of Cross-Cultural Management & Organizational Behavior, Stanford University

“I find that White groups tend to use action as a bandaid to avoid sitting with the pain of what has happened.” – Jim Bear Jacobs, Co-Director for Racial Justice, MN Council of Churches

We’ve all felt them:  the urge to DO something about a situation and the need not to share our methods - from family recipes to successful work strategies. These come from White cultural norms that operate on a subconscious level. We feel them before we think about them. And in leadership positions, there’s also external pressure to act fast and be the best. Yet, neither of these ways of being helps us build a new, antiracist culture. Beyond learning the skills of collaboration and reflection,…