Workshop | White Allyship Transformation: Advocate, Ally, Abolitionist, Accomplice to Co-Conspirator

Throughout this country’s history, there have been anti-racist white people who stood against the dehumanization, enslavement, exploitation of Africans, and the genocide and land theft of Indigenous People. They were white advocates, allies, abolitionist, accomplices, and co-conspirators. Despite being grossly outnumbered by racist, immoral, hateful, and pernicious white people, they decided to fight for full freedom, equality, and inclusion during a violently hostile epoch that was savagely oppressing Black and Indigenous Peoples. 

This training reminds us of those brave, bold, and courageous white people who during the last five centuries, embraced their humanity by first advocating, and thus becoming, ally, abolitionist, accomplices, and co-conspirators for justice. They risked, some even gave their lives to advance freedom, liberation, and self-determination for Black, and Indigenous Peoples. Today’s racially- charged turbulent times offer new opportunities across all sectors, and throughout every area of people activity (personal, professional, and community networks) for white advocacy, allyship, abolitionism, accomplices, and co-conspirators to take the appropriate actions that finally establishes political, economic, and judicial equity and inclusion for Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC). 

During this training participants will develop or expand their understanding on the process of becoming and evolving, from advocateto ally, abolitionistto accomplice,and ultimately, becoming a co-conspirator. These roles all have varying power relational dynamics among BIPOC, and thus varying racial equity impacts across areas of influence.

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With over 30 years of training and facilitation experience, Greg Taylor has directed dialogue with diverse groups in the business, educational, government, healthcare, nonprofit, and criminal justice sectors. He navigates easily and effectively within controversial frameworks with individuals/organizations that have competing interest/ideas, and who—quite often—operate from positions of power, privilege and influence.

Greg’s innovative, energetic, and dynamic facilitation and training style creates and sustains authentic engagement from participants. His approach is a transformative synthesis of intentional training design and effective facilitation focused on outcome-based interactions. He seeks to create movement—in participants’ understanding, positions, and values—to establish receptivity to new ways of achieving desired results. He collaborates with clients to cultivate a learning environment that fosters open dialogue in processing new perspectives and deliberating on innovative solutions.

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