Anti-Racist Facilitation Training

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Anti-racist Facilitation Training

Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Adult Learning Environments

In partnership with Vancouver Community College (VCC), BCAAFC is offering its second pilot training program focused on anti-racist facilitation.
Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in Adult Learning Environments is a hybrid program (combining both in-person and online components) facilitated by Dr. Cheryl Ward, Rowshan Rahmanian, and guest speakers that will equip both new and practicing facilitators with the knowledge, self-awareness, and skills required to effectively address Indigenous-specific racism in their teaching and facilitation.
The program will begin on September 23, 2024, and will span seven weeks. The first and final week will be in person at VCC; the other weeks will comprise asynchronous and synchronous online learning.
There are 20 spots available. BCAAFC fully subsidizes the tuition and offers a travel subsidy for participants from out of town that are affiliated with a Friendship Centre.

Applications open now!

Credential: VCC Award of Achievement
Tuition: $3,278*
Length: 92 hours
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Questions

Have a question? Email: sie@vcc.ca

What to expect

A wide variety of instructional strategies is used in the program. Instructional strategies may include interactive lectures, story/scenario-based discussions, small-group and large-group in-class activities, guided self-reflection, case studies, role playing, and micro-facilitation and feedback cycles.

What you will learn

Upon successful completion of this program, graduates will be able to:
  • Design and deliver lessons that guide learners through the experiential learning cycle, demonstrating effective lesson design, teaching, and facilitation skills.
  • Identify and analyze the different ways learner resistance may manifest in response to discussions on colonial history and other Indigenous-related content.
  • Develop self-awareness on what may trigger facilitators and learners in the face of anti-Indigenous racism and resistance.
  • Use self-awareness as a tool for managing triggers in self and others when addressing anti-Indigenous racism.
  • Demonstrate effective anti-racist facilitation, inter-racial facilitation, and co-facilitation skills in dealing with a range of facilitation scenarios.

Who should participate

New and practicing facilitators teaching in adult education environment with particular focus on Indigenous facilitators working at the community-based level.

Racialized and White facilitators, particularly those working alongside Indigenous facilitators in an interracial co-facilitation setting, who may be dealing with anti-Indigenous racism in their teaching/facilitation.

Training Dates

In-person: September 23–27
Online: September 28-November 3
In-person: November 4–8

Fees and other costs

Tuition: $3,200
College initiative: $14
Campus resource: $64
Total: $3,278
Learn more about the program on the VCC website.
Please note: the ‘Apply now’ button on the VCC page does not work. Use this link to apply for the training course.

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