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 first and final week of the program are 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 who 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

Launch and Orientation (online): December 10
First in-person intensive: Week of January 12 in Vancouver
Online learning: January 19 – February 20
Second in-person intensive: Week of February 23 in Vancouver

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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