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When Organizations Need to Change Their Culture

6/23/2020

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Many reasons exist why an organization may come to a point of needing to change its internal culture. Some of these include patterns of abuse, patterns of fraud, patterns of betrayal among leadership, or patterns of racism, sexism, or phobias which lead to oppressing certain persons. 

If your organization is considering ways to change internal culture, here are some questions to help you focus and be effective in making important changes: 
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  1. Have you consulted with persons most harmed or impacted by the previous cultural practices you are working to change? What, specifically, is their advise for what needs to change? 
  2. If the changes you hope for take place, how will you know? And how will others know? What will have changed? Be specific. 
  3. Are there amends that ought to take place, first, in order to enact change? If so, what are they? 
  4. If you run into strong and differing opinions within your organization about changing culture, hosting debriefings or constructive, guided conversations may help to relieve tensions. This can be done by organizational leaders, but also may require a third party to more effectively facilitate these conversations. Will bringing in a third party to facilitate debriefings or constructive conversations help with relieving tensions? 
  5. What specific measures need to be put in place to keep the organization moving forward in its goal of changing culture? 

​Keep in mind that the more specific you can be at the outset in making plans for cultural change, the more effective you can be. There are additional considerations to keep in mind, but these will help any organization begin to create an effective map forward. 

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​Rev. Dr. Kate Wiebe serves as the Executive Director of ICTG. She is an organizational health consultant and pastoral psychotherapist. She lives with her family in Santa Barbara, CA.
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Conducting an Initial Assessment for Dismantling Systems of Racism: An Evaluation Tool for Individuals and Organizations

6/8/2020

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As we continue to process in each of our communities the ways that injustices can be addressed and repaired, White persons around you, in your communities, congregations, and teams, or you as a White person, may be re-evaluating systems of racism and wondering what specifically can be done next.

Here are some important practices for White persons to consider, for participating in dismantling systems of racism within one's immediate environments:
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Conduct an Inventory of Relationships
  • How many Persons of Color are leaders in your life, in your immediate surroundings, at work, at school, in your congregation, or in your community?
  • How many Persons of Color do you seek advice or guidance from on a regular basis, when making decisions in your life?
  • How many Persons of Color authors do you read, through books, news articles, academic journals, or other premier sources?
  • How many Persons of Color professionals do you seek services from?
  • How many Persons of Color are neighbors who live in your current neighborhood?
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These are only a few of the questions to be asking yourself related to systems of racism in which you may participate, including professional or work environments, local government, literature, and real estate.

Make Changes
As you review your answers to the questions above, if you found that your numbers are low, what steps can you take to increase the numbers in answer to those questions?

​Breaking down the insulation that the above questions might reveal requires continual intentional actions in which you see and perceive Persons of Color as genuinely esteemed persons in your life. Not as people in need of your help. Not as people to "enable." Rather, as people to learn from, be guided by, and with whom to partner. As peers and leaders in your life.

While it may be relatively easy to increase your reading of Persons of Color authors – and I would encourage you to do that – I would also encourage you to explore the ways you can increase numbers in response to the other questions. This may take harder, or more uncomfortable, work in some cases. It may require having hard conversations with persons in your work, school, congregation, or local real estate arenas.
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Having these conversations, with thoughtfulness and a focus on listening carefully, are some of the ways you can begin to make a difference. ​

Thank you for being committed to care in the face of ongoing collective trauma. Your care restores.

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​Rev. Dr. Kate Wiebe serves as the Executive Director of ICTG. She is an organizational health consultant and pastoral psychotherapist. She lives with her family in Santa Barbara, CA.
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A Pilgrimage from Charlottesville to Jamestown

4/25/2018

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This post was originally shared on the Cville2Jtown blog and is posted here with permission.

Having lived through “Charlottesville’s summer of hate” which filled our streets with conflict and violence, I long to affirm a different message – saying “no” to separation, racism and hate and “yes” to inclusion, justice and love. I am not alone. Many people in Charlottesville are organizing valuable activities to educate about, respond to and stake out a position on white supremacy, systemic racism and inequality. We need to recognize racism before we can dismantle it.

One response taking shape grew out of a speech Rev. William Barber gave about a week after the alt-right brawl. It spoke to my heart. This response, a pilgrimage from Charlottesville to Jamestown, is rooted in a desire to acknowledge the immorality of racism, its origins, its history and its legacy.

Before the summer of 2017, the Charlottesville Clergy Collective, an interfaith, interracial group, had been meeting regularly to get to know one other, build trust, promote racial unity and highlight local issues of racial and social justice. This structure offered a framework from which to respond to the white supremacist rallies. Members of the Clergy Collective developed diverse responses befitting the moral underpinnings of our different faiths. But even taken collectively our actions did not adequately respond to the racist underpinnings of these rallies. While we are now consciously working on healing, many of us desire to do more to address racism.

It is time to recognize this reality: Our country was stolen from land inhabited by indigenous people and built on the backs of black people. Our history has created an American caste system that is alive today. It is time to reinvigorate the work of creating an equal and just society, one perhaps imagined but not yet realized.

October 2019 will mark 400 years since the first ships brought enslaved Africans to this continent. Those ships landed in Jamestown. To unveil the myth of the benevolent explorers and discoverers, a pilgrimage of transformation is being designed to close the narrative gap of our history. This pilgrimage intends to recognize the invasion experienced by the indigenous people and humanize the enslaved Africans. Both peoples developed resilience, leadership and solidarity despite their inhumane and unjust treatment. 

This pilgrimage will occur in two phases: the first based in Charlottesville (October 6-12), the second walking from Richmond to Jamestown (October 13-20). We will honor the lives of the enslaved and those dispossessed of their land, and move toward racial healing.
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Why a pilgrimage? When taking a pilgrimage, we open to the unknown, inviting discovery, growth and transformation. We hope to lay down the typical white response of defensiveness and denial when talking about race, and open to compassion and understanding. We will hear about realities we don’t know. While we will learn about systems and policies that perpetuate racism, we undertake this sojourn from a place of love. We will have opportunities to build new relationships, relationships of respect and trust. With open hearts, hearts turned toward each other, we will continue walking the path paved by others who have worked for equality and justice for all.

Join us.

​We can help America become what it must become.

Rev. Rabia Povich
Inayati Order of Charlottesville
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