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April Quarterly Meeting – joint program with Concord Quarter & Wilmington Friends School

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April Quarterly Meeting

Western AND Concord Quarters at Wilmington Friends School

(101 School Road, Wilmington, DE)

Children’s Program (during Meeting for Worship and Afternoon Program for elementary and middle school age Friends)

child care available 9-11:45 am and 1-3 pm

8:45-9 am Sign-In
9-10:15 am Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business – for each Quarter
10:30-11:30 am Joint Meeting for Worship
11:45 am -12:45 pm Lunch for all
1-3 pm Program by Dr. Amanda Kemp

5 Steps to Stop Your Implicit Racial Bias, with Dr. Amanda Kemp

5 Steps to Stop Your Implicit Bias 

About a year ago Starbucks Cafe closed every store in the nation to provide implicit bias training to its employees. Their training was spurred by an April incident in which employees at a Philadelphia Starbucks store asked the police to remove two black entrepreneurs who were waiting for a business contact. More recently, Lancaster City Police used a taser on an unarmed Black man who was cooperating. This was caught on video and has spurred action.

But what about the everyday indignities, harms and unconscious biases that go unnoticed and largely unintended?

Dr. Kemp’s Racial Bias Awareness and Prevention Training offers:

  • Tools to have productive conversations about racism;
  • Ways to recognize and stop actions driven by unconscious bias;
  • Greater understanding of institutional racism;
  • 5 steps to make your businesses, organizations, and communities more inclusive and equitable.

Note while this is an introductory workshop in many ways, participants will be given opportunities to continue learning and practicing skills gained previously. Participants who have engaged in this work regularly will have much to offer those new to the work. It is an opportunity for all participants to expand the ways we know ourselves and each other. 

Registrants will be given pre-work to prepare for the presentation.

Register here (at Concord Quarterly Meeting event page.)

We also recommend the Stop the Hurt 5 Day Challenge or go to www.dramandakemp.com for Dr. Kemp’s book.

For more information on Dr. Amanda Kemp, please check these links:
Founder of Theatre for Transformation
Watch “Make America Great Not the Land of Hate Again” Music video
TEDx Talk “How to Lean into Conversations about Race…”
www.dramandakemp.com

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WQM Undoing Racism Workshop – Sat, Sept 16

By on August 14, 2017 in

One-day Workshop:
Speaking from the Heart— The Real Work of Undoing Racism from the Inside

Saturday, September 16, 2017
8:30 am—3:30 pm

Lunch provided. Registration required. Free, with $5-$35 donation suggested.

This one-day workshop is designed for participants to     engage with issues of racism and oppression on a personal level. We will learn tools for recognizing, addressing and healing from the impact of racism on our everyday lives. Our facilitators will employ large-group and small-group interactive formats. Reading materials will be provided  prior to the workshop.  Participants from all backgrounds and those engaged at all levels of awareness are welcome.

Our facilitators will be Joyce Bembry and Linda Lucero from Delaware’s Coalition to Dismantle the New Jim Crow.       

Workshop organized by Western Quarterly Meeting & hosted at Kennett Friends Meeting, 125 W. Sickle Street, Kennett Square, PA
For more information contact: coordinator@westernquarterquakers.org or 610.444.1012

 

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Conversations on Race

By on March 11, 2017 in

Conversations on Race – March 28, 7 pm 

Western Quarterly Meeting has been peripherally involved in the planning and hosting of this monthly conversation (4th Tuesdays at 7pm), which currently meets at Kennett Friends Meeting House (in the Worship Room). In March Iram Shaukat, of the Islamic Society of Delaware and the Delaware Civil Rights Coalition will share perspective on “Muslim Families in America”. Followed by small group discussions. All encouraged to participate.

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Conversations on Race

By on September 29, 2016 in

In October we will hear from members of Delaware’s Coalition to Dismantle the New Jim Crow, a grass-roots organization committed to social justice for all. Join us on Tuesday, Oct 25 at 7 pm at Kennett Friends Meeting.

Conversations on Race are just that — an opportunity to listen, share, and learn about what “racism” is an looks like in our society these days. Each meeting begins with a short presentation, followed by discussions in small groups, which give us the chance to listen and know each other better. Talks usually begin at 7 pm, and are hosted in location near town, such as Kennett Meeting House, La Comunidad Hispana, and Church of the Open Door.

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Conversations on Race (series)

By on March 17, 2016 in

Topic: White Privilege
Speaker: Rev. Greg Pelley, Pastor
Unitarian Universalist Society of Millcreek, DE
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 7:00 pm

Western Quarter Friends have joined with MLK CommUnity Advocates and Inclusive Social Ministry for Solidarity (ISIMs) to help arrange a series of Conversations on Race. These conversations will feature a short presentation by a guest speaker, followed by time to gather in smaller groups and practice listening to one another. They will be held on the fourth Tuesday of each month, at a variety of locations.

We hope you can attend.
Please share this notice with anyone who may be interested.
This is an inclusive community event supported by the MLK CommUnity Advocates and the ISMs ministry of the Church of the Open Door.
Conversations about Race will be held on the 4th Tuesday of each month.

 

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