​This virtual Groundwater Approach webinar will be facilitated by The Racial Equity Institute (REI).

​In this three hour webinar, organizers will use stories and data to present a perspective that racism is fundamentally structural in nature.

​They will examine narratives around racial disproportionality and make use of compelling research data to illustrate the systemic nature of racism and the fallacy of typical explanations like poverty, education, social class, individual behavior or cultural attributes that often get associated with particular racial groups.

​By examining characteristics of modern-day racial inequity, the presentation introduces participants to an analysis that most find immediately helpful and relevant. 

​The Groundwater metaphor is based on three observations: racial inequity looks the same across systems, socio-economic difference does not explain the racial inequity; and, inequities are caused by systems, regardless of people’s culture or behavior.

​Resolving racial inequities not only requires a systems-level approach, but also building resilient, cross-systems collaborations among people with a shared understanding of the nature of the problem. The Groundwater Approach is a tool to build that shared understanding.The workshop is designed to develop the capacity of participants to better understand racism in its institutional and structural forms. Moving away from a focus on personal bigotry and bias, this workshop presents a historical, cultural, and structural analysis of racism. 

​Topics covered include our fish/lake/groundwater analysis of structural racism; understanding and controlling implicit bias; race, poverty, and place; markedness theory; institutional power arrangements and power brokers; importance of definitions of race and racism; history and legacy of race in American economic and policy development.

​With shared language and a clearer understanding of how institutions and systems are producing unjust and inequitable outcomes, participants leave the training better equipped to begin to work for change.

​Please check your email right away after registering - the confirmation email will include important information about accessing the webinar, and you may need to fish it out of your spam folder!

​​If you need an invoice to process payment instead of using a credit or debit card online, please select the "I Need an Invoice" ticket type and complete your registration. We will contact you with next steps after you register. Please note that it may take up to 5 business days to receive an email from us. Thank you!

​Registration Cancellation Policy

​
The Partnership Project is committed to making workshop participation financially accessible for as many people as possible, and we understand that life happens. In order to maximize participants' opportunity to attend a workshop, we have designed our cancellation policy with attendance flexibility in mind. Our preference is always to work with folks to reschedule to a future date whenever possible, rather than to cancel.  We do understand that sometimes that is not possible, so when a cancellation is necessary, the policies outlined below apply:

For individual registrations: If the cancellation request is received more than two weeks in advance of the event, the participant may choose to reschedule to a later date, or request a refund of the registration fee minus a $50 non-refundable processing fee. If the cancellation request is received two weeks before the event or less, no refund will be issued, but we will work with the participant to reschedule for a future session.

For group registrations: If the cancellation request is received more than two weeks in advance of the event, the group may reschedule to a later date, or request a refund of registration costs minus a non-refundable processing fee of 40% of the groups' total registration fees. If the cancellation request is received two weeks before the event or less, no refund will be issued, but we will work with the group to reschedule their members for a future session.