Session 11:
Prompts

1) Anti-racist spiritual friendship

What are you willing to risk?

How might anti-racism become “a way of moving through the world”?

2) White supremacy culture in organizations

Which of these characteristics are at play in the life of organizations or communities you are part of? How do you reinforce these patterns? What are antidotes you can cultivate?

Either/Or Thinking
Power Hoarding
Fear of Open Conflict
Individualism
Progress is Bigger, More
Objectivity
Right to Comfort

Perfectionism
Sense of Urgency
Defensiveness
Quantity Over Quality
Worship of the Written Word
Only One Right Way
Paternalism

3) Stages of white awakening for organizations

Looking at these two maps, where is the Triratna Buddhist Community in your experience? What about your local situation?

  1. Exclusive : An Exclusionary Institution

  2. Passive: A "Club” Institution

  3. Symbolic Change: A Compliance Organization

  4. Identity Change: An Affirming Institution

  5. Structural Change: A Transforming Institution

  6. Fully Inclusive Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization in a Transformed Society

    - © Crossroads Ministry

  1. The Club

  2. The Affirmative Action or ‘Token’ Organization

  3. The Multicultural Organization

  4. The Anti-Racist or Liberation Organization

    - Dismantling Racism from the Western States Center

4) Learning from other sanghas on the journey

Are you drawn to the vision of an authentically multi-cultural Buddhist community? Why? Why not?

What is something radically doable now you can commit to in the efforts towards collective / organizational awakening?

Moving through the Mandala…