Talking about difficult topics like race can raise anxiety for many people, and yet we must have the conversation in our schools and our lives in order to be more inclusive and change the world for the better. What are the fears and common pitfalls that keep us from broaching topics like race? Gain practical skills for facilitating as well as participating in the conversation.

1. Train the Trainer:
Interruption and Facilitation Skills
for Student Leaders
Seattle Girls’ School
Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee
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2. About Seattle Girls’ School
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3. What Calls You into Leadership?
About Seattle Girls’ School
Think about the time or experiences that
got you interested in diversity work and/or
being a student leader. What keeps you
going? What do you hope for?
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4. Agenda
 Courageous conversations
 What keeps us from having them?
 Priming for the conversation
 Interruption skills
 Practice makes less heart-attack-inducing
 Facilitation skills
 Practice makes feeling more comfortable
 Wrap up
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5. Courageous Conversations
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6. Fears and Anxieties that Keep Us
from Having Conversations
 Offending
 Losing Face
 Tokenism
 Social Risk
 Bursting the Bubble
 Rocking the Boat
 Conflict
 Lack of “Authority”
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7. Pitfalls and Obstacles that Keep Us
from Conversing Again
 Outbursts
 Silence
 Denial
 The Good Talk
 Teacher vs. Facilitator
 Personal Attacks
 The Quick Fix
 Leadership Oppression
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8. Open Acknowledgment
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9. Define the Opportunity
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10. NCBI Effective Interventions Model
 Reduce Defensiveness
– Tone
– Body Language
– Respect
 Keep the Conversation Going
– Hear Them Out
– Ask Open-Ended Questions
– Set Aside Your Feeling for the Moment
– Dialogue
 Build the Relationship
 Win an Ally
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11. Everything You Ever Wanted to Interrupt
But Didn’t Know How To…
 Think of trigger events of phrases
 Which ones have proven most challenging?
 Which ones would you like to strategize effective
interventions for?
 Strategize for different people: strangers,
acquaintances, friends, family members, younger
people, etc.
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12. Break
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13. Practice Makes Less Heart-Attack-Inducing
Two Lines Facing Each Other
-Line 1 say trigger phrase
-Line 2 respond
-Line 2 move one person
-Repeat for several rounds
After 10 minutes, we will
switch roles (Line 2 say
trigger, Line 1 respond) and
practice another 10 minutes.
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14. Sharing the Wisdom
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15. Lunch
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16. Facilitation Skills
 Space
 Confidence and Competence
 Relationship Building
 Credibility
 Flexibility and Authority
 Optimism
 Modeling
 Multiple Learning Styles
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17. Facilitation Tips
 Co-facilitation
 Depersonalization
 Vulnerability
 Relationships
 Saving it for Later
 Discomfort
 Clarification
 Listening
 Hot Buttons
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18. Avoiding the Pitfalls and
Overcoming the Obstacles
 Powerful stories
 Powerful statistics
 Powerful analogies
 Facilitation Skills
 Welcoming environment
 Clear and strict norms
 Willingness to sit with
discomfort
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19. What’s YOUR
Facilitation Challenge?
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20. What’s YOUR
Facilitation Challenge?
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21. Practice Makes…
Feeling Even More Comfortable!
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22. Structure
 Groups of 6
– 1 Facilitator
– 3 Participants
– 2 Challengers
 Discussion
 Feedback for the Facilitator
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23. Goals to Strive For
 Be Real
 Don’t End Early
 Don’t “Admire the Problem”
 Sit With All the Feelings
 Support the Facilitator
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24. Discussion Time
Discussion One : How does
socioeconomic difference and privilege
show up at your school? How does it
impact students? How might the
situation improve?
Round One
Discussion
Round One
Feedback and
Discussion
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25. Discussion Time
Discussion Two : How does gender
difference and gender bias show up at
your school? How does it impact
students, particularly leaders? How
might the situation improve?
Round One
Discussion
Round One
Feedback and
Discussion
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26. Large Group Share
What were some:
Ah-ha moments
Great strategies
Heads up
Questions or Concerns
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27. Next Steps
 Attend more Train the Trainer workshops
 Have more real discussions with people
who affirm you
 Have more real one-on-one dialogue with
people who may or may not affirm you
 Continue to learn and grow in your
knowledge base for content AND skills
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29. Presenter Information
Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee
6th Faculty and
Professional Outreach
Seattle Girls’ School
2706 S Jackson Street
Seattle WA 98144
(206) 805-6562
rlee@seattlegirlsschool.org
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30. Resources
• Anti-Defamation League
• Cross Cultural Connections
(www.CulturesConnecting.com)
• Facilitation First
• Jimpact Enterprises, Inc.
• National Coalition Building Institute
• The People’s Institute
• Stirfry Seminars
• The Thiagi Group
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