Have you signed on to travel with a CP team? Or, maybe you’re a seasoned traveler with CP and are looking to deepen your skills?This highly interactive workshop aims to support Common Power volunteers in navigating diverse spaces and interpersonal dynamics with fellow volunteers and potential voters. The workshop’s content, activities, and exercises engage participants in reflection and mindfulness around identity, power, privilege, positionality, and bias.

We will briefly deepen our understanding of the history of institutionalized racism; we examine how federal practices of the New Deal shaped and continue to impact the neighborhoods in our communities, reflecting on the ways these socioeconomic barriers have furthered inequities, and interrogate the ‘traditional narratives’ which bypass this history.

We’ll chiefly focus on power, privilege, and identity, discussing how macro-sources of socialization impact our biases, assumptions, and ultimately, our ability to connect across differences. We will examine on-the-ground fieldwork scenarios together and unpack them to understand the interpersonal dynamics occurring in each.

This workshop furthers Common Power’s mission to foster, support, and amplify a democracy that is just and inclusive.