Community Anti-Racism Education Initiative (C.A.R.E.)

Campus Workshops

C.A.R.E. Campus Workshops

care-anti-racism-10.jpgThe workshops for SCSU employees offer hands-on activities, interactive discussions, and customized approaches that promote anti-racism and belonging. Participants report that workshops offer real-world scenarios and practical steps to increase their self-understanding, cultural intelligence, and empathy to strengthen the university and the community. 

Why we use "stones" as a metaphor

Stones represent memorial and remembrance; their weight can call us to action. In Minnesota’s watershed, as the waters recede, they appear as guides directing us where to journey next. In the Granite City of St. Cloud, they form a bedrock of identity and economic opportunity.

Our workshops use the metaphor of the stepping stones to guide participants to acknowledge and affirm our community so we can act with care, compassion, and empathy. Using a framework of appreciative inquiry, workshops generate curiosity and commitment to change our personal and interpersonal relationships. Workshops can be taken individually or completed as a set, helping participants move from individual islands of effort toward archipelagoes of collaboration and transformative change. 

Workshop Stones: Acknowledge, Analyze, and Act to Dismantle Structural Racism