This three week small group, led by Pastor Deborah and Brenda Conry, will meet via zoom and use the Implicit Bias Training course offered by GCORR: General Commission on Religion and Race.
This course contains learning engagements organized into three overarching areas:
- Recognizing Implicit Bias
- Questioning Implicit Bias
- Transforming Implicit Bias
The United Methodist Church is a worldwide church called to reach more people, younger people, and more diverse people for Jesus Christ and the transformation of the world. Even though many of us have explicitly stated that this is our goal, we look around at the U.S. church and find that it remains over 90% white; we see that tribalism and xenophobia still occurs in Central Conferences; and many of us still have trouble figuring out why cross-racial/cross-cultural (CRCC) ministry settings aren’t as successful as we would hope.
How is it that even with explicit progress and goal charts, a stated values commitment, and the good intentions behind them we still end up with different outcomes than we intended? Implicit bias is what sometimes stands in the way.
By looking at “what we don’t think we think” we can get to one root of the problem between our intended goals and the actual outcomes.
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