Fault Lines

Session options

4-hour in-person session covers:

• Fault Lines framework: understanding your Fault Lines blind spots across race, class, gender, generation, geography, sexual orientation and how they create perception bias.
• Restorative conversation with attendees to unpack survey results and discuss findings.
• Unconscious Bias: how biases are formed, how to be conscious of your own.
• Microaggressions: what are they and who commits them?
• Personal bias exercise: what did you learn about your biases?
• Customized Fault Lines strategy exercise.
• Work with clients to frame “from to” exercise that applies to a specific topic or strategic goal.
  • Break into groups, workshop the question, report out.
  • Homework: continue to flesh “From tos” and develop strategies and steps.
  • Optimal size of training group: 25-30.

3-hour video session via Zoom covers: (Due to COVID-19 distancing, we are experimenting with longer online sessions and formats)

• Fault Lines framework.
• Restorative conversation with attendees to unpack survey results and discuss findings.
• Unconscious Bias: how biases are formed, how to be conscious of your own.
• Microaggressions: what are they and who commits them?
• Personal bias exercise: what did you learn about your biases?
• Customized Fault Lines strategy or “From to” exercise.
• Homework: continue to flesh “From tos” and develop strategies and steps.

Learning and Evaluation

• Pre- and post-training surveys of attendees to assess level of cultural competency.
• One 60-min pre-training call for background and to shape training.
• One 60-min post-training call to unpack survey results and discuss “From to” next steps.

Tenor and tone:

The sessions are upbeat, interactive and engaging. We seek to create a positive and open atmosphere. This isn’t about finger pointing. It’s about understanding ourselves in service of more nuanced and inclusive journalism and workplaces.

Fault Lines session fees and contact: Martin Reynolds - mreynolds@mije.org