Fundamental Fault Lines Question:
How can you be a dismantler of systemic racism in your organization?

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