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Catherine Orland, a trainer and facilitator who specializes in Multicultural Education, Cultural Competency, Organizational Development and Conflict Resolution, consults with groups who seek to become more inclusive or increase their awareness around issues of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability and religion. She is most passionate about ‘working with white folks around race’–in 1998 she founded a dialogue/activism/self-exploration group called White Women Against Racism. In addition to policy analysis and youth development work, Catherine has also organized Study Circles on the racial achievement gap. She is a trained facilitator of Open Space Technology and Intergroup Dialogue. At Mount Holyoke College she had the opportunity to study with Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria. Catherine holds a Master of Arts in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations with a focus in Community Development and Social Action Training from the School for International Training (SIT) in Brattleboro, Vermont.
My Interest Areas:
Intergroup Dialogue, Study Circles, Open Space Technology, Race Dialogues,
Catherine Orland, a trainer and facilitator who specializes in Multicultural Education, Cultural Competency, Organizational Development and Conflict Resolution;
-Consults with groups who seek to become more inclusive or increase their awareness around issues of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability and religion;
-Designs experiential activities and helps groups to process their learning through attentive facilitation;
-Challenges participants to move beyond their comfort zones and deepen their learning, while supporting them with compassion;
-Practices thoughtful listening and utilizes strategic questioning skills. She has a proven ability to help groups clearly articulate their commonalities and differences.
Other Organizations:
East Bay Community Mediation (EBCM)
Progressive Consultants Network (PCN)
Fabulous Faciltators
IAF
ASTD
NTL
Where to Find My Work:
***My Master's thesis is entitled, "Teachers, Study Circles and the Racial Achievement Gap: How One Dialogue and Action Program Helped Teachers Integrate the Competencies of an Effective Multicultural Educator."
http://www.thataway.org/exchange/resources.php?action=view&rid=2854
***Stories from a newsletter I wrote for the MCPS Study Circles Program.
http://web.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/studycircles/stories/
My Favorite Links:
Some of my favorite social justice and alternative media links live here:
http://www.catherineorland.com/links.html
I am co-facilitating a pre-conference workshop the day before the 2008 NCDD conference begins in Austin. The workshop is entitled "The Whiteness Learning Lab: A Deeper Understanding of Racism and White Privilege as Essential to Inclusive Community-Building."
