What is the ACTION Project?
The ACTION Project is a three-year program designed to reflect the critical intersections of learning, accountability, and praxis that are necessary for racial justice. Utilizing non-traditional frameworks, participants learn from the authority, wisdom, and experiences of BIPOC educators.
Learn more about the ACTION Project here!
What content is covered?
These themes are the focus of this three-year program, with some of the emphases described below.
Year A - HISTORY:
We ask the question “How did we get here?” through experiential learning facilitated by BIPOC educators.
Year B - CURRENT CLIMATE:
We explore the current climate, including the disparities in community, and offer trainings in building racial consciousness and community organizing.
Year C - REPAIR AND SOLIDARITY:
We provide tailored consultation, journeying alongside toward the development of a repair ministry in your local community.
What’s included?
Each year of the ACTION project includes meetings, support, and action steps:
- Annual IDI assessment (an online resource that assesses intercultural competence) and debriefing
- Monthly Community ACTION, a plenary gathering to learn with other participants and a trained ACTION educator
- Monthly Cohort Meetings for you to process learning with others, led by a qualified cohort leader (with additional support and separate affinity space for BIPOC participants)
- Weekly ACTION Newsletter curated content and invitations for participants to listen, explore and connect this work to life in their community - delivered straight to your inbox!
- Supplemental Experiences in the form of site tours, trainings/workshops, experiential learning
- Ongoing Support for leaders of participating groups as they lead, including ideas about connecting faith and justice in their context
Need a visual? CLICK HERE for ACTION - at a glance!
**Check out our ACTION contributors HERE.**
What is the time commitment/schedule?
A "feast" of resources and opportunities for learning are provided throughout The ACTION Project! While an average monthly time commitment of 4-6 hours can be expected, participants can engage much more.
Click here for the 2024-2025 ACTION Project Calendar for specific dates and meeting schedule.
What is the outcome for participation?
ACTION participants will:
- Discover new and different ways to change the social justice conversation as they take action in their own communities
- Meet and learn from BIPOC educators and other ACTION participants
- Connect to existing justice-centered networks
- Engage multiple methodologies and cultural frameworks for learning
- Design a sustainable reparations ministry specific to the needs of your local community.
Want more info about ACTION Project?
Contact us at actionproject.coach@gmail.com.
Action Project Testimonials
"The ACTION project took my understanding of community to the next level. It continues to show me the ways I do not or can not see all sides from my own position in culture. This lesson fiercely teaches me why I must be intentionally present and in truer community with people from many different life experiences, histories and points of view. I look forward to learning more and more about how to be intentionally present and truly in community, maximizing hospitality and unconditional love while mitigating the harm that I might bring as a Christian and being a white, cisgender woman."
"The ACTION Project has been an exceptional experience. For someone who reads a lot of books and attends a lot of continuing ed seminars on anti-racism, l've felt a little stuck in one lane. ACTION has been just a step up in my own growth and learning. ACTION has provided access to Educators of Color whose testimonies and stories have humbled me deeply. ACTION is expensive, but well worth the money. And as a Pastor, it has been reassuring that this has been a just and impactful spending of resources. Through ACTION we are building a justice ministry the right way. I am so grateful to Rev. Dr. Jia Starr Brown for conceiving and delivering such a rich experience."
"Involvement in Year A of the ACTION Project was profound and significant. I learned much about others and myself. I found myself in so many situations in the news and my interactions with others asking questions, wondering about other's experiences, and cultural differences. I found a safe space to begin to understand my biases and patterns of thinking and being that are dishonoring and wrong. I also found encouragement in the journey and experienced hope in the process. Thank you."
"My overall experience with the ACTION project was incredible. The most valuable part of the ACTION project was being able to hear from a diverse set of incredibly knowledgeable people who had a combination of first-hand experience of the information they were sharing but was able to add academic contextual knowledge to it during the plenaries as well as the field trips. The opportunity to be exposed to a variety of experts from different backgrounds in the in-depth way that the ACTION project provides is unmatched."
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