Community Anti-Bias Workshop Hosted by No Place for Hate Falmouth

No Place for Hate (NPFH) - Falmouth invites everyone in the community to an anti-bias workshop facilitated by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League). The free event will take place from 6-8pm in the Falmouth Public Library's Hermann Foundation Room on Thursday, April 26, but doors will open at 5:15pm to allow attendees to bring dinner. Drinks and light refreshments will be served. This workshop, an integral part of NPFH – Falmouth’s work to address bias in our community, is funded by a grant from the Woods Hole Foundation.

NPFH – Falmouth is a community-based organization whose purpose is to build bridges to combat bias and to promote respect for all people through education and advocacy. The desire to hold an anti-bias training in Falmouth stems from NPFH – Falmouth’s ongoing work and conviction that community-based conversations and reflection are key to making progress in recognizing and fighting bias in Falmouth and on Cape Cod. This proposed workshop also complements a sign project that NPFH – Falmouth has introduced to the Falmouth Chamber of Commerce and the Village Association. The signs offer the message “All are welcome here…All are safe here.” Whether as expressed through such signs or in the words of our citizens, proclamations of no tolerance for bias need to be paired with reflection and dialogue within a community. This is what NPFH – Falmouth aims to achieve and deepen with this community workshop.

Facilitators for this workshop come from the ADL’s A World of Difference Institute, a national diversity education and anti-bias training model. The workshop provides members of a community with the knowledge, resources and strategies to recognize and address issues of explicit and implicit bias, prejudice and discrimination, and actively promote an inclusive community in which racial, cultural and other human differences are respected and valued. Through facilitated discussions in breakout groups, dynamic anti-bias education activities, and integrated multimedia resources, the workshop designed to achieve the following goals:

• Identify racial, religious, socio-economic, cultural and other human differences in the community, as well as participants’ responses to those differences and the impact of their responses.
• Examine and address explicit and implicit biases and their impact on the community.
• Develop strategies that advance inclusion, equity, and respect for human differences as cores value in the community.

Those interested in attending should RSVP to NPFH – Falmouth by writing to npfhfalmouth@gmail.com, at which point they will receive a questionnaire that they will return to the ADL’s Phil Fogelman, who seeks feedback about perceptions of bias in Falmouth.

To learn more about NPFH – Falmouth visit our Facebook page and (soon to come) website. Sign up for our emails by writing to npfhfalmouth@gmail.com.