hi my name is Andre Koen and I want to 
say thank you for joining us in
this particular course. So let us begin with a session already in progress... I was born male
and identify as being a male which gives
me some privileges that I didn't ask for
it offers some hurdles but it gives me
some privileges as well as low as we as
we look at this
I want to take those things in mind that
I am operating from a private place that
is balanced with privileged and with
oppressive responses to to an oppressive
system so so there is that balance so
there may be some things that I don't
get there may be some things that I miss
what I want to be the best advocate that
I can and hopefully through this process
you call me and Ally one of the things
that we miss oftentimes in this work is
that we we say that were allies but
that's not something you can say that's
what other people say about you you can
be an advocate in till they say you're
an ally and so in my presentation I i
don't have a lot of answers I have some
questions that have been trying to
respond to most of my life and put the
students that I served I worked just on
the other side of st. Paul and a charter
school
skills for tomorrow's a small charter
school and her kids that could not all
were not successful in big buildings so
they came to us for all sorts of
different kinds of reasons and they have
some real questions for me and as a
teacher walking into the classroom I
thought I had all the answers until they
started asking important questions so
the presentation I have for you are the
answers to the questions that the
students asked me so I'm going to share
with you what I learned from my students
in this presentation
or so so there's that so it's very clear
that you have handouts in front of you I
have a PowerPoint presentation I I am
well prepared for that put the task at
hand as important as I think my things
are now get your hand out you're very
welcome as important as I think my task
is today I am also interested in
questions that you may have or things
that you were hoping we would talk about
in this particular session what did you
hope we were told we would talk about in
the session
to what ok
connect
yes
ok
how do you see that being not only
something that we should talk about
something that could be helpful in our
conversation
ok
other things we are hoping we were
talking about
ok so to connect in to offend
yes
ok
talk about it one more time your head
will pop off or you'll scream if you if
you have to talk about this thing one
more time is there anything that you
hoped that we would not talk about
alright it's all on the table good good
good good good so the first thing I like
to do is if you can open up your your
hand out and if you look at number 35
gray circles 12345 what I'd like for you
to do what I want you to write down one
thing that is of value to you or
important to you and each one of those
circles so one thing that is important
or value to you it could be a concept
like freedom or justice could be a place
like home eg or believe it could be a a
thing like a motorcycle or a person like
a significant other grandchild it could
be a thing like a motorcycle or one
thing that is important to you and each
one of those circles yep yep just a
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all five what I'd like to do is I like
to play a game and the game is very
simple
what I want you to do is that what you
to find a minimum of two different
individuals to sign on each one of the
things that you wrote down that they
either agree with you want that they
like so I think that's a great idea that
you wrote down the loop as one of the
places that you you got your value think
that's a good idea so I put my initials
next to next to that hold on just before
you start gonna make sure but it gets
the same amount of time that a similar
to something that you have rights as
either similar or something that you
appreciate that they have or on their
paper in and like reading to get a
minimum of two different people for each
one of the things you wrote down you
have five circles which would which
would mean you have a minimum of how
many people ten people and will be great
if ten of those people
alternate those people were different
alright if if there if you can't do that
that's fine too but let's shoot for that
as far as our goal you have a total of
ninety seconds to do this
starting now
yes I do count at sea
friends
that's what I'm doing the same time so
yeah yeah yeah no I get mad because I
can't get other peoples but I me try to
sneak into earlier sessions so maybe
I'll try it when I see it happen
so you know
we have a it's funny to be a so-called
diversity training or or what not to
have a diversity of people in the room
and so if you are if you're with people
cooperate if you can't just raise your
hand will be great
alright cool if you're not with people
incorporated you just tell us what
organization with Human Services yes
they should incorporate missions
incorporated in Plymouth yes major metro
HRE
Council Boy Scouts yes domestic violence
shelter Dakota counties see the AOC yes
community-development ok I'm sorry yes
Dakota County social services so many of
you may or may not know I used so I
worked in Anoka County I was there from
an infection officer for eight years and
so so I have a lot of an affinity for
government and government work which is
kind of limited itself to this idea of
working with people who help other
people because that is the the point of
government and so so I'm glad to see my
government counterparts here so if you
were going around the room
suppose about was there anybody that was
able to find their minimum of 10
anyone able to find obviously more than
10 and what was the what was your number
fourteen ok yes
19 she's like killer networker you have
more than nineteen know what do you have
in the back you have twelve ok so so as
you were walking around the room and you
were reading other people's things
whether things that you saw on other
people's papers and you will like and
what should I wrote that what were some
of those things that you see other
people's paper you like I said yes
nature alright what else yes travel
compassion integrity mountain biking
literature ever accepted sweet sweet
sweet sweet where there are also things
that as you were going around the room
that were either difficult to find
someone to sign on you actually didn't
get anyone to sign on that particular
circle example that yes again
so if you want to raise your hand if you
ok great so you have more people go you
Portland Oregon was there something else
yes I just want to tell you I'm pointing
at you yes
family heritage so if your family here
it is about you to you even if you don't
know it but it was a value to you please
raise your hand
alright yeah one more thing they see the
difficult to find someone to sign or you
didn't find someone
in general right so if you if you value
and I would imagine that cabins
represent leisure rights if you if you
buy you leave sure at some point I mean
I know you're all hard-working people
but but if you value leisure even if you
didn't write your paper please raise
your hand so i think is the moral lesson
of this particular activity light why
the US this particular session with an
activity like this to show that were
more similar than we think we have
similar values
underneath where more than we are
different
brilliant
you don't know about those values are
you don't know about those similarities
or even those differences you don't know
about them until you engage with someone
else ya know that he did a mix of things
you you had your highest priority things
that you value and then you have just
kind of random things that you value and
that if you will like me you may have
missed those things up and just selected
five and wrote those things down and I
would imagine that you value more than
five things would that be a safe
assumption yeah yeah so out of all those
things I think that is very interesting
that you actually able to find
connections with other human being to do
this particular activity with your
clients what do you think you would find
similarities things right there may be a
little bit differently but at their core
there they're similar so I'm really I'm
really intrigued by this because I make
the assumption that I don't want parents
don't know each other a safe assumption
yeah right now we all grew up in the
same community the same household serial
the same way you know who but are not
toast differently but how is it that
were able to come up with these things
and make these people one of the things
that oftentimes happens and I i sat in
chairs very much like like this
the seat you're sitting in and heard a
private person present like I'm
presenting and oftentimes that they we
spent a lot of time talking about our
differences and not enough time talking
about the ways in which we are alike and
so I I like to balance those things
today that will both end right we we we
we can be more than one thing at one
particular time and so that leads me to
this idea of cultural humility he
basically said that I don't know
everything and that's what I know
everything but I have to be humble
enough to know that I should probably
ask you know this idea of being
culturally competent I want you to take
up the scale of being able to so we're
gonna
so we'll come back to that came in just
a second most valuable non-renewable
resource I don't want to get into you
know metaphysics or you know and what
not but I do want to say that there's
only one you ask your parents and
they're probably grateful that I don't
know if you can imagine me being twins
that would be used to know the human so
let me know when I think about that
understand is that nation states are
formed Kingdom for form to harness the
power of the human soul of the human
soul and you know teaching middle school
teaching high school I have to come up
with some simplistic way is to talk
about some pretty and so if some of the
things that present to you seen to be
simplistic they're not done my job right
side of the human soul and I take this
this particular model the human soul
that the human soul is comprised of two
part it is the physical body right it is
the house that we inherited and it is
the enemy team spirit that's within us
and I whether that and you know whatever
happens to the animating spirit once the
body stops working
you know you can find out for yourself
but there is clearly something that
animates business that is separate from
this sample from the passing of my
grandmother so so I love my grandmother
wonderful woman
had misunderstood her for the majority
of my life because I thought my
grandmother was nasty I didn't know she
was nasty because she would do like we
did spend the night at her house with
Saturday night and Sunday morning she
would get her jelly jar out and there'll
be more in the jelly and my grandmother
would say old throw it away and then
third the jelly will there be peace on
the changes and she just cut them all
off and then change it as a kid I
thought that was until I understood that
she grew up in the Great Depression and
you didn't throw in Sochi
under misunderstood by light when she
best we have this customer my family and
many people who share a similar custom
where we spend way too much on a box
that we will never use and so evil
unless you know look at in different
directions see you know different you
know cameras and all sorts of stuff and
so this stuff my grandmother in this box
and they they they they put way too much
makeup on my grandmother and that was
not her best week it was not her best
week so they put on there and they put
in front of the group of people and
people come by to get my grandmother
their last wishes they come by the
gipper the last wishes and so some
people talk to my grandmother they've
faced a stuff to work some people my
grandmother notes and then other people
you know you always had that one family
member that once the touch the body
writers like you don't want to tell you
which allows blue home now the only
thing going on but as people are talking
to my grandmother giving notice my
grandmother house my grandmother
responding
because nobody was whole body without
the Spirit the body becomes a thing and
later we would take us we would drive up
my grandmother's house bill for
spaghetti dinner and everybody would
bring their version of spaghetti I just
want to tell you you don't eat
everybody's version of spaghetti when we
get there we open the photo album and
we're looking at pictures weren't
laughing and we're telling jokes and I'm
keeping my cousins from the ashtrays
that my grandmother used for twenty-five
year but it's crazy her estres y estaba
would tell any stories when they were
joking feels like my grandmother is
there but she can't enemy anything and
so when when the human soul is is is
perfect it's when the body and the
spirit are jointly related that there's
a good relationship and when the spirit
of the body
the spirit becomes power less so
starts to happen we have something that
we call this we have Spanish easy when
we have a separation between the body
and the spirit we have this is it's not
easy it is doctor right now we have a
few min said they're above forms when
the bubble forms there is a monster that
is waiting for this boy to perform it is
cited about the formation and do we call
it is called market cap of the Loom the
boy was playing market capitalism it's a
suggestion around this boy we have to
fill it I'm not only do we have to fill
but capitalism says what this and it
will have you ever seen a commercial
actually makes you feel better about
being a human being
most of them are telling you how you
enough if you drink this and i think is
really funny because you'll see some of
these news programs and it creates so
much anxiety and you're like and then
they have an anti depressant or answer
yes true medication Ryan out at the
commercial I think that's so funny yeah
so consumers more capitalism is waiting
for this boy to make humans again we've
got avatar that are part of that this
doesn't work
philip Seymour Hoffman Janis Joplin
Elvis Presley Michael Jackson Robin
Williams that her that her all my all my
all my life I've known Robin Williams
right from ork hurt me know what will
work with our clients part of the things
that there is this
disillusionment because they know what
the world health and so they come to us
you know I have tried this you know i i
smoke this and this is supposed to make
me feel better but it's not working with
these number of people and it's supposed
to be helping me but it's not it's not
helping me I tried this lifestyle that
lifestyle then there are a bunch of this
place but but the stuff isn't working
why because we're often times not trying
to unite the soul you know I remember
this came back to me as I was prepared
for this and some others other sessions
this came back to me and it really I was
watching up so when I was in elementary
school there was a miniseries on which i
think is interesting because it was
three hours a night for two weeks for 10
days 3 hours a night I don't know what a
maxi series would have been like there's
a mini-series based on a book written by
Alex Haley and the book was was entitled
roots and so opening episode there they
have captured a young man from North
Africa actually from West Africa and
conditioning him or the economic system
of slavery the conditioning him for this
economic system
of slavery and so the young man is
played by LeVar Burton and if anybody's
ever watch reading rainbow is the
reading rainbow guy you know
take a look at this book I'm reading
okay so he's also joining the forward on
Star Trek right so I always wondered how
he would have to wear these visors a
piece in the future like I would have to
be blind in the future when you know
it's so late later they took off the
thing he could like like with future
ahead for this young man
conditioning him for the system of
slavery and they haven't
and I and the conditioner purpose just
knew he was just horrible thing and if
so when he says what and the Barberton
says my name is and this conditioner
says your name is Shelby
continues off unless you know their last
and the conditioner and he says what the
Barberton hang in there my name is
probably what happened
his soul his body and now his body has
become a thing while banks and I'm all
about women's lives and I love Wonder
Woman as a character I'm glad they're
put more clothes on or what not you know
just because all the other with their
underwears on the outside anyway so so
so love that low low low that try to be
an advocate in whatever way I can in
particular to my sisters 222 my mother's
my grandmother I try to be as an
advocate as I can and so what it thinks
it that I find interesting is that there
are many would consider themselves to be
good
you go through these things called
gentlemen's clubs right and then go to
the club there's nothing gentlemanly
about what happens in those globe what
they go through his clothes and why do
they do these know who consider
themselves to be good
go through these clubs are they able to
justify going to these clubs are you
know somebody who's going to win his
clothes were right
yeah they don't know anybody there I was
one of those dudes a rite of passage
what do they were supposed to do other
guys told us that this is the kind of
stuff was just a few songs TTB stuff our
friends talked about whether they really
did or didn't do it you know you know we
don't know yet but that's what you're
going to do this this place so in my
younger days I lived in st. Louis and
their across the river from st. Louis is
a place called East st. Louis depressive
place but added you can do it do it do
my best friend was coming in and you
know I'm still you know a bombing as a
human being I wasn't quite as human as I
am today and and so we're gonna
celebrate by going to a strip club in
that strip club they take it all right
so we get in there we we we take our
seats and so you know we pay $7 for a
coke
apiece and becomes al
and she she wakes so he don't think she
turns around and we put no money no man
ellroy he talked to all and so so she
you know she is and she takes off her
attempt to turn around and then you know
drops her parents and they should turn
around and my buddy and I we look at
each other and we go oh my goodness what
have we done we were just shocked
shocked I had a scar from here to here
somebody's mama was somebody's daughter
somebody's we got up and we left we've
had two conversations about it since it
was the most humiliating and
embarrassing for us I can't imagine what
it must have been like for the woman to
get the courage to be able to have to
know that she has to do that in order
for grouping books like to give up our
money so that she could feel her babies
imagine what it must be like but I did
understand that I wasn't there to
celebrate her humanity because she
wasn't human to me she's my faith
it was a lot of people call those things
for them
strippers
she was a stripper when I hear people
talk about some people and they say well
that's what's up thought you were just
trying to human being in 2002 to give
back what they think they've lost and
when they bought that because we suffer
from illusion optical illusion
artificial barriers to authentic human
relation whatsoever from those things
what is an optical illusion
race is an optical illusion that my skin
color it may be different than yours and
my hair texture might be different might
know the whip up my nose might be might
be different that is important for you
to understand how other people relate to
me but that doesn't make it any
different
go back to you
asked three questions because this
hypothesis about how we start to reunite
this human soul and and I want to test
this out and see if my hypothesis
remains to be true so please raise your
hand if you can answer yes to these next
three questions ring that you went down
the things that you value was there
anything that would be identified on
Human Resource Room associated with your
race or ethnic identity there anything
there that would be your race or ethnic
identity on a chart form human resource
for me no ok who is there anything there
that identifies you or gender or gender
identity of one person or lastly for
this when I want to jump up in the air
wave your hands like you don't care but
not you could be an indication of your
social economic status as determined by
the IRS know what do you think that your
your racial or ethnic identity didn't
show up for most of us are gender gender
expression didn't show up or lastly or
socioeconomic status why did those three
things not show up when I asked you to
write down your values
because they really aren't important
right those things down at some extent
we take them for granted
values that we that we all share
regardless of the things alright
while his body related and that soul I
would also suggest that you are smart
for not writing those things down
because of two things one is that all of
the things that you could tell you about
those don't rate as high as these other
things I'm not saying that they're not
important but they're not as important
as the things that you wrote down and
secondly I would imagine that some of
you may have been a report may have been
afraid to write some of those things
down for what other people might say
about you and I want to you know relieve
your fear around that because people
will still say whatever they want to say
about you
that we suffer from these optical
illusions that we think that we're so
much different when it that we're not
that these core values are important and
they may show up and be demonstrated
differently and we need to be responded
to differently but that's the test that
we've we've said that we're going to
take we're going to take that we're
going to take that task we're going to
wrestle with those things and we're
gonna help those folks in ways that make
the most sense for them so we're gonna
help heal their soul and so we we've had
institutions I said that they are going
to help take responsibility for that and
we'll talk about those institutions in
just a second let's talk a little bit
about schools schools of thought and
where will be kinda take an hour are
leaning there are there's this school of
thought around white privilege versus
people of income people of color
internalized oppression there's the
spectrum there is the site of cultural
competence versus cultural
destructiveness where people actively
work to destroy the cultures there are
model cultural mindset and the idea of
intercultural mindsets where monoculture
is about simplicity
intercultural my thoughts are about the
complexity of our relationships this
idea of knowledge skills and abilities
and the the other end of the spectrum is
this idea of sensitivity training and so
I'm going to do my best to work through
a number of these schools of thought
simultaneously as we move forward
through through our workshop today and I
will also make available to PowerPoint
so you don't have to feel rushed or
pressured to right now too many notes if
you just want to make notice of the
things we've talked about and so one
other thing
we we have to offer is I thought I
devices or technological marvels
absolutely the most magical things I've
ever used to have one of these iDevices
you have the Android devices do you know
how those things work like if they put
them all on the paper you had to put it
back together and make it work could you
do know I couldn't do that right so far
as I'm concerned it's magic but I double
message degree in educational technology
so how to use technology and all the
great stuff right and so so I have my
devices at the house and I'm you know
I'm just working on presentations and I
let my mind the price down my daughter
who was 18 months mix up my device
platform across all watching her like
she can operate my and one of the things
that I threw that just watching that is
that Apple devices all of these
electronic devices are be to Android or
Apple device they are designed with all
of their technological advances are
designed to be very simple and so when
we talk about these ideas of of cultural
competence and we talked about diversity
stuff I don't know what to call people
anymore I don't know you know I don't
you know what you know what's
appropriate was inappropriate to to call
these people and what I like to
introduce you to is a concept called
diversity elegance
ballet dancer do their thing I want to
do is hold up you know and and the
ladies are doing that because they make
it seem so simple
have you ever tried to do it just
thinking about making a user-friendly
for people
diversity elegance and so what I like
for you to think about is how do you
take these concepts that were used it
and make them elegant how do you make
them user-friendly for folks like
privilege the concept of white privilege
is is a great concept is not falling
down like this has been depressed just
like his blood and blood brothers and
sisters that they don't very well exists
but we have to have a more critical
conversation we have to have some
elegance and how do we bring those folks
along one of the things that I I can see
now is that for the last 16 years that
President Barack Hussein Obama has been
president there's been a large group of
folks who have felt that they have not
had a boys and now they seem to feel
like they have a voice and how do we get
those brothers and sisters back we bring
them back into the fold and say this is
what's best for all of us
this idea of culture humility or
diversity elegance basically is one that
is constructed understanding of
developing a process-oriented approach
to competency it is conceptualized
cultural humility as the ability to
maintain and interpersonal stance that
is
is other oriented and open to others in
relation to aspects of cultural identity
that are most important to the observer
right through to the person so being
able to idea of culture community
diversity elegance is really about being
able to opt open to other ways of being
and not being threatened by other ways
that be when I think it went well well
kind of talk about is the best model
cultural development and moving from
model cultural mindset intercultural
mindset this idea of denial polarization
minimization acceptance and adaptation
and what we talked about this to the
idea of black lines matter and all eyes
matter it actually moves along this
continuum and we could see where some
conflict happens when we move along this
continuum and a bit model monoculture
mine said missus differences it's a
denial
differences are important let's not talk
about differences polarisation start to
talk about you know what difference is
better than another difference this idea
of minimization de de de emphasizes
differences and say you know says people
are people you know no matter what color
I don't see color color blind therefore
I'm a good person accepting this idea
that I understand differences so I know
what day single DeMaio is on
where adaptation says I know had a cross
bridges I know how to work with folks
across cultural boundaries I know when
to assimilate went to imitate went to
adaptive 22 those environments so we'll
talk about that more a little later she
will do this one last piece and then
we'll take a break
now take a break now we'll come back
with us you've been sitting long enough
I appreciate your time thank you so much
