I am so proud to introduce FACTUALITY Jr!!
FACTUALITY, which is a facilitated dialogue, crash course, and interactive experience, designed to simulate structural inequality, has been modified to engage learners as young as 10. FACTUALITY Jr has already reached hundreds of children under the age of 13.
Check out some of the feedback from La Jolla Country Day School's younger scholars:
What's something you learned or something that stood out to you during the Factuality session?
What's something you learned or something that stood out to you during the Factuality session?
- “Something that stood out to me was the ability to think from another person’s perspective.”
- “I never realized just how many different aspects of your identity can stack up to lead to multiple different forms of discrimination.”
- “Honestly everything. It was super eye-opening and helped me connect things. I think it’s interesting to learn about that kind of stuff because as a white female, I don’t understand what it’s like to be a minority in the United States. It's tragic that the black community/ p.o.c/lgbtq+ community have to experience these kinds of inequalities.”
- “Something that stood out to me was how she spoke with such a calm vibe while discussing important matters.”
- “I really appreciated how interactive the session was with the participants. I also really appreciated the data she provided with visuals, data, and suggestions of resources to look at on our own time.”
- “I will think about intersectionality more and be more conscious that everyone has a story and struggles that I necessarily won't understand because I have never experienced them.”
- “I will be more understanding of systemic racism and I will listen more to what I can do to help.”
- “I think factuality will help me to be more mindful in general when I walk this earth and I think it has helped me understand what people in this country go through every day.”
- “I am going to stand up to people who say mean and hurtful things. I am also going to be much more mindful with my actions and words in the future.”
- “For one, I will be more conscious about the fact that I have an incredible amount of privilege. Also, I will reflect and make sure that as I continue to walk through life. my actions don't contribute to the already rampant structural inequality.”
RAPIDLY DISSEMINATES THE FACTS IN A UNIQUELY ENGAGING MANNER
FACTUALITY Jr. is a facilitated dialogue, crash course, and interactive experience that simulates real life experiences in America. It is played with a rich group of diverse characters (above) that encounter a series of fact based advantages and limitations based on the intersection of their race, class, gender, sexual orientation, faith, ability and age.
THOROUGHLY UNPACKS 12 INTERSECTING AREAS IN UNDER 90 MINUTES
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OVERVIEW
FACTUALITY Jr. interactive delivery creates a comfortable environment for participants to engage in meaningful experiential learning. In under 90 minutes, participants will simulate, discuss, and unpack the structural limitations and advantages that coincide with various intersecting identities.
FACTUALITY Jr. is played with eight characters that belong to the following racial groups: Asian, White, African American, and Hispanic. There are male and female characters, LGBTQ characters, Muslim, and Jewish characters. Each character encounters a series of fact based advantages and limitations based on the intersection of their race, gender, sexual orientation, faith, class, age, and ability.
Participants select a character that differs from how they identify and are then engaged in a facilitated conversation that includes but is not limited to: racial, gender, religious, and sexual orientation discrimination, gender and racial pay gaps, redlining and gentrification, median income averages by race and gender, (mental) health disparities, prison and bail disparities, (dis)ability, education inequity, ageism and intersectionality.
FACTUALITY Jr. evokes empathy, increases cultural competence, & enhances self-awareness.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Participants will become acquainted with the intricacies of inequality’s intentionally structured foundation and its crippling cyclical nature.
- Participants will be able to dismantle the various preconceived biases associated with various marginalized groups.
- Participants will leave self-aware and can (begin to) contribute to inclusive rhetoric regarding the dissolution of structural inequality in UNDER 90 MINUTES.