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Bryn Mawr College
Community Day of Learning
February 23, 2016
Killing Me Softly: Raising Campus Consciousness of
Racial and Class Microaggressions
Millicent Carvalho-Grevious
PhD, ‘00, MSS, ‘05, MLSP, ‘84
Research Associate, GSSWSR
Founder and Executive Director, Pennsylvania Conflict
Resolution & Mediation Services, Inc. (PCRMS)
Tawana Ford Sabbath
PhD, ’86, MSS, ‘71
Manager, Walter E. Sabbath, Jr. Funeral Service

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Millicent’s Background
Training
PhD, MSS & MLSP, Bryn Mawr
College, GSSWSR
Systems Thinker – balancing
Individual and structural change
advocacy and negotiation
Multicultural Cultural Education
Certified Mediator
Over 700 CE Hrs.
Facilitative &Transformative
Community Conferencing
Victim/Offender
Paideia Socratic Seminar
Paideia Socratic Seminar
Critical thinking
Socratic questioning
Train-the-trainer
Mediation & Restorative Justice
Sexual Assault Prevention
Multicultural Facilitation
Experience
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity Trainer
Diversity dialogues
Mediation
Ombudsman
ESGR, National Guard
COSA
Mediator
Special Education,14-yrs.
Penn. Dept. of Education
School, Workplace
Community &
Victim/Offender
EEO, REDRESS, U.S.
Postal Service
Urban Studies & Community
Services
10-yrs. La Salle University
Teaching (Social Work)
Department chair
Associate Professor
Mediation
RJ

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Tawana’s Background
Training
Ph.D., MSS, Mawr College
GSSWSR
Family Therapy Training (1974)
Family Institute of
Phila. and Phila. Child
Guidance Clinic
Grief and Bereavement
Counseling
- Children and Grief
- Cultural Diversity & Loss
Multicultural Education
Spirituality and Social Work
Practice
Structural Family Therapy
Family Dynamics and Death
NABSW Ethics Training
Diversity in the Workplace
Christian Education Training
Experience
Clinical Social Work with
Families and Children, 1971-
1976
Maternal and Child Health Field
Coordinator 1976-1981 – BMC
GSSWSR
Faculty member at Antioch
University Philadelphia, 1981-
1988
Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr
College GSSWSR. 1988-1992
Manager & Co-owner. Walter E.
Sabbath, Jr. Funeral Service,
1992 – present
GSSWSR Black Alumni Group
Coordinator 2009 - present
Community and Professional
Presentations

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© PCRMS all rights reserved.
Part I: An introduction to a relational-cultural framework for
community building that integrates socioeconomic diversity and
inclusion, critical thinking, civility and equity perspectives
• The Paul and Elder Critical Thinking model for
understanding perspectives other than one’s own as well
as checking assumptions, biases and interpretations
Part II: A Diversity dialogue strategy for facilitating diversity
tensions and raising participants’ consciousness of different
perspectives
• A working (evolving) model for actualizing inclusion and
community building
By the End of This Presentation You Will Have:

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Students feel heard, brings loyalty, promotes diversity
and inclusion, and social equity
Everyday Microaggressions are detected and checked
Inclusion—the feeling that one belongs
Supports innovation and decreases stagnation
When We Approach Diversity From a
Relational-Cultural Perspective
Outcomes Improve:
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For more information contact:
Millicent@donthatemediate.com

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References
www.criticalthinking.org (Foundation for Critical Thinking)—to download the free miniature guide to
critical thinking
jbmi.org (Jean Baker Miller Institute, Wellesley College, Relational Cultural Theory)
Carvalho-Grevious, M. (2013). Breaking the cycle of shame: Socratic teaching methods to enhance critical
thinking. Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, 18 (Supplement 1), 77-94.
Ee, J. (2013). "He's an idiot!" experiences of international students in the United States. Journal of International
Students, 3(1), 72-75. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1355441867?accountid=9772
Paul, R., & Elder, L. (2012). The thinker’s guide library: The nature and functions of critical and
creative thinking. Tomales, CA: Foundation for Critical Thinking.
Russell, J. A., Vaughn, M., & Blount, A. (2014). Slaps to the face: KINE graduate students' experiences with
microaggressions. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 85, A103-A104. Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1621829933?accountid=9772
Sue, D. W., Nadal, K. L., Capodilupo, C. M., Lin, A. I., Torino, G. C., & Rivera, D. P. (2008). Racial
microaggressions against Black Americans: Implications for counseling. Journal of Counseling and
Development : JCD, 86(3), 330-338.
Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/219027422?accountid=9772
Wong, G., Derthick, A. O., David, E. J., R., Saw, A., & Okazaki, S. (2014). The what, the
why, and the how: A review of racial microaggressions research in psychology. Race and
Social Problems, 6(2), 181-200. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12552-013-9107-9
Contact information:
Mcarvalh@brynmawr.edu Millicent@donthatemediate.com
tawana@sabbathcare.com © PCRMS all rights reserved