How do you get people to address problems that create conflict and still remain involved in collaborative problem-solving?
	How do you create a learning environment that encourages people to see their own potential to affect the world around them?

This site responds to these questions with examples from several learning environments and includes practical ideas from our experiences as teachers and participants in workplace, community and classroom settings. We discuss setting up and running a multi-racial learning community in seminars that discuss race and gender, large law school classes, police training programs, and community advocacy groups. We identify operating principles that are relevant to all of these settings. The law school overview describes specific activities that educators, students and community groups can use outside of a law school, in high school or college courses and community organizations as well. We provide resources for more information and a place to share your experiences.

Our video documentary titled RACETALK: COLLABORATION THROUGH CONVERSATION (1996), chronicles how a law school seminar builds trust, deals with controversy, fosters constructive conflict, and transforms participants into effective problem solvers. Another video titled POLICE AND KIDS OF COLOR: BUILDING COMMUNITY BRIDGES THROUGH THEATER explores these ideas in the context of a police academy.

This website also suggests supplementary resources for those seeking to experiment with building multi-racial learning communities. We include print-friendly PDF files with more detailed information for law school classrooms, police training programs, and other multi-racial learning communities.