Episode 139: Building a Multiracial Liberation Movement through a Polarity Lens with Beth Applegate

In this episode, we talk with our special guest Beth Applegate about building a multiracial liberation movement through a polarity lens.

Beth is the founder of Applegate Consulting Group (ACG), a woman-owned organizational development (OD) practice with three decades of experience with national and international not-for-profit organizations, academic institutions, and governmental agencies.

She identifies as an Applied Behavioral Science scholar-practitioner positioned to bring to the forefront the tradition of inquiry and dialogue to the service of social justice and healthy individuals, groups, and organizations in the world.

We discuss “Chapter 5: Support and Challenge – For You and Me” that she authored in the Volume 2 book collated by Barry Johnson, which talks about building a multiracial liberation movement by using a polarity lens and how to apply it to ourselves as anti-racist white people.

We also talk about the implications of having EITHER/OR thinking and how a polarity lens inviting AND/BOTH thinking is critical to multiracial liberation.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

08:50 - Why Beth wrote Chapter 5: Support and Challenge – For You and Me

11:49 - The definition of whiteness

15:37 - About her goal in writing Chapter 5

18:53 - About the implications of having an EITHER/OR mindset

27:15 - Why it’s important to co-create new systems and generate radical possibilities for equity

33:57 - About her commitment to having an “anti-racist personal practice” herself

46:22 - Some advice for healthcare leaders

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Best Way to Reach Beth Applegate:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethapplegate/

Link to the pdf version of Chapter 5: Support And Challenge - for You and Me.

Link to published book: And: Volume Two – Applications

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