Roots & Rights: Train the Trainer Weekend
Roots & Rights is AFARS’s flagship training programme on anti-racism and racial sensitivity. The Train the Trainer (ToT) weekend is where it all begins, a two-day intensive training designed to equip community leaders, youth organisers, NGO workers, and activists with the knowledge, frameworks, and facilitation skills they need to bring anti-racism education directly into their own communities.
The 17th and 18th April 2026 ToT weekend brought together 16 participants across two days of deep, transformative learning. Guided by expert facilitators Dr Amin and Dr Faith, participants explored the history, architecture and the impact of the social construct of race, the Sycamore Tree Anti-Racism approach , racial sensitivity education and tools, microaggressions, implicit bias. AFARS chairperson Eugene led the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) method for sustainable community organizing and activism in action. The training was grounded throughout in African-centred knowledge and indigenous healing practices, including the Mortar and Pestle grounding exercise and the Ubuntu principle: I am because we are.
Graduates of the ToT are certified to organise their own Roots & Rights workshops and healing circles in their communities across Finland, supported by AFARS with materials, guidance, and funding. Because anti-racism is not a single act — it is many roots growing together over time. If you are ready to bring this work to your community, we want to hear from you.
ToT Day 1 in pictures
TOT Day 2 in pictures
