I first had the call to develop the first Beyond Diversity 101 Intensive after some 10 years or so of working as a diversity workshop facilitator.  I was beginning to see a disturbing pattern in myself and in my fellow trainers.  When we facilitators measured "success" during and after a workshop, it was frequently by a yardstick which correlated to the following: on one side, how guilty had the white folks—especially white men—been made to feel; and on the other side, had the people of color, women or some other designated oppressed group gotten sufficiently in touch with their pain and expressions of anger?

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