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dimension and corresponds with this explanatory matrix which are reviewed in the next section

(Table 4.1).

Figures 4.6 and 4.9. Explanatory matrix graphic of the 4 lens perspective. Note: There is a

context dimension also represented as the facilitator’s perspective. It is included mirrored in the

participant matrix because it is a primary driver for the dialogues and therefore part of the context

for co-creating the experience and overall Metasphere (as contributor and process guide). There is

an invisible dimension “encompassing safety and WRECK” and “promoting health and wellness”

which is included in the F role as discussed in the section devoted to the facilitator’s perspective.

The next section will review the Participant Perspective, Process, Conditions and Context:

Context

During the last three Albany CC sessions where active dialogue took place, participants

continued to view one video at the start of each Community Conversation. The short video focused

on the impacts of implicit bias, race issues and discrimination from a historical and scientific

context. At each CC event the opening presenter explored a different aspect of the dynamics of

implicit bias before and after the video before table discussions or breakout groups began talking.

In addition to providing a factual depiction of the systemic underpinnings of race and racial

discrimination, the best video presented information about common assumptions, stereotypes,

myths, and truths corroborated by qualitative and quantitative research data. The last video (session

4) detailed the ways in which race is socially constructed as a means to discriminate against African

Americans and other minorities based on skin color and other physical differences to justify social

inequities and supporting legal structures as natural (California Newsreel, 2003). The three video

segments as a whole described how structures and institutions of power emerged through the

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