Training
Are you looking to learn more about race, diversity, equity, and inclusion?
Our curriculum includes 60 hours of training. We can customize the training for your specific group.
Beginning Our Journey
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An Opening Conversation on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (3 hours)
What do diversity, equity, and inclusion mean, and how does it connect with intersectionality? This workshop creates an intentional, judgment-free space to have an initial conversation about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Learn how we might be able to begin taking practical, everyday actions that work towards dismantling oppression?
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bootcamp (6 hours)
This bootcamp helps you develop the knowledge and skills you need to discuss diversity and understand what it means to be truly inclusive. This includes further developing our self-awareness and exploring the inner work that we absolutely have to do as individuals so that we understand how our own power, privilege, and oppression show up.
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Race, Racism, and Racial Equity
(3 hours)
Conversations about race and racism are often fraught with charged emotions and misunderstandings. We’ll define relevant terms (such as race, racism, bias, prejudice, stereotypes, privilege, etc.), present concrete, examples of varied forms of macro- and micro-aggressions, and explore how specific ways in which race-related inequities exist.
Deepening Our Awareness
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The Culture of Power
(3 hours)
Explore the significant role that the pursuit and hoarding of “power” have played in this society. Learn about the dynamics of how power is cultivated, attained, and maintained by certain groups. Understand how power is honed and subsequently used to marginalize and oppress certain segments of society. Strategize how power might be used to disrupt systemic oppression rather than perpetuate it.
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Dismantling Your Own Bias: The Necessary Steps to Racial Equity
(6 hours)
How does implicit bias contribute to a culture of power? Unpack the implicit biases you hold, learn to recognize them, and how you can begin unlearning the biases you were taught. Walk away with the ability to acknowledge your own biases without shame or judgment. You’ll also assess where you are on the racial justice journey towards dismantling your own biases.
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White Power, White Culture, and White Supremacy (3 hours)
How do white power, white culture, and white supremacy show up in our personal and professional lives? Understand how White power is maintained and achieved both historically and today. Recognize how we may have internalized White supremacy cultural values as our own values. Discuss how these values are embedded into the nonprofit sector and within organizations.
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Owning Our Own Privilege
(3 hours)
We all benefit from some form of privilege, whether it’s earned or unearned. This workshop helps you to better understand the privileges you hold. Identifying privilege is not an exercise of naming and shaming. Rather, it is a power-claiming process that we can use to be in solidarity with marginalized communities.
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Racial Trauma and Radical Healing
(3 hours)
What’s the emotional cost of repeatedly seeing people who look like you targeted, profiled, and attacked? Explore how racial trauma impacts our society, how it manifests at work, and how it frames interpersonal relationships. Learn how to implement radical healing practices so that we can continue our racial equity work.
Taking Action
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We’re Woke, Now What? Creating Anti-Oppression Culture Change
in Nonprofits (3 hours)
Being “woke” isn’t enough. In fact, it can foster complacency and an inability to recognize the continued need for evolution. This workshop will give participants tools to move from awareness (i.e. being woke) to substantive and anti-oppression culture change.
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Creating a Culture of Self-Care and Community Care
(3 hours)
Nonprofit organizations and staff are some of the most susceptible to burnout. While our normal self-care tools (i.e. meditation, journaling, etc.) can help, a lot of us need more than that. Learn about realistic tools and practices that we can implement on a day-to-day basis, including when we’re operating in crisis situations.
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Moving from Allyship to Solidarity
(6 hours)
Far too often, the work of dismantling systems of oppression falls onto marginalized communities. What does it actually mean to be supportive? Learn the skills and tools that will move you from standing with the community to taking purposeful action towards dismantling the structures that continue to foster all types of oppression.
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Racial Equity in the Workforce: How to Hire, Retain, and Motivate Staff
(3 hours)
The way that we hire staff is embedded in White supremacist cultural values. What are some ways that we may not be attracting the right hires and/or setting up barriers that prevent staff with lived experiences from being considered? Learn how you can hire and retain staff using a racial equity lens.
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Diversifying Your
Board of Directors
(6 hours)
Studies indicate that non-profit boards do not reflect the diverse nature of the country. Boards tend to skew white, cisgendermale, and older. This workshop will highlight why diversifying board composition is crucial and ultimately benefits non-profits’ “bottom line”. Participants will identify actionable steps to change board make-up.
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Moving Beyond the Board Matrix
to Achieve Inclusion
(1.5 hours)
How do we move beyond just using a board matrix to really looking at issues of diversity and inclusion? In what ways are organizational practices and expectations of board members unconsciously creating barriers to recruitment and fostering a culture of belonging?
Do you want us to facilitate a workshop for your organization?
We customize our training to each individual organization. The list above is just a sample of our most popularly requested training topics. Get in touch with us, and we’ll see how we can help!