Education Partners
DEI Learning Snippet Facilitated Sessions
Interactive sessions designed to help staff engage in meaningful, safe conversations with colleagues about DEI issues. Using workplace scenarios, each session focuses on the skills and behaviours that lead to effective conversations with colleagues in order to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. Best for groups of 30 or fewer, there are three different sessions available:
- Perspective is Everything (Empathy)
- Creating Psychological Safety
- Moving DEI Conversations Forward
These one-hour sessions created by the Dialectic/Learning Snippets team, are professionally facilitated by Making Change Presenters.
INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP - Three part VILT series
Leading with an Equity Lens – Leadership VILT Series
This workshop series introduces leaders to the core principles of inclusive leadership. Each 90-minute interactive workshop focuses on how leaders can lead through an equity lens to ensure that all employees feel included and welcome in their workplace.
Session 1: Recognizing Oppression
- Understand equity, systemic racism and oppression
- Explore how employee identities are related to workplace outcomes
- Practice recognizing oppression through a case study
Session 2: Responding to Oppression
- Understand the roles of anti-racist allies
- Practice conversation skills for talking about bias and inequity concerns
- Practice skills for effective intervention when biases or inequities arises
Session 3: Impact above Intention – Leading Your Team
- recognizing microaggression in the workplace
- shifting from intention to impact
- responding to microaggressions
Maximum number of participants for each session: 30
White Privilege Workshop by Madelaine Khan
Participants will be provided with an understanding of how white privilege manifests in society, and has shaped their own lived experience. Participants will examine Peggy McIntosh’s work “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (1989) and explore how white privilege has contributed to anti-Black racism. The workshop will conclude with a discussion of how participants can help combat anti-Black racism by standing in solidarity with members of Black communities. This 2 hour workshop or 1 hour introduction is prepared and delivered by Madelaine Khan; co-facilitated by Making Change Presenters.
Maximum number of participants for each session: 30
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Madelaine Khan
Facilitator & Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Consultant