Class One: Foundations

The cycle of socialization
Key terms and why they are important when you are trying to do this work
Discover what your hidden biases are, and six ways to mitigate them
Personal and social identities: what yours are and how they impact how you relate to co-workers, clients and partners

Class Two: Oppression at Work

Identify and navigate through the four levels of oppression
Recognize everyday microaggressions and understand why it’s important to listen more and speak less when embracing diversity and inclusion
How to write and live Diversity and Inclusion Statements that matter

Class Three: Cultivating a Deeper Analysis and Networks

How dominant culture (with an emphasis on white supremacy) manifests within our professional lives and businesses
How to build networks (online and off) and hiring pipelines with intention that prioritize diversity

Class Four: Handling Conflict

Strategies for recognizing and dealing with resistance to change and how to have difficult conversations effectively -especially around identity (race, class, gender, etc)
How to apologize when you or your company messes up

Class Five: Infusing Equity Across Your Business

In this class, everything you have learned will be woven together to look at recruitment, hiring, promotion processes, marketing and strategic planning from an inclusion, equity and anti-oppression lens:
Q & A and wrap up

Optional: Whiteness Roundtable

This session serves as an opportunity for participants who identify as white to debrief and discuss ways to hold each other accountable to creating and sustaining and actively anti-racist organizations/businesses.

equity at work

Programs and training to help us get free, together.