Class One: Foundations

Personal and social identities: what yours are and how they impact how you relate to co-workers, clients and partners
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

Class Two: Oppression at Work

Identify and navigate through the four levels of oppression
Recognizing microaggressions and understanding their cost on individuals, teams and organizations. Ways to mitigate and disrupt them
Beyond EEOC, how to write and live Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statements that matter

Class Three: Cultivating a Deeper Analysis and Network Building for Impact

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. How to create transformative relationships not transactional ones.

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 and POC Roundtable

This session serves as an opportunity for participants who identify as white or as POC to have their own spaces to debrief their DIA experience.

Social Justice Intensive

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