Training and consulting to create more dynamic and inclusive work environments for teams and clients in which people of different racial and other intersecting identities experience equitable outcomes.
Racial Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Training
Purpose:
To develop awareness, common language, conceptual frameworks, and normalize conversation to analyze and address racial equity, diversity, and inclusion challenges
Key Service Deliverables
- Normalize personal introspection and conversation about important equity concepts and challenges
- Identify key barriers to an inclusive and equitable workplace
- Explore a framework of core REDI principles and practices
- Actively engage in dynamic, impact-oriented professional development
- Consider applications and accountability for acquired knowledge and tools
- Workshop duration: Standard 3-hour training divided into 2 virtual sessions
Training Series Overview – Normalizing Phase #1: Racial Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Foundations
EDI Mindfulness Training #1:
Racial Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Strategic Framing
- Key distinctions of equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Strategic approaches to equity, diversity, and inclusion work
- Intentional anti-racism and intersectionality
EDI Mindfulness Training #2:
Intersectionality: Power & Privilege in Workplace Culture
- How our positions of privilege can perpetuate inequities
- Traits of a dominating workplace culture
- Culture change with racial equity, diversity, and inclusion principles
EDI Mindfulness Training #3:
Countering Bias in People and Practices
- Key attributes of bias and triggers
- How bias reinforces structural inequity
- Individual and institutional unconscious bias interventions
EDI Mindfulness Training #4:
Decision Making with a Racial Equity Lens
- Why: Decision making with a racial equity lens
- What: Essential attributes of a racial equity lens
- How: Application in decision making scenarios
Assessment & Advising
Purpose:
To equip leaders, create a roadmap, and move towards a sustainably equitable, diverse and inclusive organization
Key Service Deliverables
- Leadership Preparation
- Prepare organizational leaders to model principles and practices of racial equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Organizational climate assessment
- Review and analysis of organizational culture, processes, policies, and communications impacting equity, diversity, and inclusion outcomes
- Identification of historical context of inequities relevant to project work, and of necessary supports and resources to launch a strategic plan
- Organizational course-setting
- Defining guiding purpose
- Identifying equity-centered essential proximate goals and desired outcomes
- Strategic planning
- Guiding equity lens principles of EDI Mindfulness
- Inputs from inclusive and equitable dialogue with most impacted stakeholders
- Recommended stakeholder-informed strategic organizational objectives, guiding policy, and coordinated actions
- Methods for measurement of progress and accountability
- Implementation strategies utilizing an intersectional racial equity lens
- Guidance for ongoing decision-making and action planning to transform organizational policies and protocols to become more sustainably equitable
Impact Orientation
EDI Mindfulness Consulting will provide you with the tools to assess, design, and implement strategic planning for a thriving organization that embraces the assets of a racially equitable, diverse, and inclusive infrastructure, resulting in:
- A heightened sense of shared purpose and innovation in a diverse workforce
- Decision-making with more consistently equitable outcomes
- Vibrant internal workplace culture
- Strong relationships with a diverse range of external stakeholders and communities