Our workshops offer a deeper dive into Cultural Humility.
While all of our engagements are unique and tailored for your organization, we’ve put together a list of some potential “starting points” for our Workshops and engagements. Below are a few examples of the Workshops that we offer throughout the year:
(Re)building and Connecting Communities; Incorporating Cultural Humility in the Land of Steady Habits
(Three 2.5 hour sessions or four 3 hour session)
In this four-part series we will introduce the concept of cultural humility and explore how race and racism affect our daily lives and examine the roles that our communities have held in creating and supporting the institutional racism that we as a nation are currently attempting to dismantle. Using articles, podcasts and video, participants will be encouraged to incorporate the concept of cultural humility as well as new information in their understanding of anti-racism as well as their existing anti-racist work.
(full day workshop, can be broken up into four 90-minute sessions)
In this interactive session participants will be asked to share their own experiences living and working with “difference”. Through experiential group activities and reflective processing, we will move into a facilitated conversation which will allow participants to begin identifying and developing strategies that they are already using to authentically connect with others. As a group we will celebrate our differences and discuss the importance of both inclusion and affinity spaces. The goal of this session is to help participants identify ways in which our identities contribute to our ability to “do the work” personally as well as professionally.
(This is a full day training and is intended for participants somewhat familiar with the concept of cultural humility. Specific content will be developed prior to the workshop based on the stated needs and concerns of the organization.)
In this interactive workshop participants will explore how their own identities and cultures affect their workplace interactions.
Participants will be asked to share their questions and concerns, which will be addressed during the first half of the presentation, followed by facilitated conversations with action steps designed to help develop strategies to employ when interpersonal or intercultural conflicts arise. The goal of this session is to help participants identify and navigate their personal beliefs while committing to their responsibilities as a member of a larger community as well as offer concrete actions to incorporate into their current work culture.
(This is a half day workshop designed specifically for direct care staff/employees who work with diverse populations)
Our nation is currently experiencing a cultural shift that many of us are not fully prepared for. While many of us want ‘change’, we are realizing that we not all fully prepared to utilize our own unique gifts and talents in the workplace, nor have we figured out how to ‘bring our whole selves’ to our jobs.
This workshop is designed for a workgroup or team and asks participants to push themselves out of their comfort zones and into a Brave Space where, as a group, we will begin the work of sharing and humbly meeting at our intersections in order to authentically and appropriately support clients, co-workers and staff within the context of the agencies stated values.
(This is a Queer focused 90 minute introductory presentation/workshop to introduce the concepts of cultural humility, Brave Space vs. Safe Space and the necessity of bringing your authentic self to the workplace.)
American attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ community have and continue to shift, as has language around sexuality and gender. New words have been born; other words have changed meanings and usages, and depending on age, race, gender, socio-economic status, region etc., what is acceptable for one demographic may be insulting to others. Add to this the important concept of intersectionality and many of us are feeling left out of these conversations; a conversation that we may feel that we may not have the vocabulary for. As we shift away from “cultural competence” to the more culturally aware practice of becoming culturally humble citizens, it is time to examine how our own upbringing and beliefs affect how we work with and interact with those who are different from us and our families.
This session will introduce new concepts and vocabulary and allow participants to ask and wrestle with the questions that they may not have felt comfortable asking or that they didn’t even realize they had.