Workshops
Build your organization's capacity to support equity and liberation in your work with workshops designed and led by our experienced facilitators.
Looking to explore another topic? Interested in an ongoing series? Contact us to create your custom workshop.
Available Workshops
Governance Essentials
Paul Taylor
he/him
We work with board members and senior leaders to identify appropriate governance models for their organization, then collaboratively identify effective governance processes, policies, and systems that are aligned with the desired model. Our governance training uses an equity framework to help boards navigate challenges and opportunities, while providing members with the tools they need to fully engage in strategic discussions and organizational decision-making.
Group / Organizational Narrative Analysis
Chiyi Tam
she/her
A structured analysis of your group or organization's story of self as an alternative to a typical SWOT analysis. Often used as a basis for regeneration, rebranding, visioning, and strategic planning processes.
Mapping Our Path:
Anti-Oppression 101
Chiyi Tam
she/her
An introductory training with an emphasis on implementing a core anti-oppression framework into everyday actions and organizational policy analysis. Includes multiple individual and group reflection exercises.
Teaching & Facilitating with Neurodiversity in Mind
Kate Klein
they/them
Explore essential practices when teaching towards learner complexity and neurodiversity, Using your own 'sticky' teaching and facilitation practices as a jumping off point, we will explore how these practices might be received by different kinds of learners. We will then brainstorm how to make these practices more accessible for neurodivergent learners without leaving our own needs as facilitators behind.
Confronting White Supremacy
Mojdeh Cox
she/her
Through individual reflection and intention-setting, small group discussions and interactive exercises, participants will explore how white supremacy culture presents and is upheld in their workplace, and navigate antidotes to those characteristics to actively work towards dismantling it. Consideration has been given for how BIPOC colleagues will interact with this workshop safely and with impact.
Culturally Safe Service, Work and Governance Environments
Mercy Ayesha Alohan-Eke
they/she
Participants will learn to critically view how culture is perceived by exploring concepts understanding what cultural safety looks like and understanding the misconceptions of cultural safety and the overall concept of safety. How to recognize unsafe and safer spaces by engaging sensitively with anti-racist, anti-oppression frameworks to ultimately learn to create safer spaces in service, work, and governance environments.
Self-Care and Mutual Aid
Chiyi Tam
she/her
Do you know the difference between self-care and self-soothing? Between mutual aid and systemic care? Hone your ability to respond to difficult interpersonal moments and broader oppressive policies at the right scale, with greater clarity of mind.
Storytelling for Nonprofit Organizations
Kate Fane
she/her
Your work is always changing to respond to your community. So should your stories. This hands-on workshop will explore how to use narrative to connect with your audience, build support for your mission, and ethically communicate your organization’s impact.
Instilling DEI Principles
and Practices For Boards
Kais Padamshi
he/him
Equip and empower your board with DEI terminology and methodologies for developing and implementing measurable goals for organizational and stakeholder impact. In conjunction with DEI introductory terms outlined by evidence-based research, participants will also engage in several activities designed to build DEI-related capacity on recruitment, program, policy, and administrative level strategies.
Engaging on Gender Diversity
Kain Nathaniel
he/they
Kain speaks to groups of all ages about their own trans experiences and encourage people to relate those experiences to their own lives and community—regardless of gender identity or sexuality. They specialize in giving people tools to create inclusive spaces in their homes, schools and workplaces by not just telling them a list of “what not to do”, but how they can positively make changes to their language and environment.
Four Strategic Logics Towards Abolition
Chiyi Tam
she/her
A deeply exploratory workshop space using several major frameworks for liberatory practice as sources of inspiration, for participants to experiment with imagining what they could look like when implemented in their fields of practice.
Complexity-Centred Teaching & Facilitation:
Kate Klein
they/them
An anti-oppressive facilitation practice acknowledges that one-size-fits-all approaches usually only benefit those whose minds, bodies, and identities are normalized in our society. But if there are as many needs as there are people, is it even possible to 'get it right'? This workshop will explore facilitating towards participant complexity, with a particular focus on neurodiversity.
Working with School Wounds... Learners' and our Own
Kate Klein
they/them
Learn about the origins and implications of some common wounds that are incurred by school, with a particular focus on thinking about how our own possible school wounds show up in our work as adult educators, facilitators, and knowledge workers. What do we do when the ghosts of our own schooling history visits us as teachers? How can we be responsible for how we act when old stuff arises for us, while holding compassion for our wounded selves?