TRAININGS OFFERED VIRTUALLY AND IN-PERSON
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Cultivating Cultural Humility: Examining Biases and Identity (2.5-6 hours)
Cultivating Cultural Humility: Examining Biases and Identity (2.5-6 hours)
Cultivating Cultural Humility: Examining Biases and Identity (2.5-6 hours)
Every one of us was raised in various social environments that informed us about our own identities and the identities of others, including skin color, body size, sexual and gender identity, socioeconomic class, and other cultural identities that impact our lives.
Cultural humility describes an ongoing process of curiosity and inquiry, quite different from the concept of cultural "competence." This Cultural Humility DEI training provides participants with opportunities to reflect on how our cultural identities - and what we were told about them, both overtly and subtly - impact our unconscious and implicit biases. Having the courage to explore our own cultural identities and gently excavate the biases we learned helps to ensure that our communication and behavior are consistent with our values and demonstrate a sense of respect for all with whom we interact.
LGBTQIA+: Understanding Sexual and Gender Identities (3-6 hours)
Cultivating Cultural Humility: Examining Biases and Identity (2.5-6 hours)
Cultivating Cultural Humility: Examining Biases and Identity (2.5-6 hours)
The question is no longer whether we will have LGBTQIA+ co-workers, students or clients, but whether we are adequately prepared to serve these members of our communities knowledgeably and respectfully. This dynamic, informative training will explain in plain language exactly what it means to identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgender, cisgender, intersex, non-binary, asexual and gender-queer, among other identities. Participants will leave with increased understanding of sexual and gender identities and how to be an ally and an advocate through language and action.
"Did You Really Just Say That?": Addressing Biased Language (2-3.5 hours)
Cultivating Cultural Humility: Examining Biases and Identity (2.5-6 hours)
"Did You Really Just Say That?": Addressing Biased Language (2-3.5 hours)
A great way to start an honest conversation around diversity and inclusion! There is language our clients, co-workers or students use that can provoke a potent response in us. This brief, solution-focused training seeks to help participants better understand the ways we respond when someone uses language we perceive as offensive; to evaluate environmental factors when deciding how we respond; to increase our awareness of our own verbal triggers, and to provide solutions for engaging in "confrontation without humiliation:" responding in ways that honor our own boundaries without shaming the speaker.
Facing Racism: Becoming an Anti-Racist Advocate (3.5-6 hours)
Diversity in the Workplace: One Agency, Many Cultures (3-6 hours)
"Did You Really Just Say That?": Addressing Biased Language (2-3.5 hours)
“If not now, when?” – Hillel the Elder
There is no better time than the present to understand racism and its toxic effects on all of us, regardless of our skin color. But we cannot confront what we don't know how to discuss. This honest, informative DEI training provides the knowledge, language, and tools to boldly and productively address issues of race, racism, and skin color privilege.
In a respectful, safe environment, we will have honest conversations about the socially-constructed meanings of skin color and race, and the resulting impact of racism in the United States. Our work will address the ways systemic and personal racism affect how have been conditioned to perceive people who are not represented in our own families, neighborhoods, or social circles. Finally, and most importantly, we will work together to find solutions that enable us to debunk and dismantle structural and individual racism within the organization and within ourselves.
*Trainer’s note: I am a white-European woman who cannot and does not speak for people of color. This training is targeted (but not limited) to other white-Europeans who want a deeper understanding of race and racism without asking our friends or colleagues of color to educate us.
Diversity in the Workplace: One Agency, Many Cultures (3-6 hours)
Diversity in the Workplace: One Agency, Many Cultures (3-6 hours)
Diversity in the Workplace: One Agency, Many Cultures (3-6 hours)
This DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) training helps foster environments that are welcoming and supportive of individuals from a vast array of cultures, including but not limited to skin color, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, religion, body size, citizenship, ability and age. Our identities and experiences impact the lens through which we see ourselves and each other: this workshop seeks to assist participants in becoming more clear regarding those identities, how they impact our own behaviors, values and biases, and how to create a workplace that allows everyone to feel valued and welcome.
GenderSense: Demystifying Gender Identity (1.5-3 hours)
Diversity in the Workplace: One Agency, Many Cultures (3-6 hours)
Diversity in the Workplace: One Agency, Many Cultures (3-6 hours)
Gender identity is an integral part of each of us that we may or may not ever have considered. One of the reasons gender can be confusing is our lack of understanding about the ways that we are taught about and "perform" gender every single day. This training will clarify the differences between sex and gender, bring cultural binary-gender expectations out into the open, discuss the social impact of ideas regarding masculinity and femininity, and arrive at a level of ease and fluency with regard to understanding and talking about gender expression and identity.
For immediate support: Trans Lifeline https://translifeline.org/
Additional Training Topics
Self-Care: Preventing Burnout and Vicarious Trauma - 3 hours
This training provides an opportunity for service providers to receive some of the care and understanding they give so generously to clients, in a safe and respectful atmosphere that enhances participation and authenticity. We will discuss the potential for vicarious trauma as a result of working with clients in distress; use various approaches to evaluate stress, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout, and discuss approaches to self-care. This training is highly interactive and experiential, providing participants with concrete, practical tools to use going forward in order to develop a greater awareness of how stress manifests and how to compassionately care for ourselves when we experience it.
Teen Suicide: Prevention, Detection and Intervention - 3-4 hours
This interactive training faces a topic that can feel overwhelming to many caregivers and service providers: the very real risks of adolescent suicide. The combination of developmental stage, rapid hormonal changes, and self-esteem extremes put this age group at greater risk for suicide than any other, yet there are also very concrete and protective ways of providing support to teens who may be at risk for self-harm. By the close of the workshop, participants will have a deeper understanding of adolescent emotional development; potential warning signs and risk factors for suicide risk; and concrete, practical interventions to provide the best chances for the adolescent’s survival through such a transforming and challenging time.
If you or someone you know are considering self-harm, consider contacting the 988 lifeline: https://988lifeline.org/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=onebox
Suicide and Crisis Helpline