Issues of race, gender, culture, and identity are important to stakeholders.  Getting identity wrong can cost organizations, making it hard to attract new talent, retain diverse teams, and serve clients of all kinds. Approaching inclusion right can supercharge your organization with the talent and company culture it needs to be successful. Give your team the tools and resources they need to begin building a more inclusive organization in this intensive training.

Diversity and inclusion work isn’t just about doing the right thing, it’s also about doing the best thing to make sure your organization is ready for the culture shift taking place in America. Organizations need to develop a clear strategy for navigating cultural change that includes training and education, action plans for every team, and support and resources to execute on those plans. Turn your worries about diversity into a plan forward to making it one of your organizations greatest strengths.

 Let’s chart your path to the future. 

The Navigators Building Belonging All-Staff Workshop Series is designed to prepare your team to thrive through change and expand to enrich your community and contribute to an increasingly inclusive workplace.  Your team will leave with:

  • resources for individuals to learn about diversity and inclusion concepts, getting comfortable with the work of making an inclusive environment
  • tools for building intercultural relationships and improving interpersonal interactions, even around difficult topics.
  • clear actionable steps for teams to craft equitable policies and processes that boost inclusion across the organization
  • clear values around diversity for your organization that help everyone focus on growing together.

Building Belonging Workshop Descriptions

These interactive session will combine learning, dialogue and connecting with colleagues.  Come prepared with questions, opportunities and challenges you’re facing day to day, and a willingness to participate and reflect.

Session 1: Culture, Connection, and Building Belonging

This session will lay the foundation for building. We’ll dig beneath the sometimes-confusing language to clarify diversity, equity, and inclusion and the work each requires to have a healthy culture of belonging. Participants will understand why it is important for fostering a creative community in the studio. We will explore the many facets of sociocultural identity and the layers of culture. Finally we will practice the language and tools for opening up dialogue. 

Session 2: Bias, Power, and Systems

This session will explore the historic and structural layers of culture and the ways that that affects the workplace, ourselves and our world—including our clients.  We’ll look at how systems of power and privilege block belonging in our own day to day environments and think about the opportunities to interrupt inequity and create the connection needed for better working relationships and culturally conscious creative work. We’ll practice interrupting microaggressions–those small but important ways that discrimination shows up in comments and behaviors. Come learn how to make every interaction a chance to be more inclusive.

Session 3: Inclusion and Equity in Action

We may agree that building equity and inclusion in the workplace is essential, but how do we translate commitment into action? This session will help you identify steps you can take in your work, with your team, and with clients and collaborators and get you active in building inclusive environments to improve workplace climate, improve innovation, and fuel connection. We’ll draw on our learning and your real life experiences to test out problem solving and best practices. You will leave clear on what you can do to meet an ongoing commitment to build belonging.

Customize this intensive training to fit your schedule and your teams.  Inquire today to get started.