Has your team laid a foundation for racial equity work, but it still feels like you aren’t getting anywhere? If so, it may be worth looking at your team’s container – the conditions that allow teams to actually be together in the work of dismantling white supremacy. Efforts to change organizational policies, practices and structures often fall apart when your team’s relationships are not where they need to be. And unexplored tensions around how power, accountability and other factors operate on your team can cause harm (especially to team members of color) and damage relationships, undermining your team’s work.

This two-part workshop will support participants in building stronger equity containers, so that their teams can work through disagreement and conflict in ways that bring them closer together and closer to transformation.

Outcomes

Participants will come away from this workshop with:

• A framework for assessing and tending to their team’s/organization’s equity container
• Increased knowledge of what an equity container is, why it matters, and how tending to it helps equity work go deeper
• An initial assessment of their team’s and/or organization’s container
• An action plan to build, repair or strengthen their team’s or organization’s container based on learnings from the initial assessment, and
• Day-to-day practices they can bring back to their organizations to help tend to their organizations’ containers.

Audience

This session is tailored for teams and organizations that have laid some basic groundwork for racial equity (e.g., trainings, equity audit) and are looking to translate that groundwork into sustained, transformational change. This workshop should be especially valuable for CEOs, board officers, DEI directors, department directors and team managers. Consultants and professional facilitators may also find value in this offering. Colleagues may opt to attend this workshop in groups of as many as four, but the workshop is designed for individuals. To request a workshop for your team, organization or network, please contact the facilitators directly at tamir@ahimsastrategies.com and niki.jagpal@gmail.com.

Accessibility

Our trainings are hosted on the Zoom video conferencing platform. You will need a computer or mobile device with a camera and microphone, and a quiet place to participate. A desktop computer (rather than cell phone or tablet) is ideal for accessing the training, as it allows the best ease of access to all the features in Zoom.

Trainings are interactive and most include breakout discussions. Please come ready to participate! If this is not possible for you, accommodations can be made by direct messaging the EIC Zoom host at the start of the training. We offer auto-generated closed captions through Zoom. Captions can sometimes be a little glitchy or inaccurate. Please reach out to workshops@equityinthecenter.org if you have accessibility needs or concerns.

Upcoming Workshops and Cost

In April 2022, we adopted a tiered pricing model to align with best practices in equity-focused organizations. We ask that organizations purchasing tickets on behalf of their staff purchase tickets in the tier that aligns with your organizational budget and sector. For individuals purchasing tickets for themselves, we ask that those with greater privilege purchase tickets at the higher end, which allows individuals with historically less access to wealth, disproportionately BIPOC folks, to pay the lower fees.

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