Facilitating Meaningful Conversations on DEI

Course information

Course title

Facilitating Meaningful Conversations on DEI

Course Content

Facilitating a conversation on DEI requires a lot of knowledge, skill, humility, and a special set of attitudes. Through this journey, we’re going to boost not only your facilitation skills but also your confidence and competence in diving into and facilitating advanced DEI conversations. You’ll also hear from experts who will help you build more arguments on key DEI topics. Some of those conversations we’ll explore are parity, “positive discrimination” vs. positive actions, racism, and power. We’ll also discuss WHY these topics can be so challenging, for others as well as for ourselves.

Feb 1st _ Modul #1: **DEI and Facilitation Essentials **

You will …

• Gain a deep understanding of essential topics like diversity, equality vs. equity, inclusion, belonging and social justice,
• Know how to tailor a business case for DEI in organizations you work with,
• Have started your own toolbox with facilitation methods and techniques.

Feb 8th _ Modul #2: Psychological Safety with Claudia Issa

You will …

• Deepen your understanding of psychological safety,
• Gain tools to create a safe space where people can reflect together on benefits and challenges related to diversity in a workplace,
• Reflect on your own fears, blockers and barriers you experience during challenging conversations.

Feb 15th _ Modul #3: The Hidden Role of Power in DEI and Facilitation with Farzin Farzad

You will

• Learn to recognize the different layers of power present in the audience and in your facilitation
• Gain tools to manage power in the room to facilitate an equitable and inclusive space
• Learn to take your thinking and facilitation from individual to systemic impact

Feb 22nd _ Modul #4: Guest Speaker: Antiracism Work with Joel Brown

You will …

• Understand what antiracism work is,
• Know how to address racism in the workplace,
• Learn how to recognize your own privilege and help others to reflect on it.

Mar 1st _ Modul #5: Working with Conflict

You will…

• See and use conflict as a necessary part of the work
• Learn two established methods (Nonviolent Communication and the Peer Consulting Method) to help work with conflict
• Support your participants in conveying complex ideas and emotions

Takeaways

• Understand the complexity of DEI work in a global context and in matrix organizations.
• Gain knowledge on recent research and data on DEI in the workspace.
• Know how to create opportunities for meaningful conversations to take place.
• Be able to design interactive interventions that are psychologically safe.
• Build a toolbox of techniques and activities for facilitating meaningful conversations.

Training methods

• Facilitation techniques.
• Liberating Structures.
• Collaborative On-line tools

Who is this training for?

DEI consultants and in-house DEI champions who are at the start of their careers and want to expand their practice to facilitate challenging DEI conversations.

Contact us to receive further information about this course.

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