Bridging Dialogue for Change™: A Session on Core Conflict Mediation Skills
This workshop is a hands-on introduction to our Bridging Dialogue for Change™ (BDC) program. Together, we will explore conflict identification, active listening, and problem-solving orientations, with real-world applications to post-election tensions and rising global conflicts.
Hope Rising: Anchors & Sanctuaries Year-End Healing Circle
Engage in a restorative session rooted in mindfulness and community as we process the challenges of 2024 and look ahead with hope and renewal to 2025.
Free Workshop: Building and Maintaining Healthy Workplace Relationships During the 2024 Elections and Global Uncertainty
This workshop is focused on how to work and live in a multiracial democracy. As the 2024 elections approach and global conflicts intensify, tensions and divisions can seep into our workplaces, impacting relationships and communication. For professionals committed to fostering inclusion, it's critical to cultivate healthy relationships that honor our collective humanity—even during these challenging times. This workshop will equip you with tools to maintain respect, empathy, and understanding in your interactions with coworkers, helping you navigate political and global complexities.
Affinity Leadership Healing Circles
Everyday you can easily find examples of political influences, polarizing work environments, & general behaviors and language that is disheartening and even dehumanizing to many identities. Our mission is to provide a sanctuary where individuals can experience love and care within a sacred community. We invite you to honor and respect these sacred communities by signing up for the identities that resonate with you.
How to Work & Live in a Multiracial Democracy (Social Impact Edition)
We invite Social Impact and Services professionals to join our FREE workshop, How to Work & Live in a Multiracial Democracy. Amidst global unrest, widespread protests, and rising anti-DEI sentiments, social impact professionals are facing immense challenges. We want to bring you back to the foundational basics of honoring our collective humanity.
This workshop is a vulnerable space for social impact professionals—nonprofit executives, community organizers, activists, scholarship coordinators, and fellowship leaders—to come together, learn strategies to bridge understanding, unlearn harmful messages about differences, and share micro-actions that can create a ripple effect to change the culture of our organizations and communities.
Join us to learn how to foster respect and inclusion in your daily interactions and decision-making processes, and help transform your institution into a more just and equitable space.
How to Work & Live in a Multiracial Democracy (Higher Ed Edition)
We invite Higher Education professionals to join our FREE workshop, How to Work & Live in a Multiracial Democracy. With the current unrest on campuses, protests fueled by the war, and rising anti-DEI sentiments in higher education, we want to bring us back to the foundational basics of honoring our collective humanity.
This workshop is a vulnerable space for higher education professionals to come together, learn strategies to bridge understanding, name and unlearn the harmful messages we’ve learned about differences, and share micro actions that can create a ripple effect to change the culture of our academic communities.
Join us to learn how to foster respect and inclusion in your daily interactions and decision-making processes, and help transform your institution into a more just and equitable space.
Strategies for Leveraging Assessment to Advance Equity
Our final webinar focused on how to create a basic assessment process and use it to advance equity. We also shared strategies for leveraging data to advance equity and how to navigate individuals/personalities that detract from using the data.
What to do When I Acted with Racism + I’m a Bystander to Racism, and I Survived an Act of Racism
Join us for a discussion about what to do when you’ve acted with racism, what to do when you've survived an act of racism, and how to intervene when you witness racism.
Strategies for Leading Equity during Incredulous Times
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed about how to act and lead in these uncertain times. Join us for a discussion on learning how to exist in ways that honor our individual and collective humanity, and how to teach and lead self and others through social justice in the midst of polarization and fear.
Sustaining Inclusive Work Environments
Building off of our August webinar on creating inclusive work environments, Part 2 focused on sustaining inclusive work environments. Our moderator, Dr. Annice E. Fisher, summarized core concepts from August's Creating Inclusive Work Environments webinar.
Our panelists built on these concepts by: discussing structures for creating and sustaining inclusive work environments, leading by example for inclusion, sharing their specific experiences, and explaining how to navigate instances that foster exclusion rather than inclusion.
Creating Inclusive Work Environments
Join us for a discussion about creating inclusive work environments. In this free webinar, our moderator (Dr. Annice E. Fisher) defined inclusion in the workplace and shared tangible outcomes of inclusion. Dr. Fisher also shared parameters for creating an inclusive workplace. Our panelists shared their experiences and the concrete strategies they’ve used to build inclusive workplaces.
Leading for Antiracism and Equity: Racial Incident Happened - Pathways to Healing
Join us for Part 2 to learn how to handle a racial incident. We must act with urgency, with thoughtfulness, and with a desire to shift our environments to honor everyone’s humanity, regardless of their race.
Leading for Antiracism and Equity: Racial Incident Happened - Now What (Part 1)
Join us to learn how we simplify, magnify, and dignify the process for racial healing and reconciliation. We must act with urgency, with thoughtfulness, and with a desire to shift our environments to honor everyone’s humanity, regardless of their race.
Leading for Antiracism & Equity: Anchors for Holding Steady
Join us to learn how we coach people to celebrate wins, deal with resistance, keep the momentum, and sustain your joy and peace in pursuit of advancing equity. You’ll leave with our K.I.A. framework and anchor strategies for you and your team/organization.
Leading for Antiracism and Equity: Data Informed Decision Making
This session focused on leading for equity and integrating data to inform the change process. We shared a protocol for thinking about new and existing data, and case examples of how we have collaborated with our partners to use data to drive equity-based change at multiple levels.
Leading for Antiracism and Equity: Overcoming Everyday Roadblocks
This session covers the top 5 roadblocks to advancing equity and how to overcome them. This month's guest and DCC partner, LatinxEd's Executive Director and Co-Founder Elaine Utin discussed how their team overcame their everyday roadblocks to launch the State of North Carolina’s first-ever report on the State of Education for Latinos in North Carolina.