
Online Public Sessions
The public session workshop format provides an opportunity for us to examine skills and habits that benefit from being discussed candidly. These sessions allow people to explore these topics outside of their primary work communities. These sessions cover the skills we find necessary for the development of healthy MRC’s (multiracial and multicultural institutions).
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Strategic Prioritization and Sacrifice
While we understand strategic prioritization to some extent, we often do not understand how strategic sacrifices go hand in hand. We don’t have a language for articulating those sacrifices and what it means to metabolize the grief of those sacrifices. This session works to support leaders in gaining a framework for both. We connect how you go from making the sacrifices you are comfortable with to the sacrifices that further your aspirations through strategy.
Class Date: February 7th, 2025
1:00-3:00pm ET / 10:00am-12:00pm PT -
Management Boundaries in Times of Trauma
This course helps participants understand their fears and reactions in difficult moments so they can be intentional in their management choices. We discuss boundaries and norms that can support a team during times of high durress. We discuss and strategize about the role of grief in management and how to communicate boundaries in a way that invites vs shuts down impactful relationships.
Class Date: March 14th, 2025
1:00-3:00pm ET / 10:00am-12:00pm PT -
Relationship to Power
Humans tend to circle through three different relationships to power - trophy, spatula, and enemy. In multicultural organizations trophy and enemy have been ways we learned to manage power to survive really brutal labor environments. This session helps teams analyze the costs and benefits of each, the behaviors associated with each relationship, and how we can move from relating to power in these ways incidentally/reactively to being intentional and strategic in our relationship to power.
Class Date: April 4th, 2025
1:00-3:00pm ET / 10:00am-12:00pm PT -
Strategic Prioritization and Sacrifice
While we understand strategic prioritization to some extent, we often do not understand how strategic sacrifices go hand in hand. We don’t have a language for articulating those sacrifices and what it means to metabolize the grief of those sacrifices. This session works to support leaders in gaining a framework for both. We connect how you go from making the sacrifices you are comfortable with to the sacrifices that further your aspirations through strategy.
Class Date: May 16th, 2025
1:00-3:00pm ET / 10:00am-12:00pm PT -
Anti-Blackness for non-Black Leaders
Anti-Blackness is an American institution. We are often unaware of the many ways in which we have ingested anti-Black sentiment or behaviors. This session gives language to anti-Black behaviors and how they manifest themselves not just in white people, but also in people of color. We do an overview of how those behaviors play out, where you may be able to recognize your own complicity in manifesting them, what it means to truly support Black leaders and leadership.
Class Date: June 13th, 2025
1:00-3:00pm ET / 10:00am-12:00pm PT -
Internalized Misogyny and Public Expectations of Emotional Labor
This session tackles some of the most pernicious and common manifestations of misogyny and asks us to reflect on our own relationships to these behaviors. We do an overview of how those behaviors play out, where you may be able to recognize your own complicity in manifesting them, what it means to truly support women leaders and leadership and why our own recognition and rejection of these practices is critical to doing justice infused work.
Class Date: August 1st, 2025
1:00-3:00pm ET/10am-12:00pm PT -
The Anatomy of Communicating a Hard Decision
Many of our organizations struggle with decision making. The popular frameworks for decision making of the day often tackle the challenge of executing a decision and clear roles for that. This training works on how you get to a decision in the first place. Identifying latent decisions is a competency and often the people at the senior management level have honed going from watching to acting.
Class Date: September 13th, 2025
1:00-3:00pm ET / 10am-12:00pm PT -
Beliefs and Values
How do you develop your own values so that you are able to distinguish between acting as an organization actor and out of your own preferences? This session asks participants to create their own north star to gain clarity on the tradeoffs they make to participate in community. In this session we will process and reflect about what it means to avoid codependency with an institution and make choices that honor your beliefs and priorities.
Class Date: October 17th, 2025
1:00-3:00pm ET / 10am-12:00pm PT -
Relationship to Power
Humans tend to circle through three different relationships to power - trophy, spatula, and enemy. In multicultural organizations trophy and enemy have been ways we learned to manage power to survive really brutal labor environments. This session helps teams analyze the costs and benefits of each, the behaviors associated with each relationship, and how we can move from relating to power in these ways incidentally/reactively to being intentional and strategic in our relationship to power.
Class Date: November 14th, 2025
1:00-3:00pm ET / 10am-12:00pm PT