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).
✺ Strategic Prioritization + Sacrifice
June 21, ‘24 - 10:00-11:30 am PT / 1:00-2:30 pm ET
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.
✺ The Anatomy of Communicating a Hard Decision
July 12, ‘24 - 10:00-11:30 am PT / 1:00-2:30 pm ET
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.
✺ Relationship to Power
August 30, ‘24 - 10:00-11:30 am PT / 1:00-2:30 pm ET
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.
✺ The Conflict Quad
Rescheduled:
Oct 18, ‘24: 10:00-12:00pm PT / 1:00-3:00pm ET
There are no greater differences across cultures and people than their relationship to conflict. Conflict avoidance manifests itself as easily in dominance strategies that keep people in fear from unearthing conflict as it does with people deeply afraid of engaging in negotiating conflict. This session encourages a strategic relationship with friction and positions conflict as an opportunity for more deeply understanding beliefs, strategies, and systems dysfunctions.
✺ Internalized Misogyny and Public Expectations of Emotional Labor
October 3, ‘24 - 10:00-12:00 pm PT / 1:00-3:00 pm ET
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. This session ties these behaviors to an American logi
✺ Anti-Blackness for non-Black leaders
October 11, ‘24- 10:00-12:00 pm PT / 1:00-3:00 pm ET
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.
✺ Beliefs & Values
November 15, ‘24 - 10:00-12:00 pm PT / 1:00-3:00 pm ET
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.
FAQ
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We will close registration 48 hours before the online training is scheduled to start.
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We will not be releasing recordings of these trainings due to the often personal reflections that happen during the course of the training.
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Our max capacity is 20 people per session at this time.
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We do not have a waitlist at this ti e. Subscribe to our mailing list for updates. We will announce when we have new trainings up on our Instagram page.
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We have online sessions scheduled once a month, if there’s a demand we will try to increase the number of sessions each month. Subscribe to our mailing list for updates.
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The online training is done live on zoom. A zoom link will be emailed in advance of the training. These sessions are facilitated and require heavy participation from those who register.
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The minimum enrollment is 5 participants, less than 5 participants will result in class cancellation.