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Our Workshops
Anti-Oppression
Understanding & Applying Anti-Oppression
Understanding equity in practice. Engaging in conversations around common language and terms aligned with anti-oppression, anti-racism and inclusion. Uncovering our own motivations to incite positive actions through each of our own avenues of access.
Applying Cultural Competency into Everyday Practices & Decisions
Have the opportunity to explore and understand the importance of cultural competency in thought processes, decision making and the adjacent actions that follow. Grow confidence in using anti-oppressive and anti-racist practices as stable pillars to guide decision-making processes that align with equity-seeking groups. Have the opportunity to submit your questions about justice, equity, access, inclusion and diversity ahead of the session and be prepared to engage in vulnerable conversations.
Understanding & Managing Unconscious Bias
Explore the two systems of thinking connected to unconscious bias. From common biases in the workplace to the impact of microaggressions at work, reflect and discuss how common biases show up in the workplace. Next, uncover 7 ways to manage bias and allyship, discussing key action items for your growth in how to manage unconscious bias and support allyship. Participants will take away a three-step commitment/action plan for developing this muscle and contributing to an inclusive environment.
Inclusivity in the Arts: Positionality, Approach & Arts Equity
Identifying how implicit bias plays into our everyday assumptions and exploring how over the past decades, our approaches towards differences in people have altered. Reflecting on how we effectively create inclusion in the arts through responsive community programming.
Applying Anti-Oppression in Film/TV
Examining power dynamics in commercial production. Through conversations, encourage thinking through scenarios that can be encountered and how we can intervene for positive change. How to create a more inclusive and authentic work environment for everyone.
Enacting Decolonization as Activism
Increase your knowledge of the historical and current harms that are facing First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in Canada/Turtle Island. Through an Indigenous perspective, understand the parameters and considerations necessary for effective allyship and ensure that your approach aligns with powerful Indigenous knowledge and decolonial-centred practices.
Anti-Oppression When Working with Creative Youth
Explore effective ways in which to apply anti-oppression as a lens and tool when collaborating with diverse youth in a community setting. Emphasis is placed on how the arts can be used as an accessible and useful teaching tool to explore critical equity concepts in an accessible and engaging way, through your role as a facilitator and space holder.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
How to Implement & Measure An Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Plan
Defining equity, diversity and inclusion, as it relates to our community work. Discussing the value of EDI and identifying how to identify metrics to evaluate outcomes & measure progress. Looking at critical questions to consider when creating an EDI brief, including internal capacity.
Equity and Inclusion in Community Facilitation
Explore historical contexts to consider when serving equity-seeking communities. Reflect on the different approaches to differences over the past 50 years, and assimilate practical tools and approaches to apply to community facilitation by examining 5 key practices to aid and guide your approach to community-based programming.
Understanding Equity Related to Immigrant Women
Gain an overview useful of common equity-based language and explore with discussion, how this can directly affect/apply to immigrant women. Exploring common microaggressions that immigrants face, and how to identify and interrupt them. Review and discuss current research to identify and discuss the current key issues that are facing immigrant women in Canada, through an intersectional lens.
Community Engagement
How to Effectively Work with Communities Through An Equity Lens
Discuss how to be a thoughtful community collaborator, and project-maker and make positive transformations in diverse communities. Through exploring 5 key practices, ideas and processes are uncovered that inspire more effective and meaningful community engagement.
Volunteer Leadership & Engagement in Non-Profit
Reflect on and identify the traits of an effective leader, while examining the different ways in which leadership is demonstrated in a variety of domains. Discuss key strategies to consider for effective inclusion and appreciation of volunteers.
Respectful Collaboration & Allyship with Indigenous Communities
Uncover approaches to building a respectful and reciprocal relationship with Indigenous communities, when you are non-Indigenous collaborators. Uncovering the historical context of colonization in Canada and the effects on Indigenous sovereignty. Learn the value of cultural protocols and how to position allyship at the heart of working towards reconciliation.