Are you ready to take your leadership to the next level? VISIONS proudly presents Fundamentals of Inclusivity, a transformative learning experience designed to equip participants with the tools and insights needed to excel in today's diverse and dynamic world.
Why Choose Our Workshop?
✨ Practical and Powerful: Our workshop equips you with actionable tools and skills you can implement immediately.
✨ Expert Facilitation: Learn from seasoned consultants who specialize in inclusive leadership and have worked with hundreds of organizations over the last four decades.
✨ Lasting Impact: Gain a deep understanding of principles of inclusion that will enable you to drive positive change long after the workshop concludes.
Expand your capacity as a leader with Fundamentals of Inclusivity. Join us in this immersive experience and embark on a journey of growth, empowerment, and transformation.
Time Commitment: Four 3-hour sessions (12 contact hours)
Cost: $650 per person / $725 for CE credit
Dates and times:
3-6pm ET / 12-3pm PT on:
Tuesday March 5, March 12, March 19, and March 26, 2024
&
Wednesday May 1, May 8, May 15, and May 22, 2024
Ready to lead inclusively? Reserve your spot today!
Testimonials
"This workshop gave me some tools to address ways in which elements of my own work, as well as the organization I work at, are harmful to historically excluded communities. We are all working for a stronger, more inclusive world, but it takes concentrated effort to make that happen! The tools I learned through Fundamentals of Inclusivity will go a long way to informing how I approach this work."
- October 2023 participant
Registration Details
Program Highlights
Session 1: Effective communication, conflict resolution, and relationship-building
Cultivate skills for impactful communication that transcends barriers. Learn how to develop meaningful relationships across cultural, racial, and other forms of difference, foster mutual understanding and collaboration, and understand what it takes to transform monocultural environments into equitable and inclusive ones.
Session 2: Cultivating Emotional Literacy
Gain essential tools to identify and counter personal-level bias and discomfort. Understand how unstated fears and resentments can impact organizations negatively and learn powerful skills to create constructive, validating, and inclusive environments.
Session 3: Understanding and Addressing the Dynamics of Oppression
Learn how modern forms of oppression manifest in individual and organizational behaviors. Turn this awareness into action with practical approaches to creating an inclusive culture, where every individual feels valued and supported.
Session 4: Applying Knowledge to Real-Life Challenges
Put your learning into practice. Engage in interactive problem-solving as we tackle real-life workplace scenarios that you and your peers bring to the table. Benefit from collective insights to devise effective solutions.
Facilitator Details
Deborah J. Walker, PhD
Dr. Walker has worked as a multicultural and organizational development consultant for over 25 years. She is skilled in the areas of assessment, strategic planning and change, process facilitation, community engagement, cooperative problem solving, and coaching. She has a keen interest in policy and systems change related to disparities. Her focus is on supporting organizations to increase their internal capacity to achieve their equity and inclusion goals. She received her Doctorate in Administration in Higher Education from the University of Alabama.
Leena Akhtar, PhD
Dr. Leena Akhtar brings a perspective she developed having grown up and lived in several different countries to her work. After starting her career in finance, she engaged in trauma studies at NYU and then earned a PhD from Harvard University. She has extensively researched and worked on issues of cultural change around discrimination, harassment, and power-based violence in organizations and institutions, work that she continues to do via her consultancy, The Greater Us, in addition to serving as Director of Programs and a consultant with VISIONS.
Jeanne Firth, PhD
Dr. Jeanne Firth has been working with the VISIONS model since 2013, first as a client on the founding staff team of Grow Dat Youth Farm in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Firth holds a PhD in Human Geography and the Environment and an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalization, both from the London School of Economics and Political Science. A white, working-class woman who grew up in Kansas City, Jeanne comes from a family with farming roots on the prairie. She holds a lifelong dedication to place-based food justice and food sovereignty work. As a social scientist, teacher and organizational leader, she believes in the importance of upholding both process and content; how we learn is of equal importance to what we learn.
Refund and Cancellation Policy
If a workshop is canceled by VISIONS, participants will receive a full refund. If a participant cancels more than 30 days in advance of the training start date, they can receive a full refund or transfer to another session.
If a participant cancels 15-30 days in advance, they can receive up to a 50% refund or have a 50% discount applied to a future training.
Cancellations made 14 or fewer days in advance of the training are not eligible for a refund or transfer to another training.
