This workshop enables participants to reflect on what it means to be and stay and practice as an inclusive, fair and racially just leader and champion, acknowledging that everyone has their own unique experiences of discrimination and privilege.
Participants will be supported to articulate their personal commitment to taking actions and risks to challenge inequalities, racism and injustice.
The programme explores:
- Intersectionality when looking at discrimination affecting colleagues and communities.
- The fluidity of language about race and understand the different perspectives that exist and how to build confidence in the language they use.
- Trust and mistrust in this space, including micro-aggressions.
- How Cultural Competence can be used at a personal, practitioner, leadership and organisational level to improve practice with colleagues and meet the needs of culturally diverse citizens and communities.
- The qualities of inclusive leadership, organisations and partnerships, and the conditions for them to thrive. What do they look like, feel like and behave like in practice?
- Recognise and understand the dissonance that can exist between organisational rhetoric and what is happening in reality.
- The opportunity to highlight any areas for further development.
It’s important to go into depth in a particular area of equalities such as race instead of it getting lost in general equalities training.
We need to engage each other on the history of capitalism and racism if we’re to overcome it.