The Guiding Facilitation Discussions Training includes:

• Experiential learning by sitting through a customized meeting session that includes opening activities, introductions, mini-icebreakers, group agreements, core discussion questions, and closing activities that all reflect DEI topics that your organization or team would like to process. This experiential learning is also customized to reflect specific workplace areas, such as hiring, promotions, conversations, staff evaluations, policies, and structures.

• Design tools to allow your staff to customize discussion questions and the structure of the meetings to ensure that the people guiding it know how to assess the needs of your team and adjust the activities to minimize issues that may occur.

• Support with preparing staff to have conversations about their experiences in a group setting with others. This includes sharing your own versus other people's experiences, trigger warnings, and self-assessment on how to know if a person feels comfortable sharing a topic with someone else.

• Tools and best practices on how to design and guide discussions on difficult and emotional topics such as the #blacklivesmatter movement, racism in American, or the impact of racism in the workplace.

• Developing skills to create the necessary agreements and norms needed for staff to participate in discussions about difficult issues.

• Learn how to design a series of discussions on one topic or on topics that are all related to each other.

 

Issues Addressed

• You want your staff to engage in difficult conversations about discrimination but know that they will need specialized training. 

• You want to make sure that conversations about racism, discrimination, or workplace microaggressions do lead to conflict or harm after the meetings are over

• You want to make sure that your team knows how to handle potential issues that might show up when discussing controversial and challenging issues.

• You may have had past experiences where leaders tried to engage in conversations about discrimination that did not go so well and you want to attempt to rebuild trust and heighten participation moving forward.