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  • Home
  • Meet Kathy
  • Events
  • Work With Kathy
    • Design & Facilitate Powerful EDI Workshops
    • Your Year of Transformation
    • References
    • Consulting Services
      • Recent Clients
    • Workshops
      • Self-Care and Healing for Change Agents: Renewing, Rejuvenating, and Recommitting
      • Analyzing Programs and Services with an Inclusive Lens
      • Foundations of Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice
      • Creating Inclusive, Socially Just Campus Environments
      • Deepening Multicultural Competencies: Strategies for Professional Development
      • Training of Trainers Program to Design and Facilitate Workshops on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
      • Developing a Team of Inclusion Practitioners
      • Facilitating Difficult Dialogues: Navigating Triggering Events
      • White Ally Development Program
  • Resources
    • Free Courses/Webinars
    • Blog
    • Radio Show
    • Books
      • Leading White Accountability Groups
      • In It For The Long Haul
      • …But I’m Not Racist
      • Turn The Tide
        • Book Worksheets
        • Lunch and Learn Staff Training Program
    • Access to our Facilitation and Design Knowledge Base
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  • Navigating triggers

    Navigating Triggers

    April 18, 2013 /

    Click to read / download the article: Navigating Triggering Events

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    February 13, 2019
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    Know the Warning Signs You’ve Been Triggered to Navigate Difficult Situations.

    October 10, 2018
  • Diversity

    Part 3: Infusing Diversity and Inclusion Into Everything We Do

    July 21, 2011 /

    Most facilitators of courses and training sessions can infuse issues of diversity and inclusion to a far greater extent than they currently do. In my first two posts (below this post starting from the bottom) I explore ways to infuse diversity using the metaphor of creating a layer cake ~ starting with a solid foundation: Layer 1 Acknowledge the organization’s commitment to creating an inclusive environment for all members. “Do no harm.” Encourage participants to recognize the full breadth of differences in the organization and those they serve. Begin to explore their role and responsibility in creating an inclusive organization for all members. Layer 2 Use examples and images that…

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    Using Whiteness Accountability Spaces to Disrupt and Unlearn Racial Biases & Actions

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    Can You Recognize Your Own Racist Beliefs?

    January 25, 2018
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    Are Your Diversity Efforts Falling Short? It May Be Because…

    April 10, 2019
  • Inclusion

    Part 2: Infusing Diversity and Inclusion into Everything We Do

    June 27, 2011 /

    “If you see with your heart, all masks disappear.” Sufi saying Most training and educational sessions that address topics related to interpersonal skills, team dynamics, and leadership can readily apply the 2nd layer for infusing diversity and inclusion. There are two key elements in this layer: Use examples and images that shift the traditional ways of depicting people based on their Insider and Outsider group memberships. (Note: The particular terms ~ Insider/Outsider ~ may be more understandable to most participants. I also use the terms “dominant and subordinated groups,”  “one-up/one-down groups” and “marginalized” or “under-represented groups” depending on the context of the session. I believe any of these terms can…

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    How to Use White/Whiteness Accountability Spaces to Begin Healing Your Racial Biases

    February 19, 2020
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    Strategies for Leaders to Use an Inclusion Lens in Crisis Management

    May 15, 2020
    Diversity | Inclusive Culture | Inclusion

    Diversity pays dividends. Does your organization have an inclusive culture?

    April 26, 2018

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