Actions Panel
Gain practical strategies for facilitating productive conversations that encourage both safety and risk-taking at work
By Solution Consulting Co.Follow
Date and time
Monday, November 13 · 9 – 10:15am PST
Location
Online
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About this event
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Mobile eTicket
ABOUT THE MASTERCLASS
This masterclass is designed to help business leaders develop an understanding of the benefits and risks associated with creating safe and brave spaces in the workplace. The session will explore how to create a culture where people feel protected from harm, yet also feel empowered to take risks and express their authentic selves. We will discuss the importance of creating boundaries while also fostering connection and inclusiveness. The facilitator will provide practical strategies for facilitating productive conversations that encourage both safety and risk-taking.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Understand the differences between safe and brave spaces at work, including the benefits of both types of environments.
2. Learn practical strategies for fostering open dialogue and inclusivity while maintaining essential boundaries.
3. Develop skills for recognizing when conversations or behaviors are crossing healthy boundaries, as well as techniques for intervening effectively in those situations.
4. Practice using tools to help build trust within teams, such as empathy mapping, brainstorming, conflict resolution techniques, etc.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Tenisha “Ava” Williams is an experienced diversity, equity, and Inclusion consultant, speaker, and facilitator with over a decade of experience with organizational assessment, strategic planning, and equity-centered change management. Ava has led project teams focusing on identifying and addressing inequities for various leaders and executives at over 100 organizations. She is known for introducing frameworks and tools beyond conventional DEIA discussions – urging audiences to imagine how their work can build an organizational culture that strives for belonging for all and deliver tangible and measurable outcomes for communities affected by structural inequities.
Recent projects include supporting the reopening planning and implementation team at Tulsa Public Schools as they navigated the competing demands of re-envisioning transformative and equitable educational structures amidst the pandemic and leading teams of consultants to uncover and address the root causes of systemic inequities through equity assessments and strategic plans for Teach for America’s national office, Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church, and County of Summit, Ohio.
Gabrielle Roffe works to understand the unique ways people connect to and protect their environments and, through transformative community practices, redefine environmental stewardship. She has spent the past 13 years leading in DEI work to amplify voices of underrepresented communities to advance equity, inclusion, and belonging in the access and design of cities, neighborhoods, and other public spaces and services.
Gabrielle has partnership and DEI capacity-building, community engagement, and creative placemaking expertise. She enjoys leading equity committees to develop innovative strategies and tactics to address internal and external organizational DEI needs. She takes a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach to authentically build holistic community-centered solutions when leading staff, community, executive leadership, and board members. Gabrielle is bilingual as a heritage Spanish speaker. Recent projects include leading DEI assessment and planning efforts with Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, Baltimore Port Authority, Tech Goes Home, and the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Rachael Reichenbach is a consultant and facilitator dedicated to significant, systemic change. They use tools and practices from deep equity and systems thinking to support organizations through the process of moving toward their deepest aspirations. Over the past ten years, they have facilitated and collaborated on social change processes in various settings – from political education and organizing to antiracism culture shift to community food systems activation and network weaving.
In this time of simultaneous multi-system transformation, they bring the skills, experience, and wisdom to help you address the root causes of the increasingly severe and complex challenges we collectively seek to solve. Their facilitation work focuses on supporting organizations and networks through strategy development, visioning, action planning, group dynamics, culture shift, and stakeholder engagement. Their approach to facilitation is rooted in the Training for Change school of thought and deeply influenced by their teachers and mentors Joseph McIntyre, Miles Gordon, Yotam Marom, and Annabel Membrillo Jimenez.
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