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To start or supplement your learning journey

Here's a deeper look at what we can do together. All workshops and educational journeys can be customized and adapted to meet your organization's unique needs.

EDIA 101

​Embrace equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility as core principles of your organization's culture.

Our EDIA 101 training helps you integrate and understand EDIA as an integral thread woven within your business operations. We equip you with the foundations for embracing the uncomfortable and taking meaningful steps during times of uncertainty. From building inclusive teams to ensuring accessibility for all, we help you feel confident about building a workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone has equal opportunities to contribute and succeed.

Your EDIA 101 learning journey can include:

Expanding Our Knowledge in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility

2 hour session

During this session, we:
 

  • Define the concepts of EDIA with emphasis on practical application and collective understanding

  • Explore the ways bias and microaggressions hinder inclusive workplace culture, and what we can do about it

  • Understand the shifts taking place in the EDIA landscape to address current injustices

  • Discuss the ways in which EDIA moves from principles to actions that make a difference

Moving from Theory to Practice

2 hour session

During this session, we:
 

  • Reflect on inclusive behaviour change and practice new methods in real-time 

  • Discuss current organizational policies and processes through an EDIA lens to identify areas for improvement

  • Get started on developing steps to implement EDIA principles in daily work and organizational strategy.

​Cultural Competence & Awareness Training

​Embrace equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility as core principles of your organization's culture.

We approach cultural competence as an opportunity to improve your team's ability to navigate diverse cultural landscapes while enhancing the quality of relationships with potential partners, communities, clients, and target audiences. This commitment is about strengthening one’s abilities to interact effectively with people of different cultures, and appreciating that Nova Scotia’s cultural landscape is rapidly diversifying and growing.
 

We provide a blend of insightful guidance and interactive experiences that foster an environment where diverse perspectives are not just acknowledged but celebrated. Our training equips your team with practical strategies and insights to promote mutual understanding, respect, and effective communication across cultural boundaries. This workshop is customized to meet your organization’s unique needs and empowers your team to embrace diversity and leverage it as a strength in achieving your organizational goals.

Your Cultural Competence & Awareness learning journey can include:

Expanding our Capacity in Cultural Competence

2 hour session

During this session, we:
 

  • Dive into our own cultural positions and how they differ from and are similar to others

  • Discuss adapting to multicultural settings with empathy and respect

  • Understand the social and cultural reality in which we live and work and in which our clients live and work

  • Cultivate appropriate attitudes toward cultural difference

Cross-Cultural Communication in Practice
2 hour session

During this session, we:
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  • Uncover best practices for cross-cultural communication 

  • Practice strategies for active listening and decoding nonverbal cues across cultures

  • Explore techniques for fostering clear and accessible communication

  • Understand structural oppression and demonstrate awareness and commitment to social justice

Anti-Racism Training

Take proactive steps to combat racism and promote racial equity within your organization.

Racism is deeply entrenched in Canadian institutions, policies, and practices. It has determined the current social, economic, and political marginalization of Black, Brown, and Indigenous persons through lack of opportunities, lower socio-economic status, higher unemployment, significant poverty rates, and overrepresentation in the criminal justice system. Nova Scotia has a unique history with racism that requires unique and tailored approaches to address with accuracy and care. Our approach is grounded in this understanding.

Our Anti-Racism training provides education, resources, and actionable strategies to create an equitable and safe workplace for racialized persons. From addressing microaggressions to implementing anti-racist policies and initiatives, we support your organization in becoming actively anti-racist and fostering a culture of belonging for all.
 

Your Anti-Racism learning journey can include:

Getting into Race, Power, and Privilege

3 sessions of 2 hours each

During these sessions, we:
 

  • Explore the origins of modern racism: Foundations of the Doctrine of Discovery

  • Learn about the Living Legacy of Racism

  • Examine Race as a social construct 

  • Explore the prevalence and relevance of racism in your local community or region

  • Discuss how our bias, power, and privilege can affect our professional relationships (ie. with clients and colleagues)

Anti-Racism in Action

2 hour session

During this session, we:
 

  • Explore the tools to engage in productive discussions about race with confidence and respect.

  • Will move beyond passive support to active allyship by practising challenging racism 

  • Learn actionable steps to create anti-racist policies, practices, and cultures within the workplace

  • Understand that anti-racism is an ongoing practice that requires commitment, reflection, and growth

Unconscious Bias Training

Address unconscious biases that may impact decision-making and hinder diversity and inclusion efforts. Our Unconscious Bias training raises awareness of unspoken biases and provides practical strategies to mitigate their influence. By understanding and challenging unconscious biases, your team can make more objective and inclusive decisions, ultimately fostering a more equitable and diverse workplace.


Our Bias training takes you and your team through a series of sessions designed to shift both perspective and action.

Attendees will learn best practice language for allyship, fostering inclusion in language and will practice supportive thinking. This will increase awareness and teach people how to recognize their biases, manage them, and work towards changing their behavior.

Your bias learning journey can include:

Implicit Bias

2 hour session

During this session, we:
 

  • Become more aware of implicit bias, microaggressions, and stereotypes

  • Identify ways to minimize personal and professional bias

  • Explore how bias can affect attitudes, behavior. and decision making

  • Discuss practice strategies that facilitate inclusive environments

Expanding our Knowledge in Practice; Race, Power and Privilege

3 sessions of 2 hours each

During this session, we:
 

  • explore the origins of modern racism: Foundations of the Doctrine of Discovery

  • Learn about the Living Legacy of Racism

  • Examine Race as a social construct

  • Discuss how our bias, power, and privilege can affect our professional relationships (ie. with clients and colleagues)

How to be an Ally

2 hour session

During this session, we:
 

  • Understand what it means to be an Ally

  • Understand Privilege

  • Understand microaggressions

  • Take action and Speak up

Inclusive Leadership Training

Transforming your Organization Through Accountable Leadership

​How leaders address and navigate organizational change that challenges status-quo thinking directly impacts the effectiveness of DEI work, and has the power to unite people across differences.

Through a practical approach, we help leadership teams, management, and boards of directors address concepts of power, privilege, and hierarchy, and how to mobilize their spheres of influence to accelerate and support equity work in a meaningful way.

Your Inclusive Leadership lerning journey can include:

Inclusive Leadership in Action

2 hour session

During this session, we:
 

  • Reflect on our role as a leader in inclusive change and the actions you can start taking to build a legacy future generations will be proud of

  • Build the confidence to bring your entire organization through healthy transformative change that centers equity at its core

Getting into Race, Power, and Privilege

3 sessions of 2 hours each

During these sessions, we:
 

  • Learn about the Living Legacy of Racism and Discrimination

  • Explore the prevalence and relevance of inequity within your local community or region

  • Discuss how our bias, power, and privilege can affect our professional relationships (ie. with clients and colleagues)

  • Explore best practices for effective inclusive leadership

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