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Workshops and presentations can be designed to meet the specific needs of institutions and organizations requesting our service. We are committed to the work and our pluralistic community.
Presentations & Workshops
1-Day Presentations & Workshops
Is it Diversity, Inclusion, Multiculturalism, Interculturalism or Pluralism?
Reframe our language for the shifting demographics of our nation.
To answer, “Where do we go from here?” we must recognize where we are now. This interactive workshop explores deficit language, ideologies of social constructionism, the resistance to build a pluralistic society, and the fear of those being challenged by the concepts of institutional, systemic, and structural racism.
To answer, “Where do we go from here?” we must recognize where we are now. This interactive workshop explores deficit language, ideologies of social constructionism, the resistance to build a pluralistic society, and the fear of those being challenged by the concepts of institutional, systemic, and structural racism.
Keys to the Game of Life
Become change agents in a global society.
The keys are designed to build a foundation, steeped in knowing who you are and understanding your personal identity. Examine historical change agents and understand how to be one in a global society. The keys provide tangible tools and skills to overcome obstacles, challenges, and gaps in life.
The keys are designed to build a foundation, steeped in knowing who you are and understanding your personal identity. Examine historical change agents and understand how to be one in a global society. The keys provide tangible tools and skills to overcome obstacles, challenges, and gaps in life.
Reframing the Resistance to Diversity
Build a pathway towards inclusivity, equity and justice in education.
To demonstrate the successes and highlight the need for further advancement, this presentation focuses on the history of diversity in higher education. Examine the relationship between diversity education and compliance, their importance, and their critical roles for progress. Explore the multiple dimensions of diversity that correspond with varying forms of bias and injustice, as neither exist in isolation.
To demonstrate the successes and highlight the need for further advancement, this presentation focuses on the history of diversity in higher education. Examine the relationship between diversity education and compliance, their importance, and their critical roles for progress. Explore the multiple dimensions of diversity that correspond with varying forms of bias and injustice, as neither exist in isolation.
Navigate the Resistance to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Resistance doesn’t have to derail your work.
Learn to identify and reframe resistance, use it fuel your efforts, and embrace it as part of the change process. Understand what diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging mean in today’s society. Address your own blind spots and gain helpful ways to begin your allyship, advocacy, and accomplicehood journey.
Learn to identify and reframe resistance, use it fuel your efforts, and embrace it as part of the change process. Understand what diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging mean in today’s society. Address your own blind spots and gain helpful ways to begin your allyship, advocacy, and accomplicehood journey.
Black Lives Matter
Address injustices and inequities on many fronts.
Join us for a conversation on Black Lives Matter. Understand the many injustices and inequities that fuel the movement besides police brutality. Explore its connection to various movements in American history and examine how the role of race, a social construct, plays out in the term, all lives matter. Can all lives really matter if one group’s does not?
Join us for a conversation on Black Lives Matter. Understand the many injustices and inequities that fuel the movement besides police brutality. Explore its connection to various movements in American history and examine how the role of race, a social construct, plays out in the term, all lives matter. Can all lives really matter if one group’s does not?
Black Identity Development
Explore Black identity from a historical perspective.
Examine how Black identity was shaped from different African countries and cultures and the US from 1619 to the present. Learn how systemic racism and oppression have created disparities to cause an imbalance in education, wealth, homeownership, and life expectancy. Use Dr. William Cross’s racial identity development model to learn levels of racial identity and how they are supported within organizations.
Examine how Black identity was shaped from different African countries and cultures and the US from 1619 to the present. Learn how systemic racism and oppression have created disparities to cause an imbalance in education, wealth, homeownership, and life expectancy. Use Dr. William Cross’s racial identity development model to learn levels of racial identity and how they are supported within organizations.
Everybody Wanna be a Ni$$a, but Nobody Wanna be a Ni$$er
The miseducation of ni$$er and the historical understanding of the evolution of ni$$er. #StillNi$$a!
Ni$$er/Ni$$a is the most pejorative, exploited, offensive, socially acceptable, and capitalistic word in the history of the world. Examine and critique its history, present day usage, global popularity, cultural misconception, and future. Learn how to use the word as an educational, awareness and consciousness training tool. Warning: sensitive content.
Ni$$er/Ni$$a is the most pejorative, exploited, offensive, socially acceptable, and capitalistic word in the history of the world. Examine and critique its history, present day usage, global popularity, cultural misconception, and future. Learn how to use the word as an educational, awareness and consciousness training tool. Warning: sensitive content.
History of the N-Word 2.0
How do we change school culture and use of the N-word?
Explore the Cycle of Socialization and the Cycle of Liberation as we understand the historical evolution of the word. Discuss the impact of its use in the classroom, media, music, and our communities, and identify strategies to combat its misuse. Warning: sensitive content.
Explore the Cycle of Socialization and the Cycle of Liberation as we understand the historical evolution of the word. Discuss the impact of its use in the classroom, media, music, and our communities, and identify strategies to combat its misuse. Warning: sensitive content.
From Socialization to Liberation
Examine the identity development of males of color through the lens of social and media constructs.
Dialogue on how young men of color are stereotyped by social and media constructs during their identity development. Address empirical research as well as anecdotal information and observations. Re-examine the education of males of color, so that their humanity is defined by the development of knowledge. It is critical for each generation to learn who and what they are. Know thyself!
Dialogue on how young men of color are stereotyped by social and media constructs during their identity development. Address empirical research as well as anecdotal information and observations. Re-examine the education of males of color, so that their humanity is defined by the development of knowledge. It is critical for each generation to learn who and what they are. Know thyself!
Hoodwinked & Bamboozled
Examine Black male identity development through the lens of historical and media constructs.
Examine how American stereotypes of Black males affect identity development, lead to lowered expectations by others, and diminish opportunities of these talented young men. Discuss the changes needed to focus on the development of knowledge that centers Black male humanity, potential, and brilliance. It is critical for each to know their own identity.
Examine how American stereotypes of Black males affect identity development, lead to lowered expectations by others, and diminish opportunities of these talented young men. Discuss the changes needed to focus on the development of knowledge that centers Black male humanity, potential, and brilliance. It is critical for each to know their own identity.
Combating the Matrix
A survival guide for professionals and students of color to survive in white ideology institutions and school systems.
Using the theoretical framework of Critical Race Theory, explore color-blind ideology, interest convergence, race vs. poverty, and how double consciousness and nihilism impact equity. Race matters in education as the white ideological framework is dominant. Explore tangible skills to survive environments where inequities, microinvalidations, micro-assaults and microaggressions exist on a daily basis.
Using the theoretical framework of Critical Race Theory, explore color-blind ideology, interest convergence, race vs. poverty, and how double consciousness and nihilism impact equity. Race matters in education as the white ideological framework is dominant. Explore tangible skills to survive environments where inequities, microinvalidations, micro-assaults and microaggressions exist on a daily basis.
Building Diversity, Cultural Competence, and a Pathway Toward Inclusivity
Prepare future teachers to deliver culturally relevant pedagogy in the classroom.
Use an academically cognitive approach and psychosocial theoretical development ideology to enhance the skill set of students and student affair practitioners. Increase awareness and preparation, while brainstorming ideas to create courses, workshops, or continuing education courses that address diversity and cultural competence.
Use an academically cognitive approach and psychosocial theoretical development ideology to enhance the skill set of students and student affair practitioners. Increase awareness and preparation, while brainstorming ideas to create courses, workshops, or continuing education courses that address diversity and cultural competence.
The Illusion of Inclusion Causes Mass Confusion at Predominately White Institutions
Break through the façade to build socially just and equitable campuses.
Institutions have utilized intentional, felonious, and deceitful marketing practices to recruit students, faculty, and administrators of color rather than build actual culturally diverse and responsive campuses. Explore sociohistorical factors, gain strategies, and learn on how white privilege divides ethnic groups within higher education.
Institutions have utilized intentional, felonious, and deceitful marketing practices to recruit students, faculty, and administrators of color rather than build actual culturally diverse and responsive campuses. Explore sociohistorical factors, gain strategies, and learn on how white privilege divides ethnic groups within higher education.
It Ain’t Covid-19, But It’s Just as Deadly
Address the negative effects of white privilege on people of color.
A national race pandemic, deadly and harmful like COVID, must be addressed. Engage in conversations on white supremacy and white privilege from a disease perspective. Understand their psychological and physiological effects on indigenous and people of color and how health, image, esteem, confidence, fatigue, and careers are affected. Learn how change agents can disrupt infection rates.
A national race pandemic, deadly and harmful like COVID, must be addressed. Engage in conversations on white supremacy and white privilege from a disease perspective. Understand their psychological and physiological effects on indigenous and people of color and how health, image, esteem, confidence, fatigue, and careers are affected. Learn how change agents can disrupt infection rates.
Dying from the Hands of Allyson in the Workplace and Society
Deconstruct Allyson’s inconsistent allyship, "Ally fronting", and power hoarding.
Who is Allyson? You know her. She’s the white woman using her tears as weapons of mass destruction, and yes, she's Involved with a BIPOC partner. Learn the traits of allyship, advocacy, and accomplices. Engage in collective experiences and explore strategies in addressing and working with Allyson.
Who is Allyson? You know her. She’s the white woman using her tears as weapons of mass destruction, and yes, she's Involved with a BIPOC partner. Learn the traits of allyship, advocacy, and accomplices. Engage in collective experiences and explore strategies in addressing and working with Allyson.
Detoxify the Mind from Anti-Blackness
Break the chains of psychological strategies.
Learn the definitions of anti-Blackness and explore data, policies, and the toxins causing “mentacide” in Minnesota. Understand the phases of detoxification in order to break the chains of anti-Blackness.
Learn the definitions of anti-Blackness and explore data, policies, and the toxins causing “mentacide” in Minnesota. Understand the phases of detoxification in order to break the chains of anti-Blackness.
Develop or Reexamine Your Equity Plan
What is the Intent vs. Impact? Will It Create Transformational Change?
Learn how to develop equity plans that specify clear goals, objectives, interventions, institutional resources, and assessment measures that lead to transformational change for racial equity and inclusive excellence. Understand strategies to make equity plan data actionable and know the institutional trappings that halt progress.
Learn how to develop equity plans that specify clear goals, objectives, interventions, institutional resources, and assessment measures that lead to transformational change for racial equity and inclusive excellence. Understand strategies to make equity plan data actionable and know the institutional trappings that halt progress.
MN Nice
“Why don’t you purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka?”
Minnesota is known for the land of 10,000 lakes, Mayo Clinic, and Prince. Not as much is known about the Dakota 38, Bdote Dakota Creation Site, Duluth lynchings, racial covenants, and educational apartheid. Learn how “MN Nice” impacts the lives of Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), including the murders of Philando Castille, George Floyd, and Deante Wright. Discover initiatives to dismantle the systemic, structural, and institutional racism uprooting our community.
Minnesota is known for the land of 10,000 lakes, Mayo Clinic, and Prince. Not as much is known about the Dakota 38, Bdote Dakota Creation Site, Duluth lynchings, racial covenants, and educational apartheid. Learn how “MN Nice” impacts the lives of Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC), including the murders of Philando Castille, George Floyd, and Deante Wright. Discover initiatives to dismantle the systemic, structural, and institutional racism uprooting our community.
Intensive 3-Part Racial Equity Training
Multi-day training for teachers, administrators, and organizations
Part 1: Institutional and Structural Racism
Topics include structural racism, implicit bias, race in America, and impacts on policies and economics. Learn how racial identity has been shaped and how those interactions have clashed with institutional culture. Leave with a better understanding of how to work for change.
Part 2: Racial Equity Framework and Key Concepts
Topics include internalized oppression, inferiority vs. superiority, and how those feelings play out in society. Learn a tool to problem solve and focus on a clear and common goal/vision for racial equity.
Part 3: Develop a Plan for Change
Use the tool presented in Parts 1 & 2 to develop a strategic equity plan, work on specific goals, and/or their action plans. CME provides guidance on a deep analysis for structural, systemic and institutional change as organizations examine and address biased policies and practices.
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