• 5 Proven Strategies To Combat DEI Resistance In The Workplace

• To Overcome Resistance to DEI, Understand What’s Driving It

• U.S. colleges face enrollment drop, fewer high school seniors : NPR

• What role were you born to play in social change? | Waging Nonviolence

Navigating Resistance Slide Deck

• Individual and Community Trauma: Individual Experiences in Collective Environments, Lauren Weisner

• Defining intensity and visibility (not prescriptive) - contextual!

• Things to consider when crafting a response (validate/education, mitigate, advocate) 

• Instructions for practice response: 

  • Identify event, intensity, and visibility

  • Identify who is impacted (directly or indirectly on your team)

  • Who should be included in your communication within your team

  • Write your response (consider the platform you want to use) 

Managing Your Organization's Message Slide Deck

Equity Labs Critical Events Communication Matrix

• Urie Bronfenbrenner’s model and across systems development

Taking Responsibility Slide Deck

Cycle of Liberation by Bobbie Harry

Individual Strategies

• Engaging in introspection and reflection: Consider and reflect on questions like, how have I previously defined leadership? When are times I have felt truly supported by leadership? When are times leadership has silenced others?

• Get comfortable being uncomfortable: The idea of liberation already moves us towards an unknown, a place of leadership that isn’t the norm. Embrace the feelings of uncomfortability as you move through them. What is the story you are telling yourself? Is it true? How do you know?

• Educate yourself around leadership styles that resonate with you.

• Conciousness raising through critical analysis: pay attention to the thoughts, language, and actions and if they align with our new world view.

Interpersonal Strategies

• Imaginative liberation: thinking radically through different modes such as conversation, writing, reading, shared experiences.

• Binary Mindsets

• Expand metrics of success

• Share your power

Engaging in Liberatory Leadership at Work Slide Deck

• Our team utilizes and subscribes to the work of adrienne maree brown. She writes extensively on change and offers a liberatory approach to approaching change. Her Emergent Strategy series can be found here: books – adrienne maree brown

• The work of Michelle MiJung Kim offers clarity and action-oriented ideas on changing toward an equitable and just world (minus any shame-based language!). We recommend her book The Wake Up— Michelle MiJung Kim.  

• Finally, you can peruse our Equity Labs Blog and our LinkedIn to read more pieces written by our team and our community about DEIJ in the workplace. 

Reframing Change Management Slide Deck

Theme: Who Matters - New Employees

Employees are 69% more likely to stay with a company for 3 years if they experience a great onboarding experience.

Process is paramount.

Equitable onboarding design

• Inclusive/people-centered values that model equity and belonging

  • Include co-workers and managers in the process, information sharing, and relationship building from the beginning

  • Involve leadership even if for a few minutes to demonstrate the new employees' recognized value

• Design justice approach: bottom-up design (not just top down), outside in

  • Can be ever changing

  • Modify to new people, experiences, and ideas

  • Include various identities, lived experiences, economic status, ability, neurodivergence, learning styles, education

• Utilize a "first day of school" mindset - onboarding is not about a knowledge dump but an experience which can be carried forward

  • The emotions tied to "first day of school" can and will manifest in different ways including fear, anxiety, excitement

  • Include trauma informed approaches when providing information and designing the experience

• Incorporate various learning style opportunities: video, visuals, music, reflection

• Communication: do it in advance and do it often, include pieces like what to expect, and create space for the new employee to ask questions

• Make onboarding a process of spaced repetition with small chunks of formal training, on the job training, and observation

• Follow Up, Follow Up, Follow Up

Onboarding can be a mutually transformative process for both new employees and current ones.

Equity & Ethics in Onboarding Slide Deck

3 Frameworks

• American as People

  • Questions to consider: Maybe there should not be a definition of who is "American"? What is the cost of belonging in the American fabric? What has to be given up? How much do you have to endure? How much do you have to give? Can we imagine a world where that is not necessary?

• American as Material

• American as Idea(l)s

Teaching and Learning about Settler Colonialism - article by George Dabo

US Immigration: Rhetoric vs. Reality - article by the Institute for Policy Research

We Shall Remain - documentary series by PBS

Consumerism and the Crisis: Wither 'the American Dream' - academic article by Maria N. Ivanova

Follow Up Questions:

• Where do you learn to be or do American?

  • Under the information ecosystem Community Hour drop down, access the worksheet with a focus on where and how you learn about American. What can you do to diversify or differentiate?

• How does our understanding of American change now as it has in the past?

Being American: Doing Ame Slide Deckr

The Intersection of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

Research and Resources:

The Likability Trap by Alicia Menendez

Emotional Stereotypes

Strategies:

Intrapersonal

Building Self-Awareness & Self-Regulation: 

• Importance of the Pause

• Body + Mind Awareness

  • Notice and acknowledge where your body is activating and what it may be telling you.

• Meeting Needs

The Practice of Empathy: 

• Tuning Into Your Capacity

• Pushing Past Discomfort

• Correcting Self-Talk

Interpersonal

Cementing Communication Skills: 

• Active Listening

  • Nonverbal and verbal can help ground you as a listener in the practice of active listening.

• Nonverbal Cues

• Verbal Cues

The "B" Word: 

• Knowing Your Boundaries

• Accepting Others' Boundaries

  • Can be direct and ask co-workers what their boundaries are (I.e. Whe is the best time for us to schedule meetings?)

• Manipulative Boundaries

Meditation Exercise

• Meditation script “Leaves on a Stream”

Community Organizing Slide Deck

Recruiting for your Community Organization

• Priya Parker’s Generous Exclusion

Community Organizing Strategies/Frameworks

• Community Accountability: Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan - Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators

• Non-Violent Civil Disobedience: Southern Christian Leadership Conference Article