FREE Neighbourhoods Equality, Racial and Cultural identity training- 2 part workshop

Part 1: Unconscious bias workshop: Thursday, 8^th July, 9.30 to 12.30
Part 2: Racial Cultural Identity workshop: Tuesday, 13th July, 9.30 to 12.30

3 places are available to VCSE organisations per Neighbourhood (limited to one place per organisation) on a first come first served basis.   To register for a place, you will need to be able to:

• Attend both part 1 and part 2 workshops (details and dates below)
• Take key messages and learning back to your Neighbourhood, sharing (at the next meeting) personal learning which may help others in our shared commitment to achieving greater equality – whether points of language, awareness or anything else useful to achieving change. 
• Follow Mabadiliko’s zoom protocol below.  

If you are employed by a VCS organisation, ‘backfill’ funding is available to cover staff expenses/costs for attending this training.  For more details, email: victoria@hcvs.org.uk.

Course outline

Part 1: Unconscious bias workshop: Thursday, 8^th July, 9.30 to 12.30

• Inner Circle exercise
• First Thoughts
• Rank, Power and Privilege
• Enhancing personal and organisational action points
• Evaluation

Part 2: Racial Cultural Identity workshop: Tuesday, 13th July, 9.30 to 12.30

• Identity Exercise - Exploring lived experience of differences.
• Ancestral Exercise - An opportunity to share what is good and not so good about being your specific ethnicity and gender.
• Leadership Pairs - Working with your primary identity and looking at strengths and challenges.
• Emerging personal and organisation action points
• Evaluation

Mabadiliko’s zoom protocol:

1. Do arrive at the latest at 9.20 am so we can start on time.
2. We will need you to have your camera on for the workshop.
3. Do have a pen and paper handy for some action points.
4. Please use a laptop for the workshop as smart phones will only show the speaking participant; therefore hand gestures or acknowledgements will be/are missed.
5. Please sit no more than a maximum of 1 mtr (39 inches) from your laptop camera.
6. Visibility is important so please choose “gallery” view where you can see all participants on this workshop.
7. Do have a red cloth, napkin or object with you for the session.