Diversity Training for the 21st Century

Teach diverse groups how to become a unified powerful force for positive change by building upon our common experiences.

Develop leaders who solve problems that keep cropping up around us.

Find that people seek out diversity training because they receive tools to create the lives they really want.

We’ll transform what we already know about diversity to establish alliances that build equality, fairness, and collaboration in our communities, workplaces, families, and world. We’ll discover that our common experiences of being higher in some “pecking orders” and lower in others unify us on paths to new, powerful solutions.

Explode Diversity into the Mainstream

We explode diversity into the mainstream by painting a picture that is large enough yet simple enough to be inclusive of an enormous array of cultural issues – race, ethnicity, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, ancestry, religion, age, socioeconomic status, gender identity, marital status, language, disability, and others.

Yet, the same accessible model extends to ranking criteria in areas such as success in math classes, body type, job position, hair on one’s head, handedness, learning styles, as well as rankings particular to certain geographical regions and families.

Wide Audience

From the person who is a political activist for equality to one who thinks that learning about diversity is only valuable for “those groups” over there, we demonstrate that we are all affected by hierarchies and can benefit when they are removed. We examine our roles in both our personal and professional lives, as each of us has her or his own individual hierarchical portfolio or profile.

Light Style

A fun, light approach disarms people who may traditionally feel defensive when they are dealing with issues such as power and privilege. When people are reminded that “We’re high in some hierarchies and low in others,” we can move forward as we build upon our common ground.

Outcomes

We use story-telling, role-plays, discussions, and real-world examples to uncover the consistent and predictable attitudes and behaviors, rules and roles in a diversity of hierarchies. Using these patterns, we learn simple but powerful techniques to turn public and private conversations about important issues from differences of opinion into an examination of root, the source of problems. Then, we learn how to use our common experiences in hierarchies to create new, effective alternatives that solve the problems we identified.

Harriet and Charlotte Childress
Diversity Consultants
Keynote speakers, Workshops, Materials

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