Facilitator Intensive: June 2025

Key Strategies & Takeaways from the Course

1. Skill-Building for Conversations that Move Us Forward

• Tools to engage in meaningful dialogue about race, gender, and identity at work
• Language and frameworks to navigate difficult conversations with confidence
• Strategies to lead across racial and power differences with humility and clarity

2. Sustaining Yourself While Doing the Work

• Practices for setting and honoring healthy personal and professional boundaries
• Techniques to stay grounded and avoid personalizing resistance or tension
• A roadmap for creating emotionally safe and productive spaces (containers)
• Reflection tools for understanding your role in culture change without burnout

3. Frameworks for Navigating Resistance & Complexity

• Practical use of agreements and accountability frameworks
• Understanding the difference between technical and adaptive challenges
• Approaches to move through resistance without avoidance or escalation
• Gain access to powerful tools shared by The Center, Mirror, Align, Bridge and Noticing & Wondering each crafted to deepen understanding and inspire productive conversations.

4. Leading Projects and People Through an Equity Lens

• How to integrate equity into decision-making, budgeting, and implementation
• Strategies to bring others along, especially leadership and key stakeholders
• Building shared ownership of culture change across teams and roles
• Ways to adapt your leadership style to foster inclusion and belonging

5. Creating Inclusive Cultures That Work for Everyone

• Tactics to foster psychological safety across lines of race, gender and other dynamics
• Support for both white staff and BIPOC staff in shared culture-building
• Methods to surface and respond to dynamics that often go unspoken 
• Design approaches to make equity work sustainable, not just performative!

Who is this course for?

• You're a white leader or BIPOC leader managing a diverse team and unsure how to engage meaningfully across lines of difference.
• You’re responsible for applying an equity lens to policies, budgeting, or project management but lack the tools to communicate those decisions with clarity and buy-in.
• You're a person of color  facilitating conversations with white colleagues and navigating dynamics that can feel exhausting or isolating.
•  You’ve been asked to facilitate culture change but you're unclear on how to move from simply presenting content to guiding dynamic, equity-centered transformation. Power dynamics, role ambiguity, and issues of race, gender, and hierarchy complicate the work, and you’re unsure how to navigate them.

If any of these strategies resonate with you, register now for our upcoming Facilitator Intensive.

Have a team of 15 or more? We can bring the training to you, even if you're located outside the Portland metro area. Contact Archana Manuel at archana@thecenterconsultancy.com to learn more about group options and on-site facilitation.

(Prerequisite: Reframing Racism or foundational knowledge of race equity)

These sessions are led by the Center's Co-Founder and Author, Hanif Fazal and will include a copy of his book, An Other World.