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.

Contact the host of Facilitator Intensive: June 2025