Speak with Passion, Lead with Purpose
Workshop Offerings
With the leadership of a skilled and experienced speaker/facilitator at the helm, MAS DIVERSITY Consultancy partners with your staff to identify the specific needs of your group to tailor comprehensive, experiential and relevant programming that engages all participants in the collective work we are about.
Who's Got the POWER?
An Analysis of Oppression, Privilege and Power, a.k.a O.P.P.
How does systemic power inter-relate to equity and inclusion? Through a power analysis, participants explore how the significance of poverty and systemic injustice impact marginalized communities. Learn how gatekeeping and divide and conquer tactics break down relationships and unity between subjugated groups positioning for justice. Designed as a comprehensive analysis of systemic power and how it inter-relates to equity and inclusion. The goal is to provide participants with the knowledge, common language and skills to build an inclusive and equitable learning community.
Communication Skills for a Cancel Culture
Engaging across the table with those who have shared ideals is hard enough? How do we effectively remain thoughtfully engaged through moments of difficulty (triggers, micro and macro insults) with those on opposite sides of an issue? Here we introduce practices for culturally informed inquiry and discovery learning to further support and sustain mutually inclusive multicultural environments. Participants will acquire skills to help filter judgment based assumptions from fact based observations in order to improve relationships and engage authentically with cultural humility to counter racism within the 21st Century.
Othering, Outliers and Allies
Learn the impact of othering through a highly experiential workshop. We use movement and role-play to engage our understanding of implicit and explicit bias and its affect on the communities of the youth we serve. Understand the impact of “othering”and intersectionality through an hands-on approach. Movement and role-play engage our understanding of equity, prejudice and the effect of systemic injustice on underserved communities.
The Science of Micro-aggressions
Learn about dominant culture perception and how micro-aggressions, insults and invalidations can undermine learning success and growth. Learn how to address and identify microaggressions, and invalidations that can undermine an inclusive community. Explore how implicit and explicit bias can affect the most well-intended individuals. Utilize tools to help participants reflect and develop increased social awareness and create personal action plans to dismantling racism within their sphere of influence.
Language to LEAD
Learn proven methods to encourage students' sharing of personal and cultural significance to cultivate confidence and individual investment in collective work. Learn how to utilize language and empathy that can influence connectivity and improve trust and accountability.