All sessions are facilitated by Tauri Laws-Phillips
April 14: MICRO-AGGRESSIONS IN THE WORKPLACE – 2 Hour Workshop – $50 tuition
Micro-aggressions are subconscious actions and the result of stereotypes. While overt racism is easy to spot, micro-aggressions exist in the unconscious and are harder to uncover. While the intention may be micro, the damage is not. This workshop will focus on understanding how to identify and eliminate them from your workplace.
April 21: CREATING ANTIRACIST ... view more »
All sessions are facilitated by Tauri Laws-Phillips
April 14: MICRO-AGGRESSIONS IN THE WORKPLACE – 2 Hour Workshop – $50 tuition
Micro-aggressions are subconscious actions and the result of stereotypes. While overt racism is easy to spot, micro-aggressions exist in the unconscious and are harder to uncover. While the intention may be micro, the damage is not. This workshop will focus on understanding how to identify and eliminate them from your workplace.
April 21: CREATING ANTIRACIST PARADIGMS IN YOUR WORKPLACE – 2 Hour Workshop – $50 tuition
When confronted with race issues, you may have heard people respond that they are “colorblind”. While that was the prevailing practice some time ago, the current paradigm is to be actively anti racist. This workshop will outline how to create policies that create and support equity in your business. We will work together to create the basic paradigms to integrate diversity throughout your business.
May 5: ALIGNING EDI WITH MY ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS -4 Hour Workshop – $75 tuition
Take a critical dive into your goals, roll up your sleeves. Create an actionable plan to make your organization more equitable.
May 12: DEVELOP AN EDI PROGRAM FOR YOUR WORKPLACE – 4 Hour Workshop – $75 tuition
Create an actionable year-long plan for equity and diversity. Learn to create policy that supports equality internally and externally.
May 19: UNLOCKING UNCONSCIOUS BIAS – 4 Hour Workshop – $75 tuition
This educational and interactive workshop opens channels of empathy to increase the understanding of biases and their effects on us all. Learn to address differences while deepening our individual understanding of personal bias. We will explore how bias affects businesses and the arts community.
May 26: FACILITATING EDI CONVERSATIONS -2 Hour Workshop – $50 tuition
Equity and diversity conversations are steeped with emotion. This workshop will focus on learning to facilitate difficult EDI conversations in the workplace. Learn to open channels of communication and create conversations that release judgement and bring people together.
June 2: BUILDING EMPATHY & GROWING EQUITY AS BUSINESS LEADERS – 2 Hour Workshop – $50 tuition
Empathy: what it is, the skills required and how to deepen our capacity as leaders.
Empathy is a considerably large part of being an effective leader. This workshop focuses on building empathy to grow equity effectively and efficiently as a business leader.
June 9: ALLYSHIP & BYSTANDER INTERVENTION TRAINING – 4 Hour Workshop – $75 tuition
An ally is a person who actively extends their privilege to groups that do not share that privilege. Allyship is a process and everyone has more to learn. Allyship involves a lot of listening. Sometimes, people say “doing ally work” or “acting in solidarity with” to reference the fact that “ally” is not an identity, it is an ongoing and lifelong process that involves a lot of work. Understand the steps to being an ally in the workplace and create a plan for how to intervene when situations arise.
EDI Workshops is a collaboration between Austin Creative Alliance & Coldtowne Theatre.
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
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