Learning makes the doing infinitely more impactful. Start building a skillful toolkit that helps you perceive injustice, think critically, and act in turn. Diversity and inclusion training is a life-long journey, and our workshops provide the roadmap, the sustenance, and the innate sense of direction. Let’s get moving!
Our diversity and inclusion training is tried and true, and packed with tangible takeaways. Through engaging activities, reflective prompts, 'aha' moments, and skill-building perspectives, workshops give participants the tools to apply learnings in all aspects of their lives.
We highly recommend assessing your organization's knowledge levels when choosing workshops. In Intermediate and Advanced workshops, we build on and circle back to content learned in Intro workshops. So if you feel your team needs to build their foundational knowledge, we definitely recommend taking Intro workshops first!
"The team at Bakau Consulting is incredibly knowledgeable, professional, and inspiring. Our team has appreciated the collaborative approach taken to tailoring learning opportunities, ranging from access to conference sessions through our sponsorship, to customized workshops for our staff and 1:1 coaching sessions. We have worked with a few different facilitators, which were all engaging, inclusive, and genuine. Our team has widely benefited from the thoughtful conversations on complex challenges which are always tailored to be applicable directly to our work. We would highly recommend their services to all organizations seeking meaningful change in their equity and inclusion practices"
Fundamentals of Anti-oppression dives deeper than your typical diversity and inclusion workshop. In this workshop, participants are given the opportunity to explore systemic oppression, social justice, privilege, identity and allyship through a variety of engaging activities. Through self-reflection, community- based inquiry, lessons from history and collaborative problem solving, participants gain the knowledge and skills to view the world through an anti- oppressive lens.
This is a pre-requisite to all our other sessions.
Fundamentals of Gender & Sexuality is an informative and educational session that educates participants on gender and sexuality as concepts, appropriate language, and respectful conduct around gender and sexuality. This workshop is a non-judgemental, safer space to ask questions and learn a wealth of information about gender diversity, sexual orientation, pronouns and strategies for meaningful inclusion. This workshop helps teams to create inclusive environments for folks of all genders and sexualities.
Fundamentals of Anti-Racism is an immersive and in-depth workshop that exposes our complicity in racist power structures that exist all around us. This workshop is both personal and political: an exploration into bias, systemic oppression, language, cultural appropriation and intersectionality. Participants gain a deeper understanding of the manifestations of racism from systems of power to workplace microaggressions and most importantly gain the skills to speak up and combat racism in their communities.
This is a pre-requisite to Unlearning Anti-Blackness.
Inclusive Communication zooms in on language and communication practices that bring teams closer together for more respectful workplaces. This workshop combines media literacy, cultural safety and LGBTQ+ inclusion to dive deep into conversations about inclusive language. Participants can expect to practice with real world scenarios, mind map best practices for communication both in person and online and discover meaningful ways to foster inclusion with dialogue.
Disrupting Unconscious Bias provides participants with an engaging and interactive opportunity to investigate and unpack their own personal and organizational biases. Providing educational information on the science behind cognitive bias and how it informs the decisions we make every day. Unconscious biases are default assumptions that show up individually, interpersonally, and systemically, outside of conscious awareness. Often these biases conflict with our conscious values and can be activated in specific scenarios.
We’ll talk about the connection between bias and oppression. In order to minimize our participation in upholding oppression we need to disrupt our own biases.
Unlearning Anti-Blackness is a deep dive into unpacking the manifestations of anti-Black racism in our society. The session weaves together key events in Black history, contemporary examples of racism and tangible actions for allies. Unlearning Anti-Blackness explores themes such as cultural appropriation, solidarity, activism, intersectionality, Black and queer identity, microaggressions, intergenerational trauma and transformative justice. This workshop is recommended for groups who have intermediate to advanced social justice knowledge and competency as well as a core foundation of anti-racist vocabulary.
In Inclusive Meetings, participants will consider three big topics: power and privilege, unconscious bias, and microaggressions. We examine the relationship between social, systemic, and personal aspects of power. We invite participants into an illuminating conversation about how to notice harmful power dynamics and recognize when to advocate and uplift others, embrace vulnerability and the variability that comes with a diverse workforce, and ensure people have what they need to succeed at work and life. This workshop provides great tangible tools for more inclusive virtual and in-person meetings.
Active Listening training provides attendees with tangible skills to make folks feel better heard and held. Where active listening skills tend to be acquired in support-centred professional or educational settings, this workshop provides a space in which folks across professional fields can strengthen this muscle and take their skills into the workplace and beyond. Active listening training utilizes phrases, tones, body language, and anti-oppression principles to provide attendees with elevated skills for inclusive conversations.
In Inclusive Leadership, our workshop tailored to leaders, managers and decision-makers dives deep into conversations about the ethical use of power. We talk about bias and de-biasing, listening behind the lines, and having courageous conversations. Essential to this part of the workshop is an openness to learn. Participants will learn how to ask practical, compassionate questions and develop better active listening skills and improved means of supporting others.
