Countering Biases and Microaggressions
Online
Jan 7, 2025
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In this course, take part in reflective activities that expand your awareness of your unconscious biases. Develop practical and concrete strategies and techniques for addressing these biases, and noticing, identifying and responding to microaggressions.
Dismantling Barriers to Inclusion within Organizations
Online
Jan 14, 2025
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This course supports you in identifying barriers to inclusion and equity. Gain tangible steps, strategies and tools to build a safe, respectful and more equitable workplace. Understand how to foster collective accountability and responsibility, and implement meaningful and timely action toward such measures.
Transforming Intercultural Conflict
Online
Jan 23, 2025
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Achieve success in conflict resolution through negotiation strategies that cut through misunderstanding, miscommunication, impasse, and implicit bias. Tap into your intercultural intelligence skills to negotiate conflict effectively.
Organizational Equity and Inclusion: A Strategic Roadmap
Online
Jan 28, 2025
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Understand the differences between equity and inclusion, and how each contributes to the well-being, growth and safety of employees, customers and stakeholders. Consider different approaches to becoming more inclusive and equitable. Reflect upon your role within your organization, and create a toolkit that generates a more inclusive and equitable environment.
Thriving in Diverse Teams
Online
Feb 6, 2025
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Learn tools to build culturally diverse and inclusive teams. Enhance your skills to establish, motivate and lead your existing group toward inclusion. Develop strategies for transforming conflict and understand the influence of culture on teamwork.
Understanding Intersectionality and Identity
Online
Feb 25, 2025
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This course explores the meaning of intersectionality, and solutions for respectfully engaging with all members of our communities. Understand the complexity, range and depth of intersectionality by first paying attention to your identity, then considering others' narratives which are generated at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religious identity and ethnicity, among other social identities.
Addressing Power, Privilege and Systems
Online
Mar 4, 2025
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Build awareness around the ways in which white supremacy manifests as our workplaces grow more diverse, and take a close look at the impact that white supremacy has on both individuals and systems. Reflect on the tensions between the desire to champion anti-racism while experiencing the privileges that whiteness confers.
Leadership in Intercultural Contexts
Online
Mar 6, 2025
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Explore your leadership strengths and areas of growth and opportunity when leading in an intercultural setting. Complete the Intercultural Development Inventory and receive individualized feedback on your results. Reflect on your cultural identity, role and challenges in your own leadership context and develop a plan for applying your skills to create change and build inclusive communities and organizations.
Anti-Racism Strategies for the Workplace
Online
Mar 11, 2025
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Expand your understanding of anti-racist work. Deepen your understanding of the historic and current realities of racism in Canada, and learn from the perspectives and experiences of racialized professionals. Consider the commitment, courage and creativity required to dismantle racism within organizations both on micro and macro levels.
Identity and Intergroup Relations
Online
May 1, 2025
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Learn to integrate intercultural and social justice perspectives and take a critical look at intergroup relations. Review identity development models and explore how culture, ethnicity and race shape intercultural interactions. Look at the impact of systemic issues of power and privilege. Develop practical strategies for meaningful intergroup dialogue and engagement.
Engaging Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations
Online
May 22, 2025
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Help your organization make the most of diversity through increased creativity and innovation, enhanced employee engagement and better service to clients. Explore systemic barriers and inclusive practices in designing communication strategies with employees, clients and customers. Learn to develop policy frameworks and best practices; engage in community consultation; lead and supervise staff and volunteers; and plan programs.
Decolonizing and Creating Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Online
Jun 3, 2025
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Understand and learn how to decolonize your research, teaching strategies and tools. Start by examining the pedagogies you use now and understand how you can deconstruct them through a decolonization lens.