FOSTER DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (DEI) IN ALL SPACES
Traditional approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) focus on identifying and remedying problems. While this is necessary for change, it can perpetuate a deficit-based mindset and weaken relationships. With Appreciative Inquiry, we can expand the focus to identifying, exploring, and amplifying strengths in DEI (people, processes and systems of work, communities, and families).
Learn how to apply Appreciative Inquiry (AI) to create the social change of our time. This moment is opportune for AI principles and tools to help focus our work on intercultural competence, diversity, equity and inclusion (ICDEI) issues like #BlackLivesMatters, #MeToo, and #RefugeesWelcome. Rise to the call of action and come prepared to collaboratively inquire into what’s working and what’s possible to create the change we want to see in our workplaces, communities and family systems.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
This course is designed to support you in taking intercultural competence, diversity, equity and inclusion (ICDEI) actions with AI principles, process and tools. We invite you to come with a ICDEI project (big or small, personal or professional) that will ensure your learning through immediate application. We will help you identify the individual and collective strengths within your initiative, develop generative questions to engage in listening and storytelling for positive possibilities, and ensure you have an action plan to co-create a more interculturally competent, diverse, equitable, and inclusive destiny.
We will share our expertise working in the fields of ICDEI and OD, including our theory of change and model published in an Inclusive Leadership book (2020, Routledge*). However, this course will not be a diversity, equity and inclusion training, an unconscious bias assessment, nor an anti-racism webinar. We will provide links to those resources, some which will form part of the pre-work, as there are incredible colleagues who have devoted their life and work to building ICDEI knowledge and skill set deep dives. Join us in an upcoming training and learn how to apply our successful strengths-based strategy and relational processes for systems change!
DESIGNED FOR:
Anyone seeking to strengthen their Appreciative Inquiry practices and tools to increase their diversity, equity and inclusion work at work, home, or in their communities. This can include, but is not limited to:
- AI Practitioners and Students.
- Consultants.
- Coaches.
- Collaborative group leaders.
- DEI practitioners interested in Appreciative Inquiry.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
As a result of participating in this virtual series you will be able to:
- Actively contribute to a more intercultural competent, diverse, equitable and inclusive (ICDEI) world.
- Learn bespoke ICDEI Appreciative Inquiry practice and tools.
- Work on your own ICDEI project at work, home or in your community using AI.
- Establish a learning and accountability process and community for your AI ICDEI work.
- Create an Action Plan to make your DEI project’s destiny inevitable.
VIRTUAL SESSIONS:
The Co-Creating a More Intercultural Competence, Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive World with Appreciative Inquiry consists of synchronous (live sessions hosted through Zoom) and asynchronous (assigned reading and activities outside of class time) learning over the course of 4 weeks. During the training, participants will meet weekly for two hours to engage in a training session designed to guide you through the full range and depth of what it means to incorporate ICDEI into your living AI practice.
SESSION 1: RENEW
INVITATION: Create a safe container and build a community of practice.
DIALOGUE & ENGAGEMENT:
- Build understanding and trust through paired work and group shared agreements.
- Discuss and identify various diversity markers and explore the term intersectionality, with an additional AI lens.
SESSION 2: RELATE
INVITATION: Introduce “Spaciousness Thinking Partners” peer mentoring and coaching model.
DIALOGUE & ENGAGEMENT:
- Review and integrate Appreciative Inquiry principles, tools, and processes into each participant’s identified ICDEI project.
- Build, brainstorm, and provide feedback using the Spaciousness Thinking Partners model.
SESSION 3: CO-CREATE
INVITATION: Strengthen participants’ ICDEI practices by using generative questions to inquire into possibilities.
DIALOGUE & ENGAGEMENT:
- Reflect and explore how to surface and breakthrough hidden biases and limiting beliefs.
- Craft and use generative questions to center living AI and ICDEI ethos and values in your professional and personal processes.
SESSION 4: RESOLVE
INVITATION: Harvest participants’ ICDEI project feedback, review, and exploration.
DIALOGUE & ENGAGEMENT:
- Reflect and converge key insights and emerging wisdom to create a vast toolbox for practical application.
- Explore into the inner condition and external relationships (with both allies and antagonists) needed for successful action.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING INFORMATION:
METHOD OF DELIVERY
The synchronous (live) conversations will be delivered using Zoom. You can participate in these live events using a computer or tablet. You will receive the Zoom meeting information link and password closer to the start of the event. All course materials and activities are located online and can be found on Spaciousness Works online platform.
PRE-TRAINING WORK
Prior to the start of this training, participants will:
- Receive a confirmation email from The Center for Appreciative Inquiry containing event information, including a link to an intake form. Participants are encouraged to complete the form as soon as possible.
- Submit completed intake form. Upon submission, participants will receive an email invite from Spaciousness Works to join their online course platform.
- Log into Spaciousness Works online platform to browse instructional content, familiarize themselves with the platform, and post an introductory message.
PROGRAM OFFERED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
QUESTIONS?
Do you have questions about this training? Please email your questions to Kelly Stewart at Kelly@CenterForAppreciativeInquiry.net.
WANT TO TRAIN YOUR TEAM?
The Co-Creating a More Intercultural Competence, Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive World with Appreciative Inquiry can be delivered privately to a team, department, organization, or community and can be delivered in-person or virtually. We encourage a minimum of ten (10) members from any organization, group, or community participate. Please complete the CONTACT US form to learn how to bring a this program to your team, organization, or community.
