Harmonizing Differences: Cultivating Increased Trauma- Informed & Culturally Aware DEI+ Skills
April 2024 Resonant Energy DEI+ Workshop
Dear Resonant Energy Team,
It was a such a joy and honor to connect with you during this workshop! You are always welcome to reach out if you think I can be of further assistance!
Here’s to your team continuing to go from strength to strength with your critically-important work, increasingly with a trauma-informed and culturally-competent approach. I’m so looking forward to celebrating your progress and wins with y’all in the coming months and years ahead!
Much love and respect,
April
P.S. As a token of my appreciation for your incredible team, here’s a playlist I compiled for y’all!
Why We're Did This
Address specific concerns around microaggressions and implicit bias
Create an experience of inclusivity for all in the workplace
Acknowledge and reduce prejudices and inequalities
Aim to prevent frustrations among employees and indirectly guard against potential lawsuits
Not just about learning; but it’s about steadily increasing our capacity to foster a more inclusive and effective workplace
Expectations
Elevate intercultural competence and address critical areas such as implicit bias, neurodivergence, and microaggressions
Provide foundational knowledge and strategies to enhance inclusivity, understanding, and intercultural awareness
Foster a more inclusive and effective workplace through engaging and interactive training sessions
Have questions? You are welcome to contact April at info@joyousjustice.com.
Interested in working with April? You can fill out this form or schedule a free consultation to have a conversation with her!
Note: Please do not share or distribute Joyous Justice’s proprietary resources beyond your internal team without Joyous Justice’s prior written permission, per our Terms of Use. Thank you for your consideration and care!
KEY RESOURCES & CONCEPTS REVIEWED OR SHARED DURING THE WORKSHOP
An Overview on How to do Listening Partnerships
This is a resource pulled from Joyous Justice’s Grounded & Growing Trauma-Informed Leadership Program.
Sample Awesome DEI+ Mindset and/or Statement
This resource is from Joyous Justice’s Racial Justice Launch Pad Program that ran from 2021-2023.
Neurodiversity’s Competitive Advantage
Case for why org & companies should embrace neurodiversity.
Check out their Workplace Accommodation Toolkit!
Reminder: Being vs Doing - A team is not going to access that desired status of being an interculturally-competent multicultural team without not only enacting (doing), but embodying (being) DEI+ in ways that are authentic and compelling for you.
Top-line Overview of Grounded & Growing’s Trauma-Informed, Multi-Dimensional Leadership Strategy for Navigating Adversity, Triggers, and/or Complex Terrain
And here’s one tool / practice we covered mentioned that can support you in slowing down in a way that honors your dignity and that of the other party whose words or actions may have triggered you:
Overview of Liberatory Consciousness Model that Supports Teams in Nurturing Sustainable DEIR Progress and Avoid Major Challenges (Tokenism, PR or HR debacles or crises)
ADDITIONAL HELPFUL/AWESOME RESOURCES
……Placeholder in case I, we, or you think of other resources it would be helpful for me to share!
Bonus Resources!!
There are 140 Joyous Justice Podcast episodes (formerly Jews Talk Racial Justice w/ April & Tracie) that cover an array of subjects you may find interesting and helpful! You can access all the episodes here.
ALSO, you can access our popular "Flip the Script" resource here. It provides 10 generative reframes to strengthen your social justice and antiracist journey and leadership, through an intersectional Jewish lens, with corresponding linked Joyous Justice Podcast episodes for all 10 reframes to further support learning and professional development!