Mindfulness builds clarity and fortitude in community work for activists, therapists, lawyers, parents, social workers and all. Being mindful increases our ability to recover from stress, avoid being reactionary, and ultimately be more present and productive in service of your life, family, clients and teams.

Mindfulness builds clarity and fortitude in community work for activists, therapists, lawyers, parents, social workers and all. Being mindful increases our ability to recover from stress, avoid being reactionary, and ultimately be more present and productive in service of your life, family, clients and teams.

These sessions will combine the Feldenkrais Method and Qigong to embody the process of finding new pathways for movement and our right relationships to history. (This session will take place mostly laying on the floor on one's back. Those who are interested but may not be able to start on the floor, please be in contact with lauren@bethechangeconsulting.com who will get you in touch with the practitioner for support)

These sessions will combine the Feldenkrais Method and Qigong to embody the process of finding new pathways for movement and our right relationships to history. (This session will take place mostly laying on the floor on one's back. Those who are interested but may not be able to start on the floor, please be in contact with lauren@bethechangeconsulting.com who will get you in touch with the practitioner for support)

Come learn how to use simple poses as a powerful tool to practice self acceptance and increase awareness. Learn moves that are easy to follow and yet have been shown to reduce stress and balance moods. No previous yoga experience necessary - all levels welcome!

An Unapologetically BIPOC Space! Come learn how to use simple poses as a powerful tool to practice self acceptance and increase awareness. Learn moves that are easy to follow and yet have been shown to reduce stress and balance moods. No previous yoga experience necessary - all levels welcome!

We are living and working in challenging times. Some of us are carrying that stress in our bodies. Additionally, we all relate to our varied bodies differently as the world does and need to recognize how that shows up in an able-bodied world. Identify and name specific muscles in the body that may be causing symptomatic muscular pain. Use practical tools to reduce/alleviate said pain. Sections of the body that can be massaged via virtual space: Neck, Shoulders, Upper arm, Lower arm, Jaw & Face area.

We are living and working in challenging times. Some of us are carrying that stress in our bodies. Additionally, we all relate to our varied bodies differently as the world does and need to recognize how that shows up in an able bodied world. Identify and name specific muscles in the body that may be causing symptomatic muscular pain. Use practical tools to reduce/alleviate said pain. Sections of the body that can be massaged via virtual space: Neck, Shoulders, Upper arm, Lower arm, Jaw & Face area.

Bring your basic art supplies and make a mess that honors all the parts of you. Rooted in the connections between racial justice and disability rights movements, we'll honor the resilience everyBODY brings to the space. Come ready to color, scribble, fingerpaint or journal and create a self-care action plan to show up for yourself with dignity and respect.

This session is an affinity space for those who identify as white. Bring your basic art supplies and make a mess that honors all the parts of you. Rooted in the connections between racial justice and disability rights movements, we'll honor the resilience everyBODY brings to the space. Come ready to color, scribble, fingerpaint or journal and create a self-care action plan to show up for yourself with dignity and respect.

Experience a blend of therapeutic movement, invigorating breathing exercises and guided relaxation in preparation for a relaxing inner journey bathed in traditional instrument sounds.

This space is an affinity group for all those people who identify as male/masculine people of color. Experience a blend of therapeutic movement, invigorating breathing exercises and guided relaxation in preparation for a relaxing inner journey bathed in traditional instrument sounds.

Using ancient martial arts wisdom to increase focus, attention and vitality. Experience the energy created and released by these simple powerful movements.

This session is an affinity space for people of color. Using ancient martial arts wisdom to increase focus, attention and vitality. Experience the energy created and released by these simple powerful movements.

Youth development organizations can advance racial justice by activating civic mindfulness bringing a future of equity into the present. When practitioners integrate and model antiracist pivots, they can empower youth of color  to be critical and feel empowered to  respond to racism in their daily lives. In this training, youth development practitioners will examine how  our individual experiences in white dominant institutions have shaped our leadership and influenced the way we think about organizational and program practices. Together we will unpack and unlearn to visibilize new strategies that help us re-design program structures  to actively promote a culture of equity and inclusion.

In this session, participants will:

• Review: How the youth development field has changed to best support youth in being their authentic selves?
• Unpack how structural racism impacts our young people and staff?
• Examine the impact of our identities on how we lead and hold power.
• Identify ways to name and dismantle our dominant culture practices. 
• Network and learn from one another.

Because most organizations are patterned against dominant culture belief-systems, those that work fast, write well, show up on time, prep intensely, and speak in bullet points will often be elevated as successful, while those with different learning and working styles will be critiqued and left behind. When dominant culture is de-centered, room can be made for other gifts and strengths that our organizations need.

In this session, supervisors will reflect on ways to dismantle dominant beliefs about “high performing vs low-performing employees” and translate our Supervision for Equitable Employee Development Framework into practical strategies to integrate culturally responsive techniques such as:

• Relational Trust in the supervisor-supervisee relationship
• Consistently celebrating success through concrete descriptive feedback
• Drilling into challenge areas to identify a skill to grow/develop, and designing creative interventions to build and practise new skills.
• Transparently visibilizing ones thinking about success using a matrix system - to get feedback on where dominant culture has taken over, as well as to visibilize current and desired states for an employee.

Why does everything seem to take longer on ZOOM, yet we are expected to do more? Working from home has offered some new dips and turns. The simple in-person reminders have turned into 3 texts, 2 emails and 1 ZOOM call. Going virtual should not result in less collaboration and flattened meetings with one-way conversations driven by PowerPoints. The sense of urgency is making us put the product before people and process.

In this session, participants will:

• Look at how a sense of urgency and the worship of the written word has shifted virtual meeting spaces
• Learn how to use a range of simple online tools incorporate in weekly meetings and sessions
• Integrate collaborative brainstorming and support transparent planning

In the field of youth development, developing an understanding of trauma helps practitioners see, understand and assess the young people around them, and design better interventions to support them.  In this workshop, participants will begin by developing a holistic approach to mental and physical well-being, and then build a working definition of interpersonal, intergenerational, and systemic (such as racism, sexism and classism) trauma in the world around us. Holding a resilience and healing analysis, we will then unpack how the body naturally protects itself and heals itself from traumatic incidents. Through this analysis, we will be able to hold space for ourselves and others with more compassion and intelligence, to ultimately create more connected communities.

In this session, participants will:

• Develop a working definition of trauma
• Understand how trauma impacts us on a somatic level
• Learn a process to hold space for trauma (our own trauma/our young people’s trauma)
• Use a values reflection exercise as a strategy to build ones capacity to rebuild intimate connections
• Experience a group resiliency strategy

The word facilitation comes from the french word Facile, which means to make things easy for others. The role of the facilitator is to enable, empower and inspire a group to meet its goals. Dominant culture thrives on individualism, an urgent pace driven by paternalistic assignment of tasks, and the stifling of conflict, so transformative culture rests on collaboration, big picture context setting, authentic grapplic and debate to arrive at collectively held decisions, and transparent implementation plans that allow for accountability. Inclusive facilitation is the key to this type of power-sharing for collective impact.

In this session, participants will:

• Explore the art of facilitation as a tool to shift a groups’ experience of themselves, lift their belief of their capacity to act, and leverage group dynamics to reinforce the idea that two are better than one, and 10 are better than two!
• Learn strategies to deepen relational trust amongst your team members
• Visibilize how to support various learning styles, and design meeting agreements that will allow for more transparency and inclusion

The best facilitators can design learning conditions that make every participant feel like a brilliant member of a learning community. Some of the greatest violence in our systems is initiated when we send some people the message that they are not smart enough, equipped enough, or worthy of being part of a team. Our facilitation methodology is built on the principles of equity and inclusion – that every person has something uniquely valuable to contribute, and that the facilitator unpacks and constructs learning with the group, rather than as a lecturer or instructor.

In this session, participants will:

• Layer a social justice analysis onto your facilitation skills to amplify the appreciation of diversity and inclusion in your work.
• Unpack the many places strong facilitation skills can help make better learning experiences
• Learn strategies to design an interactive agenda that supports diverse learning styles.
• Learn how to work with conflict in a session to invite dialogue and debate
• Practice holding space for differing voices and needs in a room.