Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
A palpable sense of inclusion, or its absence, profoundly shapes office culture. While your organization may not have originated the inequities within society, they persist in the workplace nonetheless. Failing to address them adeptly constrains our ability to fully engage our teams.
When organizations lack the requisite capacity and skills to foster equality, their efforts risk being perceived as token gestures or may even diminish the sense of inclusion. All Thrive imparts the skill to foster awareness of unconscious bias while equipping teams with practical language and frameworks for fostering safe and constructive dialogues.
Understanding Power Dynamics
Understanding the power dynamics inherent in our society is critical to creating a safer and more equitable space for everyone. These dynamics affect all our relationships and are often tied to our unconscious patterns and biases.
The complexity of these dynamics, coupled with emotions like shame, guilt, anger, or fear, makes it challenging to have safe and productive conversations about them. By fostering a better understanding of power, we can develop deeper empathy and the ability to relate, even with groups we are not part of.
Introductory workshops
If you are looking to create an inclusive and safe workplace, your team will need a framework and language they can use to have constructive discussions.
Our introductory DEI workshops start by delving into reflective practices that explore our personal experience and biases. This provides a basis for building empathy and understanding, which leads into a structured practice that will revolutionize how inclusion is developed in the workplace.
A great option for large groups, the workshops will get everyone 'on the same page' when it comes to addressing equality in the workplace, and gives them the skills to have critical conversations.
Developing Inclusive Culture
Workplace culture is a reflection of the societal systems that promote or limit equality. Although you may not be aware of how it impacts your day to day work, you will find aspects of these systems in your communication, schedules, policies, values and beyond. Without exploring this, it is very difficult to make meaningful change.
To develop a truly inclusive culture, this process is a deep dive into your organization. We will be addressing the systems, structures, and aspects of leadership that are having the biggest impact on developing inclusivity in the workplace. These longer term engagements focus on large scale, long lasting change.
Power and Ethics
Our DEI work is deeply rooted in the The Right Use of Power™ Framework, which focuses on how power can be used ethically to promote well-being and the common good.
