October 3, 2024 at 9:00 am to 11:00 am PDT - Virtual Event
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. Appreciative Inquiry, a successful approach to fostering positive change, expands our focus to identifying, exploring, and amplifying strengths and opportunities in DEI (e.g., people, processes, systems of work, communities, and families).
Learn how to apply Appreciative Inquiry’s tools, processes, and principles into your Intercultural Competence, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ICDEI) practice. 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. Together, let’s rise to the call of action.
EVENT DATES & TIMES:
Session 1: RENEW | Session 2: RELATE | Session 3: CO-CREATE | Session 4: RESOLVE |
October 3, 2024 | October 10, 2024 | October 17, 2024 | October 24, 2024 |
9:00am-11:00am PDT 12:00am-2:00pm EDT 6:00pm-8:00pm SAST | 9:00am-11:00am PDT 12:00am-2:00pm EDT 6:00pm-8:00pm SAST | 9:00am-11:00am PDT 12:00am-2:00pm EDT 6:00pm-8:00pm SAST | 9:00am-11:00am PDT 12:00am-2:00pm EDT 6:00pm-8:00pm SAST |
PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
Co-Creating a More Intercultural, Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive World Using Appreciative Inquiry will support you in taking intercultural competence, diversity, equity and inclusion (ICDEI) actions with AI principles, process and tools. This course is not a diversity, equity and inclusion training, an unconscious bias assessment, nor an anti-racism webinar; however, your trainers will share their expertise in the fields of ICDEI and OD, introduce their theory and change model, and provide valuable resources to strengthen your ICDEI work.
You are encouraged to come with a ICDEI project (big or small, personal or professional) that will deepen your learning through immediate application. Together, 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.
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 practices and tools.
- Develop your own ICDEI project at work, home or in your community using Appreciative Inquiry.
- 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:
This virtual series 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. Each week, participants will meet 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.
INVITATION: Create a safe container and build a community of practice.
DIALOGUE AND 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.
INVITATION: Introduce “Spaciousness Thinking Partners” peer mentoring and coaching model.
DIALOGUE AND 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.
INVITATION: Strengthen participants’ ICDEI practices by using generative questions to inquire into possibilities.
DIALOGUE AND 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.
INVITATION: Harvest participants’ ICDEI project feedback, review, and explore.
DIALOGUE AND 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 EVENT 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.
- 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:
WANT TO TRAIN YOUR TEAM?
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 to participate. Please complete the CONTACT US form to learn how to bring a this program to your team, organization, or community.
Facilitators
Marlene Ogawa (she/her) specializes in designing and facilitating strategic innovative interventions internationally. She has worked with business, NGO and government youth development practitioners in entrepreneurship, mentorship, education policy & design, information technology for development and volunteer initiatives. Over the years Marlene has supported cross and multi-sectoral collaborations, engaging and facilitating gatherings with diverse groups within government, business, civil society and communities.
Marlene is committed to and passionate about supporting global community initiatives that inform policy. She uses Appreciative Inquiry (AI) towards activating and building agency of groups, envisioning and actively changing their systems. Her work in building relational connectedness and collaborative leadership informs the approaches she uses to take participants from individual to collective systems work. She believes that enhancing peoples’ capacity leads to successful program delivery and sustainable change to positively impact systems and society. Learn more about Marlene by visiting her LinkedIn Profile.
Ayanda Zaca (he/him) is passionate about diversity, inclusion, and equity work with a strong focus on communications He is an advocate for social justice and cohesion, particularly along racial and gender lines, both in his personal and professional life. Previously, Ayanda worked for various sized companies both local and multinational, in a variety of industries like logistics, engineering, construction and telecommunications.
Ayanda holds degrees in Marketing/ Communication Management as well as Sport Science, both from the University of Pretoria. He believes that true empowerment and leadership comes through the acceptance of responsibility. Learn more about Ayanda by visiting his LinkedIn Profile.