*Registrants will be granted access to course materials and recordings for 60 days after each session.
Our BIPOC Inclusion Lab provides brave spaces for ENGO staff to share experiences, resources, and best practices to foster BIPOC-welcoming and affirming workplaces. This Community of Practice consists of six, two-hour sessions held weekly.
Our BIPOC Inclusion Lab offers ENGO staff the opportunity to:
The BIPOC Inclusion Lab is for ENGO staff who are interested in exploring BIPOC Inclusion strategies with your colleagues and taking those learnings back to your organization. Whether your organization is at early or advanced stages of BIPOC Inclusion, expect to engage in real talk with an intimate group of your peers in a brave, virtual, facilitated space. This isn’t a lecture-style course: this is a Community of Practice where attendees are expected to actively participate, share experiences and resources, and lean into the challenging conversations that foster true change.
Who should attend from your organization? While we believe that all staff have a role to play in BIPOC Inclusion, consider sending staff whose job roles related directly to HR, People and Culture, and/or JEDI. You are welcome to send more than one staff member. Previous attendees have found that sending staff from different levels and job roles allows the organization to get the full BIPOC Inclusion picture.
As this program is designed for ENGO staff, it may not provide the most impactful experience for ENGO Board members, ENGO volunteers, or people from grassroots (volunteer-run) ENGOs. People from non-ENGO, non-profit sectors are welcome to join us, keeping in mind that the content has been designed with the ENGO sector in mind.
The BIPOC Inclusion Lab is designed for organizations who are ready to explore strategies specific to policies, processes, and culture, and discuss how to use BIPOC inclusion principles to bring a transformative lens to their organizations. All participants automatically become part of our burgeoning JEDI Alumni Network, designed to keep up the learning momentum and deepen peer networks.
This initial session is focused on building trust and safety in the group and getting to know each other. We will take an in-depth look at the concept of psychological safety, discuss why it is essential to organizational BIPOC inclusion initiatives, and explore how intersectionality and colonization factors in.
Colonization has created a world in which White/European people hold the most privilege. This has significant impacts on BIPOC inclusion, yet identifying and coming to terms with our own privileges can be uncomfortable. We will explore how White privilege leads to guilt and fragility, as well as identifying and coming to terms with our own privileges across a range of dimensions.
BIPOC inclusion isn’t only about hiring BIPOC staff – its also about fostering workplaces where their perspectives are valued, and where they can grow and thrive as their true selves. We will discuss how to map power flows, how power is shared (and with who), and explore best practices for democratizing power in your organization.
Mentorship may get all the attention, but it can only do so much on its own. We will discuss the differences between these three terms, best mentorship practices and structures, as well as exploring how allyship and sponsorship can support mentorship efforts, as well as bring standalone benefits.
In ENGO workplace culture, staff are typically expected to go above and beyond due to their dedication to “the cause”. This approach increases the risk of burnout for everyone but has special impacts on BIPOC staff. We will discuss the concept of organizational cultures of care, explore different caring strategies and impacts, and identify how to integrate care into all aspects of organizational culture.
In the final session, we bring everything together with a solid work plan designed to set you up for success to take your learnings back to your organization and discuss how to drive transformative change via BIPOC inclusion.
Anna-Liza Badaloo (she/her) of Anemochory Consulting is a facilitator, un-learner, and inclusive communicator. Viewing JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) through the lens of empathy, her decolonized, intersectional approach helps organizations build capacity by implementing communities of practice, trainings, and empathy-driven frameworks designed to foster organizational justice. By centering equity-deserving communities, she helps organizations understand how colonial structures impact organizational health.
Session 1: Settler Colonialism 101
Introduce ENGO representatives to the fact that colonization is a structure and not an event. Identifies key ways that colonialism moves through individuals and organizations.
Session 2: Positionality
ENGO representatives learn how to articulate their social location within a settler colonial state, and in relation to potential Indigenous partners.
Session 3: Inherent Indigenous Governance 101
Introduce the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues. Examples provided.
Session 4: Building Better Relations
ENGO representatives will road test ways they can implement previous workshop key points to re-imagine partnerships with Indigenous nations.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
Session 1: Diagnosing Settler Colonialism in the Enviro Sector
Participants will be asked to share ways in which they have diagnosed and traced power in social justice movements and/or in the ENGO sector. This workshop will make space for discomfort as part of promoting decolonization.
Session 2: Inherent Indigenous Governance
A mix of advanced and introductory theory, this workshop delves into legal and political pluralism, naming the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues.
Session 3: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
ENGO participants are introduced to theories and examples describing the Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the “Shadow State.” Purpose is to show how settler colonialism structures civil society.
Session 4: Decolonizing ENGO-First Nation Partnerships
This workshop delves deep into how ENGOs can partner with Indigenous nations beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex while promoting deference to inherent Indigenous political leaders.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
The Indigenous only space will be collaborative in nature but critical in approach. This track is a space for Indigenous folks within the ENGO sector to come together to discuss their experiences and work, with an eye to taking a position on what the sector might need to do in order to promote decolonization. Participants will use the first session to define our goals for the remaining three meetings. Therefore, session topics named here are proposals only.
Session 1: Naming the Cannibal: Settler Colonialism in the ENGO Sector
Session 2: Proposed topic: Reflections on working in the ENGO Sector
Session 3: Proposed topic: Centering Indigenous Thought in the ENGO Sector
Session 4: Proposed topic: Visioning a Decolonial Environmental Sector
Cost: Free
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