Legacy Changers Worldwide provides a unique suite of diversity and inclusion growth opportunities
to assist organizations in moving the needle in their DEI work.
Please let us know what questions you may have as you consider these options.
Diversity Dialogues: Advancing Engagement, Empathy, & Empowerment
Diversity Dialogues: Advancing Engagement, Empathy, & Empowerment provides a 6-week interactive forum to encourage bravery in exploring the difficult conversations need related to diversity. Diversity Dialogues defines diversity as encompassing age, disability (acquired or developmental), race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, affectional preference, socioeconomic status, Indigenous heritage, national origin, gender identity, gender expression, size, and assigned sex at birth. There are many individual experiences of societal oppression related to any of these identities. Facing, understanding, empathizing, and acting against oppression requires a level of bravery that many people lack. Diversity Dialogues provides language, resources, education, and Legacy facilitator guided safety to help individuals engage in these difficult conversations and gain the courage to act. Within the virtual weekly process group (as well as between session activities) all participants, regardless of background will
- Explore their own cultural, ethnic, and/or social group identities
- Clarify the intersection of their multiple identities and the ways in which they interact with the world
- Explore the ways in which personally held values and implicit bias can collide
- Learn about historical context related to discrimination, past and present, and the influence on the current sociopolitical realities
- Discover ways to talk about and explore difference without causing offense
- Explore the development of cultural humility and its role in one’s ability to develop empathy and relationship
- Clarify and move forward with a personal plan for ongoing personal learning and growth
- Clarify the meaning of social justice advocacy and identify a plan for personal social justice engagement.
Legacy instructional staff will provide weekly synchronous (live) facilitation of the course, as well as provide guidance in using the between-session online platform.
The Diversity Dialogues Master Class
The Diversity Dialogues Master Class is a train-the-trainer platform is designed to help potential facilitators in building the foundation needed for effectively guiding discussions on diversity, personal growth, and social justice. Within the virtual weekly meeting (as well as between session work), this 6-week program is meant to help future facilitators
- Identify steps for assisting others to explore their own cultural identities and expression
- Practice skills needed for facilitating difficult dialogue around diversity
- Demonstrate communication and clarifying skills needed for facilitating understanding between diverse individuals
- Demonstrate skills for fostering and validating diversity through relationship
- Demonstrate skills for fostering and validating diversity through group process
- Leverage group process factors such as universality, interpersonal learning, altruism, and existential factors for developing empathy and cohesion between diverse individuals
- Demonstrate five (5) necessary skills for encouraging bravery in group member engagement related to responding and providing feedback
- Utilize an empirically validated measure for improving group participation outcomes
- Identify at least 1 aspect of their social advocacy identity
Legacy instructional staff will facilitate the course synchronously each week (live) and provide guidance in using the between-session online platform. The additional option for post-course consultation is available as participants move into the role of group facilitators for their organization.
Diversity Dialogues Reading Circles
The Diversity Dialogues Reading Circles are 6-week book discussions on critical diversity-related topics. These groups can open the door to learning, perspective-taking, discussion, understanding, growth, and unity. Each 6-week book discussion is facilitated by a Legacy Changers, Diversity Dialogues Facilitator who will guide readings and discussions. Check out the offerings below and feel free to request more information.
Reverend Dr. Charles A. Houston, APC, NCC
Associate Licensed Professional Counselor
Book title: I’m Still Here
Author: Austin Channing Brown
About: “…an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how White America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals…Austin Channing Brown’s first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a White man. Growing up in majority-White schools and churches, Austin writes, “I had to learn what it means to love blackness”, a journey that led to a lifetime spent navigating America’s racial divide as a writer, speaker, and expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. In a time when nearly every institution (schools, churches, universities, businesses) claims to value diversity in its mission statement, Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice. Her stories bear witness to the complexity of America’s social fabric – from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls to the boardrooms at majority-White organizations… I’m Still Here is an illuminating look at how White, middle-class Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the listener to confront apathy, recognize God’s ongoing work in the world, and discover how Blackness – if we let it – can save us all.”
Book title: Between The World And Me
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
About: “In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris
Book title: White Fragility
Author: Robin Diangelo
About: “In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people'” (Claudia Rankine)…In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.”
Getting Started with Diversity Dialogues
At this time, all Diversity Dialogues training is done synchronously via ZOOM.
Your organization’s journey can begin by completing the request for consultation form, access the form by clicking the link below.
New training engagements can begin quarterly, based on your organization’s desired time frames.
Continuing Education for Clinical Staff
For clinical and direct care staff providing mental health treatment for diverse populations, there is an additional layer of knowledge required beyond personal growth and awareness provided through Diversity Dialogue groups. The development of culturally responsive treatment skills is an ongoing professionally developmental process for all clinicians and supervisors. Through its sister company Legacy Changers Training Institute for Mental Health Equity & Justice, a chosen selection of the following continuing education workshops can be made available to organizationally identified clinical mental health supervisors and counselors, social workers, and clinical and non-clinical staff from related disciplines.
Our Courses
Racial & Cultural Diversity 1: Approaching Ethical & Culturally Informed Intervention & Supervision
Culturally informed clinical intervention and supervision that considers race, culture, privilege, & oppression.
Racial & Cultural Diversity 2: Working with Intergenerational Trauma
Assessing & conceptualizing intergenerational trauma in clients through an antiracist clinical lens.
Social Determinants of Health, Marginalization, and Racial Trauma: Intersecting Factors in Ethical Mental Health Treatment
Impact of implicit bias and social determinants of health on mental health presentation and using FIT intervention.
Racial Trauma Intervention Basics: Working with Racially and Culturally Diverse Clients
A clinical overview of racial trauma, how to conceptualize its development, and how to broach conversations with clients about racial trauma.
Therapist’s Questions About Race, Diversity, & Advocacy
Answers to therapist’s questions on diversity topics such as: “privilege”, “white privilege”, racial trauma, self-care, micro aggression in the workplace and creating dialogue between professional colleagues.
Culturally Informed Telemental Health Supervision
Dealing with crises, supervise anxiety, & racial and cultural differences within the distance supervision relationship.
Effective & Ethical Self-Care: Post Pandemic Through Today
Maintaining wellness despite the personal & professional tolls of the COVID-19 pandemic that have placed workers at risk for compassion fatigue & burnout.
The Advanced Clinical Supervisor: Next Level Tools for Ethical Supervision
Advanced supervision model covering critical developmental stages, cultural-responsiveness, and ethical decision-making.
Working with Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Children
Practical tools for treating Oppositional Defiant Disorder in children
Effective Clinical Supervision
Development, Maintenance and Evaluation of Mental Health Clinicians
Continuing Education Options for Your Clinical Staff
Group training rates are available for small, mid, and large-sized organizations.
Offerings are provided in via asynchronous On-Demand format (pre-recorded and available at any time) and LIVE interactive webinar (synchronous pre-scheduled dates available from which you can select). Depending on trainer availability, onsite training is also possible. Your organization’s journey can begin by completing the request for consultation form found on our website in the link below.
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