Diversity & Social Justice: A Starting Place

Welcome to Virtual Academy

This focused 90-minute training offers a condensed yet impactful experience, designed to fit into your busy schedule. You’ll engage with concise, practical content that you can immediately apply to your personal and professional life.

In just an hour and a half, you'll explore how diversity, identity, and bias shape our interactions and team dynamics, gaining insights into building stronger, more inclusive relationships. You’ll also have access to downloadable resources and the trainer’s contact information for follow-up questions. Upon completion, you’ll receive a certificate recognizing your participation.

Overview

Unlike other online diversity trainings bogged down with history and theory (and often times the educator’s personal agenda), this course introduces concepts that participants can apply to their own lives immediately. Regardless of participants’ identities and lived experiences, an understanding of how we coexist, interact, and impact one another is imperative to build better teams, better connections, and deeper relationships. Spend an hour reflecting on how you fit into the conversation of diversity. The foundation of social justice work is understanding the intersection of our own unique biases, perceptions, and expectations of entitlement. Our experiences, choices, and impact—both intentional and unintentional—matter. This is the starting place.

Programme Overview  

Participants will gather (and fetch a pen and paper) as we start with introductory concepts of responsibility and agency. We move from our own denominational understanding through basic terminology through a personal inventory of our own life. Then, we collectively pool our perspectives for an engaging Q&A session that can continue forever through WhatsApp!

What will you learn?

In this course, we are covering:

• Recognize difference and engagement habits

• Grow from personal reflection and embrace new experiences

• Feel safe and prepared

• Identify Conscious and Unconscious Bias, both positive and negative

• Learn the basics of Recruitment, Retention, and Fit

• Understand the importance of Curiosity, Generosity, Authenticity, and Vulnerability

Who should attend?

Anyone in a company involved in visual communication and research & insights in the broad sense of the word: branding, packaging, retail experience, online and offline communication.

Level of learning? 

Perhaps you have been told that reviewing the basics should be easier, but here we will take ourselves seriously as the best tool we have to work with. Jess will use herself as an example to get participants to reflect on who and how their own lives have shaped who and how they show up in this world. Intense and funny!

What is the Virtual Academy?

A dynamic 90-minute virtual training with an interactive format to encourage engagement. You’ll have access to helpful resources and the trainer’s contact details for further support. Plus, the training will be available on-demand for up to 12 months, allowing you to revisit the content whenever you need a refresher.