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Inclusion and Belonging

Inclusion and Belonging

This 2 part in-person workshop will help participants learn more about what a community of inclusion and belonging looks like. The objective is to generate a collective understanding of inclusion and belonging, assess the organization/business for inclusion (using a rubric Usawa’s team created), and learn how to be more inclusive. Participants will leave the workshop with actionable ideas for improving inclusion at their organization or business.

Part 1 – Monday, May 6th (setting a foundation)

  • Generate a collective understanding of inclusion and belonging.
  • Understand some guiding principles of inclusion
  • What it means to be accountable

Part 2 – Monday, May 13th (assessing and planning for inclusion)

  • Assess inclusion within your organization/business (or community)
  • Become familiar with Usawa’s Inclusive Assessment Tool
  • Generate ideas for improving inclusion
  • Leave with some ideas and actions toward inclusion

What you get with this workshop:

  • An opportunity to connect with other businesses/organizations working toward inclusion and belonging.
  • Two or more facilitators to provide a highly interactive workshop.
  • A slide deck to prepare for the workshop, including definitions and links to additional resources.
  • Use and practice with Usawa Consulting’s Inclusive Assessment Tool (The tool is not to be sold or transferred to others outside of the workshop. This can inform your work and relationships within the community) This tool is a draft and will be subject to modification.
  • A Usawa Consulting Certificate of Completion.
  • Access to the Usawa Consulting if you have follow-up questions.

PLEASE REGISTER BY APRIL 29th

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Solidarity Rate

$125
  • I frequently stress about my basic needs and don't always meet them
  • I rent lower-end apt or have unstable housing
  • I am unemployed or underemployed
  • I have no access to savings
  • I have no or very limited expendable income
  • I do not have family wealth
  • I sometimes have to support family members or other dependents
  • I do not benefit from institutional support and social privilege because of multiple aspects of my identity (multiple of the following identities describe me: Person of color, female, trans, queer, disabled, neurodivergent, immigrant, undocumented or refugee)

Sustainability Rate

$175
  • I am employed
  • I have access to healthcare
  • I have access to adequate housing
  • I might have access to financial savings
  • I have some expendable income
  • I have some family support or have benefitted from family support throughout my life (my family/parents/spouse pay for part of rent/phone/healthcare etc)
  • I fall somewhere in the middle of the social matrix - For example, I may be white and trans, or a middle-class able-bodied person of color

Movement Supporter

$225
  • I can comfortably meet all my basic needs like food, housing, and transportation
  • I own my home or rent a high-end apartment
  • I am employed or don't need to work to meet my needs
  • I have regular access to healthcare
  • I have regular access to financial savings
  • I have an expendable income
  • I have family wealth and have benefitted from family support throughout my life (my family/parents/spouse pay or have paid for part of rent, phone, healthcare, etc)
  • I benefit from institutional support and social privilege because of aspects of my identity (multiple of the following identities describe me: white, male, cis, straight, able-bodied, neuro-normative, US-born)