The Isms Collaborative presents:

Making it Real: Promoting Conversations about Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace

A "train the trainer" workshop for diversity champions & health professionals in public health, healthcare, and social services

Featuring Experiential Activities from the Mosaic Project

June 6, 2011
8am-5pm
Samuel Merritt University, Oakland, Ca

In order to create an inclusive workplace, we need to develop meaningful and effective ways of understanding, listening, and responding to challenges around differences.  This training will demonstrate a variety of experiential activities that can be used by organizations who want to create a more multiculturally competent work environment. Through years of institutional experience engaging in these sensitive topics, The Mosaic Project has created a menu of training activities that safely, honestly, and constructively address diversity, power, privilege, and prejudice, while supporting participants in reflecting on how to become allies for ourselves and others.

Through hands on practice with experiential exercises, you will:

● Expand your self-awareness and understanding of individual, team and organizational issues related to the dynamics of “difference” at work

● Explore how to create a ‘third culture’ at work, where all feel more included, understood, engaged, appreciated & able to bring their diverse talents, skills, backgrounds and perspectives to the workplace

● Understand how this type of experiential training could be a useful first step towards initiating constructive conversations about diversity and isms in your organization

THE MOSAIC CONSULTING PROJECT

The Mosaic Consulting Project focuses on three fundamental sectors of the San Francisco Bay Area community: companies, community-based organizations, and educational organizations. While the MCP curriculum can be customized for specific issues and goals, there is a core set of trainings for each community segment. The core corporate trainings focus on engagement in the workplace, team building, valuing and leveraging diversity, conflict resolution, and assertive communication. More details can be found at www.mosaicconsultingproject.org

CHERINE BADAWI, Curriculum and Training Director

Citizen to both Egypt and the United States of America, Cherine had the privilege of growing up on two sides of the planet. Her area of expertise lies in the development and facilitation of experiential social justice and conflict resolution programs for young people around the world. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and her Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. Prior to joining The Mosaic Project, Cherine worked as a journalist for several years in the Middle East and the US. She also wrote the Footprint Handbook to Egypt. Before coming to The Mosaic Project, Cherine worked with several Bay Area non-profit organizations including the American Friends Service Committee and Challenge Day. In 2005, Cherine was awarded the prestigious Rotary World Peace Fellowship, which provided her with the opportunity to support the International Bureau of Education-UNESCO in developing a handbook to support member states’ peace education initiatives. Following graduate school and her work with UNESCO, Cherine served as an intrinsic member of the inaugural voyage of The Scholar Ship, a transnational floating university, working as an experiential education specialist and community builder. Cherine is delighted and honored to serve as Curriculum and Training Director of The Mosaic Project.

Sponsored by:
The Isms Collaborative, the Center for Health Leadership, & the California Pacific Public Health Training Center (CALPACT), at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Major funding also provided by:
Samuel Merritt University, Alameda County Department of Public Health, John Muir Health, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, and Alta Bates-Summit Medical Center

Isms Collaborative:
Roberto Almanzan, Contra Costa Crisis Center
Lynn Baskett, John Muir Health
Kimberly Bradley, Children's Hospital Oakland, Center for the Vulnerable Child
Arianna Caplan, School of Public Health student
Tiffany Clarke, School of Public Health student
Lincoln Casimere, City of Berkeley, Division of Public Health
Thea Daniels, Children's Hospital Oakland
Miriam Eisenhardt, Samuel Merritt University, School of Nursing
Michael Huff, The African American Health Disparity Project
Mia Luluquisen, Alameda County Department of Public Health
Jill Miller, Children's Hospital Oakland, Center for the Vulnerable Child
Christoph Sandoval, S.F. Crisis Care
Ellie Schindelman, UC Berkeley, School of Public Health
Kitsy Schoen, Kaiser East Bay, Dept of Psychiatry, Behavioral Health
Christine Smallwood, Alta Bates-Summit Medical Center
Dawna Vann, Contra Costa Health Services