Keynotes and workshops
Organizational Hardlines
Lunch & Learn Demo
Thursday November 13 | 12-1 PM EST
The Liberation Nexus Lab offers sessions on a variety of topics. Our sessions range from 75 minutes to half- or full-day and are tailored to meet your organization's needs and speak to its unique work in the world.
Organizational hard lines are the ethical boundaries that an organization abides by in its daily work internally and in interacting with the community. Knowing your organizational hard lines is especially important given the current political turmoil we are experiencing in the nonprofit sector and across the country.
In our work with organizations, we rely upon ethical frameworks to help guide the conversations around organizational hard lines and navigate difficult tensions while maintaining personal and organizational values. Each framework offers different perspectives and tools for making principled decisions under challenging circumstances.
We offer a facilitated session for individual organizations to build shared understanding and practice when it comes to organizational hard lines.
In this facilitated session, we will:
Explore three ethical frameworks (ethics of care, soildarity ethics, and ethics of resistance) and apply these to your specific organization
Pose questions to help your organization identify its hard lines through a variety of different scenarios
Identify policies and practices that require updating within your organization
Identifying Your Organization’s Hard Lines:
Knowing How to React and When to Resist
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Illuminating Dominant Culture in Nonprofits
In this workshop, we will work together to shine a light on the invisible ways in which dominant culture shows up in our organizational processes and practices.
We will have an honest and eye-opening conversation with the goal of equipping participants with the knowledge and impetus to create change within their organizations
Mitigating Interpersonal Blind Spots (Pedagogy & Practice)
A 2- part series that allows participants to understand what constitutes a blind spot and the psychological impact of those victimized by them, followed by an opportunity to practice how to disrupt these problematic tendencies in real-time
Understanding the Difference Between Tokenism & Intentional Inclusion
A conversation that explores what tokenism is and how it harms, while understanding the crucial need for intentional inclusion. This workshop helps groups define tokenism and build a shared understanding of the difference between tokenism and intentional inclusion, and identify internal practices and policies that need attention.
Cycle of Socialization
An opportunity to explore how we’ve been socialized to categorize and understand the world around us and how this socialization might have negative impacts in the spaces we occupy.
Examining Systems
Building upon a deepening understanding of their own experiences, participants will engage in an examination of what it means to advance social and cultural cohesion in interpersonal relationships.
Board Service Through a Collectivist Lens
Nonprofit organizations are always looking to engage passionate, motivated community members to help with their cause, and nonprofit board leadership is an excellent way for individuals to give back to the community.
Also, as many nonprofit organizations continue to deepen their work centered around principles of collectivism and community, organizations need to embrace new ways of thinking and doing. This workshop will cover the basic requirements, roles, and responsibilities of board members while also reimagining alternatives to traditional systems and structures of board leadership.
Language Setting
Equity work happens at a systems, interpersonal and personal level. Ultimately, it begins with self-work and in relationship with communities we are a part of. As we work toward equity, it is important to take an opportunity to norm on some of the language we hear in the equity space and build a common entry point into dialogue with one another.
Gratitude
Participants explore how gratitude turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. This workshop helps individuals make sense of the past, bring peace for today, and create a vision for tomorrow.
Intersectionality
What do the term intersectionality mean? How does this concept relate to our everyday lives?
This workshop will explore basic definitions and allow everyone to engage with how this concept influences our daily lives. Understanding these concepts will provide a foundation for deeper learning and an opportunity to shift perspectives.
Family Engagement
Explore how to build capacity, allocate resources, and monitor progress for successful family and community engagement for public education, with a lens of cross-cultural access and understanding.
Deconstructing Womanhood
A deep dive into the complexities of what it means to be a woman, challenging stereotypes and celebrating individuality.