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  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Professional Development
  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Based Services
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  • About Us
  • Services
    • Equity and Inclusion
    • Professional Development
    • Health and Wellness
    • Community Based Services
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  • Services
    • Equity and Inclusion
    • Professional Development
    • Health and Wellness
    • Community Based Services
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Intercultural Development, Diversity and Inclusion

Consulting and Training

WE’RE DIVINE consulting supports organizations and individuals with meeting and expanding their commitment to understanding and navigating differences. 


We create supportive spaces that requires all to increase their capacity to “hold space” for difficult conversations and develop a deeper understanding of diverse perspectives and practices; this creates mutual responsibility for growth and development. 


Individuals are asked to sit in discomfort and lean into the unknown areas of discussion and content that are often avoided. 


Our Approach

We go beyond the standard Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion approaches to combating racial justice and effective ally ship. That is the out-of-date ineffective and insensitive approach that expect marginalized communities to hold space for the experience and emotional response of the dominate society.


  • We create a sense of safety and support for all
  • We challenge with compassion
  • We are proactive and not reactive
  • We offer a structured tailored approach that provide opportunities for all levels of staffing (Board, leadership, direct staff, volunteers) to participate in shared activities and reflective experiences. 
  • We envision organizational culture that celebrate authentic characteristics
  • We help organizations evaluate polarizing policies and practices that are polarizing 
  • We help eliminate occurrences of implicit biases and cultural misinterpretations. 
  • We promote strategic disruption
  • We promote growth, so belief systems will be challenged. 


We Are Evidence Based 

  • We are certified IDI Qualified Administrators
  • We are  trained in Dr. Mitchell Hammer's Intercultural Development Model (IDI) and Intercultural Conflict Style assessment.  


We integrate 

  • Dr. Milton Bennet’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity Michelle Le Baron Bridging Cultural Conflicts
  • Dr. Joy De Gruy Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome in addition to countless scholars and community experts in the racial justice field


 

Intercultural Development, Diversity and Inclusion

Self-Awareness and Cultural Lens

 The goal is to apply and “Equity Lens” throughout your agency. We will work towards embedding an intercultural framework into your daily practices. This integrated approach will foster leadership development, enhance social and emotional health and wellbeing for staff and client, work towards eliminating biases and culturally insensitive practices.


Building Self Awareness

  • Identity Development and your Cultural Lens 
  • Implicit biases, self-awareness & accountability
  • Unpacking your cultural lens, beliefs, values and owning your biases
  • Discovering your cultural identity
  • Understanding cross-cultural experiences 
  • Unpacking cultural norms and cultural misinterpretations
  • Cross-Cultural Communication-assessment and coaching
  • Building cross cultural communication and conflict resolution
  • Intercultural Communication.
  • Intercultural Conflict Style (ICS) and Intercultural Developmental Inventory (IDI) and Dr. Milton Bennett’s 


Establishing Expectations, Roles, and Responsibilities

  • The Impact of Cultural Misinterpretations & Lack of Cultural 
  • Undoing the “isms.” &  Interrupting Bias-Calling in vs Calling out 
  • Intercultural Coaching for Leadership 


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Intercultural Development, Diversity and Inclusion

Unpacking Power, Privilege & Oppression

Interrelations, power dynamics, roles & responsibilities

  • Eliminating Marginalized Practices
  • Strategic Disruption and Disruptive Engagement


Power, Privilege, Oppression and Marginalization

  • Unpacking Intersecting Identities and Intersectionality 


In this session we will discuss the fundamentals of Intersectionality and intersecting cultural identities. Intersecting identities is the concept that an individual’s identity consists of multiple, intersecting factors, including but not limited to gender identity, race, ethnicity, class (past and present), religious beliefs etc.


  • Understanding Power and Privilege-Disrupting the Us vs. Them- Up until recent events most people avoided polarizing topics concerning religion, gender, race, and racial differences.


  • Systemic Marginalization. Unfortunately, many “systems” are not excluded from these societal norms. This  session will help those recognize how injustice is played out in interpersonal relations across a variety of settings.


  • Building Anti- Racist and Anti- Oppression practices. In this session we will dive deeper into racism (current and historically) to create opportunities towards building anti-oppression practices in everyday moments.


  • The Trauma of Racism. How do I help those make sense of experiences that may not exist in your world? We will introduce mental health related terms such as Racially Evoked PTSD, Racial Battle Fatigued and other related experiences of Historically Marginalized communities.

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Supporting Children and their Families Series

Supporting Children and their Families Series


Children across the country are asking questions, watching their families and communities grieve, and trying to make sense of the world. Many parents struggle to find the words to talk to their children about race, racism, protesting, and police violence. Caregivers feel ill-prepared and may find it difficult to process their own emotional trauma. Caregivers may also believe children are too young to talk about race and racism.  


  

  • Parents and caregivers will be given tools for creating supportive spaces for courageous conversations, focusing on racial injustice, and raising racially conscious families. 
  • Parents/ caregivers will be given tools for developmentally appropriate language and resources to help children process their experiences. 



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