OUR MOST REQUESTED TOPICS
ANTI-RACISM AND EQUITY
Anti-Black Racism
Anti-Racism and Equity
Moving Beyond Diversity and Inclusion
Anti-Racist Strategic Planning
POLICY AND GOVERNANCE
Canadian Government
Organizational Policy
Youth Programming and Engagement
RESEARCH CONSULTING
Community Based Research
Co-Creative Knowledge Generation
Community Integrated Resource Development
Community Engagement & Outreach
Multi-Stakeholder Consultation
RELEVANT LEARNING MATERIALS
Every training service includes presentation slides and a manual. We contextualize the content to the client’s sector.
SPACE FOR HONEST DIALOGUE
Content is important, but we place equal weight on the space we create for mediated and honest dialogue and goal-setting.
INFORMED BY ADULT-LEARNING RESEARCH
Our training curriculum is informed by adult-learning research, so practices like peer-to-peer learning are emphasized.
WHAT IS A CO-DESIGN APPROACH?
Co-design is a well-established approach to creative practice that reflects a fundamental change in the traditional designer-client relationship. This approach goes beyond consultation by building and deepening equal collaboration between citizens affected by, or attempting to, resolve a particular challenge. A key tenet of co-design is that users, as ‘experts’ of their own experience, become central to the design process. Co-design is a well-established approach to creative practice that reflects a fundamental change in the traditional designer-client relationship. This approach goes beyond consultation by building and deepening equal collaboration between citizens affected by, or attempting to, resolve a particular challenge. A key tenet of co-design is that users, as ‘experts’ of their own experience, become central to the design process.
HOW DO WE DO IT?
We begin by identifying the needs, objectives, demands, and sensitivities of our clients and their audiences, which catalyzes a detailed work plan and regular check-ins for review and approval of content. See more in Intake Process. In contract development, we leverage intergenerational collaboration through our network of experienced advisors and Elders. We support clients in doing the same. This is one way we make our spaces and curriculum accessible to diverse abilities and circumstances.
In contract development, we leverage intergenerational collaboration through our network of experienced advisors and Elders. We support clients in doing the same. This is one way we make our spaces and curriculum accessible to diverse abilities and circumstances.
HALF-DAY TO FULL-DAY TRAINING
The service deliverer will create a half (3 to 5 hour) to full-day (6 to 8 hour) training. These trainings are always accompanied with a learning manual and slides, breaks, and an accessible approach to service delivery.
MULTIPLE-DAY TRAINING
The service deliverer will create a two to five day training (up to 8 hour/day) that focuses on more general topics in a requested context. These trainings are always accompanied with a learning manual and slides, breaks, and an accessible approach to service delivery. The service deliverer will create a two to five day training (up to 8 hour/day) that focuses on more general topics in a requested context. These trainings are always accompanied with a learning manual and slides, breaks, and an accessible approach to service delivery.
WORKSHOPS
The service deliverer will create workshops at conferences and larger events tailored for members of the public. Workshops up to 2.5 hours; otherwise, it is a half-day training. Learning manuals and presentation slides may be included.
TRAINING REPORTS
The training report option is great when an organization is seeking to implement the training learnings into an action-oriented checklist and to capture the participant feedback. The report later serves as a resource for organization members and for year-end reports.
BILINGUAL SERVICES
We can offer our research services in both French and English, in both delivery and learning materials. To translate documents into either language, the client will be charged for translation hours at the training prep and training report rate.
ACTIVATING DIVERSE LEADERSHIP 1: PARTNERING WITH THE MARGINS ACTIVATING DIVERSE LEADERSHIP 2: PARTNERING BEYOND THE USUAL SUSPECTS
These two-hour capacity-building sessions provide participants test cases, tools, resources, and actionable insights to cultivate and maintain partnerships with Black/African Canadian communities to advance goals and establish authentic relationships based on reciprocity and trust.
Gather actionable insights and perspectives.
Establish goals and identify priorities.
Determine who needs to be involved.
Discuss a variety of decision-making options.
Evaluate potential outcomes.
Strong teams increase employee engagement and enhance innovation. Using well-established behavior and thinking measurement tools, participants will gain a deeper understanding of themselves and how their actions affect others in the workplace. This workshop builds on the cognitive preferences of team members and shows them how to grow stronger together. Participants in this workshop will learn how to: Understand personal behavioral preferences and thinking styles. Improve communication among team members. Develop a collaborative culture. Manage and resolve conflict. Strong teams increase employee engagement and enhance innovation.
Using well-established behavior and thinking measurement tools, participants will gain a deeper understanding of themselves and how their actions affect others in the workplace. This workshop builds on the cognitive preferences of team members and shows them how to grow stronger together. Participants in this workshop will learn how to: Understand personal behavioral preferences and thinking styles. Improve communication among team members. Develop a collaborative culture. Manage and resolve conflict.
This capacity-building session provides tools to effectively engage Black/African Canadians. This session establishes culturally responsible and sensitive approaches to meaningful relationship development.
Key themes;
How can we bring people together across differences to actively engage with challenges facing our communities? What are the real issues that concern Black/African Canadians? How can we ask questions creatively to activate meaningful dialogue? What skills, resources, and capacities do under-represented communities already have that can be built upon? The workshop offers new creative tools for change that can resource you and your projects, groups, communities, and organizations.
This capacity-building session enhances participants’ understanding of LEAG and provides adequate supports in developing an empowering advisory group for organizations, businesses, and institutions. This two-hour session ensures that participants leave with innovative tools and best practices through our curriculum and community of passionate leaders. Every problem is an opportunity for an innovative solution. In this workshop, participants will learn critical thinking skills that will allow them to assess, address and take action to solve problems. This capacity-building session enhances participants’ understanding of LEAG and provides adequate supports in developing an empowering advisory group for organizations, businesses, and institutions. This two-hour session ensures that participants leave with innovative tools and best practices through our curriculum and community of passionate leaders. Every problem is an opportunity for an innovative solution. In this workshop, participants will learn critical thinking skills that will allow them to assess, address and take action to solve problems.
Participants will learn how to:
Solve problems as a team or as an individual. Evaluate problems and identify methods to resolve them. Use collaborative approaches to address and resolve problems. Assess individual strengths and the capacity to resolve problems. Connect ideas and reframe problems. Analyze the feasibility and probable impact of potential solutions. Participants will learn how to: Solve problems as a team or as an individual. Evaluate problems and identify methods to resolve them. Use collaborative approaches to address and resolve problems. Assess individual strengths and the capacity to resolve problems. Connect ideas and reframe problems. Analyze the feasibility and probable impact of potential solutions.
Our SPO Boot Camp is a customized initiative for people who are serious about transforming the status quo of business operations and stepping into the fourth industrial revolution with an entity that will have maximum impact on communities.
This session will help you define and deliver social impact. Over three months, using our process expertise, we engage your senior leadership team to build on your knowledge and experience, to develop practical & strategic priorities. We tailor engagements to fit your needs and budget and ensure your key stakeholders are engaged and supportive of the final result.
The Sessions Include:
Facilitated internal focus groups and working sessions Secondary or primary research High level or detailed content for your strategic plan Publication-ready online and print reports. Our strategic planning work produces actionable plans for impact everyone can support. Our work with senior leaders and operations teams helps bring your strategic plan to life, including timelines, accountabilities, and reporting. Our engagement sessions and focus groups help you gather insights and buy-ins to drive your impact further faster. Governance sessions build the capacity of your board to engage with the community, look to future trends and manage risk.
With a commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility at the center of our work, at SETSI we have developed a series of Anti-Black Racism capacity building sessions for non-profits and the private sector. We have aligned with our organizational mentors to make a commitment to intersectionality at the heart of work.
Capacity Building Session Purpose:
To develop a common understanding, shared language, and collective energy amongst your staff about anti-racism and anti-oppression. To make anti-oppression foundational, moving it from a marginal to a mainstream piece of work, building from the commitments of intersectionality. To support the development of an organizational anti-oppression praxis, taking time for cycles of reflection and action, and an anti-oppression lens, through which all of our work can be viewed.
Presumptions and Inquiries:
You – organizationally – have great power, voice, and resources – how can we really use them meaningfully?
What are your internal actions to dismantle racism and white privilege?
How can we centre liberation, sovereignty, and solidarity at every level of work?
How may we encourage self-reflection and exploration of identity and history so that we can be aware of positionality in this work?
What meaningful contributions can you make from your positionality as an organization?
Who needs to be in which conversations, and who leads?
How can we integrate our solidarity into our work as a lens and not as an extra project?
How can you enable shared access to training / common foundations of learning for staff and members?
What modes of cultural safety and intercultural competency are appropriate/required for your stage of organizational transformation?
Brief Description Social entrepreneurship combines the passion of a social mission with the business ideas of discipline, innovation, and determination.
Why should we collectively unpack ethics in social innovation? In the Social Finance, Social Economy, Social Procurement, Social Acquisitions, Community Economic Development and Cooperative ecosystems ethics is often assumed?
There are practical, theoretical and profound reasons why broadening our understanding of social entrepreneurship and social innovation is important. The values required to scale the aforementioned ecosystems must be rooted in an ethical framework.
How should one think about the ethics of innovation?
There are clear ethical rules that govern innovation in specific sectors. In this capacity building session, we will interrogate models and through a participatory presentation as well as dialogue and deliberation participants will be edified and learn best practices from our collective lived experience.
SETSI Ethics & Social Innovation Capacity Building Session
– Addressing Racial Microaggressions: Tools, Strategies, and Discussions
– Understanding Anti-Black Racism: The Foundation
– Anti-Black Racism & Tools for Organizational Change
– Unpacking bias & unconscious bias capacity building workshop
– Community Impact Bond Workshop/Webinar
– Community Benefits Agreement Primer Workshop/Webinar
– Social Acquisitions
– Campaign Development
– Branding Workshop for Conscious Brands
– The Grind & Glory
– From the Ground Up
– Governance Primer
– Bridging Profit, Passion & Purpose
– Change Agent to Ecosystem Builder
– Managing Your Online Presence
– The Power of Story Telling
– Iron Sharpens Iron
– Peer Driven Capacity Building Session
– Purpose and Profit
Inquiries contact:
Jillisa Brown
Director of Community Engagement, SETSI
[email protected]