Workshops

Training

Align your workplace culture with your values.

Our courses and workshops are designed to facilitate learning, experimentation, and connection. Once we’ve identified knowledge gaps in your organization, these experiences can be customized to provide targeted learning.

Workshops are broken out into three 90-minute sessions, which include small group breakout discussions. Sessions can be completed in a single day or spaced out over a timeline determined by your organization.

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Workshops are ideal for you if:

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You want to bring more awareness to your team.

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You’re looking for expert facilitators to lead your team through challenging and joyful learning experiences.

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You understand no one is great at a new skill right away. Practice is the key to building our skills and our confidence in using them.

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What Clients Say About Us

Elevate Oregon

We knew we needed to take our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from the realm of the abstract, "of course we believe in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; we live it daily" to real and concrete actions that will allow us to keep our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the heart of our work. [Construct the Present’s] work with our staff, youth, and Board was phenomenal and helped people lean into the work and feel confident in the direction that we are going, seeing how this work, even if uncomfortable, will help Elevate Oregon thrive.

Multnomah County

We hired Construct the Present to help our managers and supervisors explore the concepts of whiteness in supervision and white supremacy culture in the workplace. They listened carefully to our needs, and developed a curriculum that was engaging, thought provoking and informative. Our managers commented that this was one of the best equity trainings they've been exposed to as a supervisor, and helped set them at ease with such a heavy topic. I would gladly engage with Construct the Present for future training initiatives!

ARQ

Construct the Present did an amazing job working to ensure that our team arrived at the same baseline understanding of important DEI issues through a mix of head and heart experiences and trainings. Since consulting with CTP, it has become common practice for team members at ARQ to confidently bring up the topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion as it relates to almost any department, issue, or initiative. We recognize that DEI work will be a continuous and essential effort, and we are very happy to now have more knowledge and frameworks for continuing this important work at ARQ. Thank you to the CTP team!

Our Workshops

Diversity in the workplace

Unpacking Diversity Equity & Inclusion

An entry point for anyone curious about DEI

We start the conversation by sharing definitions and building common language as we explore strategies to counter bias, identify injustice, and create an inclusive environment that offers agency and a voice to all members.

Recommended for:

Organizations that are new to DEI, revisiting DEI after a hiatus, or are onboarding new employees.

PrivilegesUnderstanding Privilege

Unpacking inequities from a systemic level

We’ll work together to define and explore dominant culture, white privilege, and allyship. Some of your team members may be new to these concepts. Others may already be familiar with them. White privilege impacts us all, and together we can raise our collective understanding.

Recommended for:

  • Teams with intermediate DEI experience
  • Homogenous and multicultural teams alike
  • People leaders, executives, HR business partners, and policy makers

identity and privelegeIdentity & Privilege

Learning new strategies and tools for inclusion

Our personal identities impact us every day consciously and unconsciously. We’ll engage in an energizing conversation that explores how our identities impact our roles at work and share experiences among our colleagues. Expanding our view of the world is the key
to filling in gaps in understanding, so we can work toward a more equitable future together.

Recommended for:

Everyone

White Allyship in the WorkplaceWhite Allyship in the Workplace

Constructive conversations about our different identities

This workshop is for teams that want to get better at acknowledging differences and practice having productive discussions about identity and race. What does it mean to be a white ally, especially in the workplace? What does it mean to have the support of white allies? How can the white members of our communities have conversations about race that are productive and respectful? We’ll investigate the different identities in your group and learn how to talk about lived experiences in ways that are accepting and free of judgment.

Recommended for:

  • Teams with diverse frontline staff and mostly white leadership and executives
  • White and light-skinned teams and groups
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