Facilitation
Purposeful Inclusion & Transformative Leadership: A reflective and interactive experience workshop for student leaders of any scope to craft transformative leadership practices through an inclusive perspective. Leadership is about community and how those communities are formed and maintained. Walk with Dr. Worokya Duncan as she guides you in understanding how we came to understand who is “us” and who is “other” is key to developing leadership practices that encourage active participation.
When Fair Is Just Wrong: Many institutions aim for representational diversity without an understanding of inclusion. Furthermore, when diversity and inclusion are framed in the concept of fairness, we maintain inequitable and unjust in our communities. Learning the historical *framework* creating the unjust and inequitable society relieves guilt, while providing strategies to take responsibility for the climate in your institution, and for its positive evolution. Stop mindlessly using the branding terms of diversity and inclusion, and shift to transformational ownership of modeling justice. Join Dr. Worokya Duncan in creating a “win-win” for everyone in your organization.
Mirror, Mirror: Don’t you hate hearing, “We are looking to increase diversity in this company,” or “Do we have enough diversity here?” We are ALL diverse, however, our society has become invested in making sure we silence the ways in which our wonderful differences are already showing up in all we say and do. Learn to have the conversations about some of our Core Cultural Identifiers (CCIs): socio-economic status, race and ethnicity, gender, ability, sexuality, and religion/belief structures, and how they create the entirety of our identity. Let’s live from a space of genuine authenticity. Let Dr. Worokya Duncan help you take the masks off. The mirror wants to reflect the real you. You owe it to you. You owe it to the world.
The Unholy Trinity: Unconscious Bias, Micro-aggressions, and Gaslighting: What would happen if we really believed the best about each other? What’s stopping us from believing about others what we would like to be believed about us? Though we are surrounded by scores of people with stories that differ from our own, we sometimes go with the stories that confirm stereotypes, even when what’s right in front of us refutes our worst ideas. Our beliefs about others, and the subsequent conversations have the power to build or destroy. We can create those spaces when we untangle ourselves from those inaccurate and often dangerous unconscious biases, offensive microaggressions, and the tendency to make ourselves the victim when we may be the ones doing harm. Join Dr. Worokya Duncan to explore how we can have mutually beneficial and affirming conversations. Let’s build.
Worokya is also available for keynote addresses and workshops
- Board and Trustee Development
- Strategic initiatives for diversity, equity & inclusion
- Identity-Based workshops