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Dates: Thursdays, October 30, November 6, 13, 20, 27 & December 4, 1-2:30 PM ET
Cost: $100 (Zoom Meeting, camera and audio enabled)
Maximum 25 participants.
The JEDI Foundations Lab is designed for organizations who are ready to explore strategies specific to policies, processes, and culture, and discuss how to use inclusion principles to bring a transformative lens to their organizations.
Consider this course an introduction to the challenges faced by equity-deserving communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and 2SLGBTQIA+.
All participants automatically become part of our burgeoning JEDI Community of Practice, designed to keep up the learning momentum and deepen peer networks.
Session 1: Psychological Safety & Intersectionality
This initial session is focused on building trust and safety in the group and getting to know each other. We will take an in-depth look at the concept of psychological safety, discuss why it is essential to organizational inclusion initiatives, and explore how intersectionality and colonization factors in.
Session 2: Privilege, Guilt, & Fragility
Colonization has created a world in which some groups hold more privilege than others. This has significant impacts on workplace inclusion, yet identifying and coming to terms with our own privileges can be uncomfortable. We will explore how privileges lead to guilt and fragility, as well as identifying and coming to terms with our own privileges across a range of dimensions.
Sessions 3, 4, and 5 will leverage our foundational learnings to explore inclusion strategies for different equity-deserving communities.
Session 3: BIPOC Inclusion Strategies
Participants will submit their real-life JEDI challenges to gain support and co-create solutions. To bring an intersectional lens, each session will include a panel of diverse ENGO staff to share lived experiences and shed light on inclusion challenges. Session 3 explores how ENGOs can change their organizational culture, processes, and policies to improve BIPOC inclusion, including an all-BIPOC panel.
Session 4: Disability and Neurodivergence Inclusion Strategies
Our second inclusion strategy session focuses on people with disabilities and neurodivergent people. Participants will submit their real-life JEDI challenges to gain support and co-create solutions. Session 4 explores how ENGOs can change their organizational culture, processes, and policies to improve inclusion, including a panel of people with disabilities and neurodivergent people to share lived experiences and shed light on inclusion challenges.
Session 5: 2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusion Strategies
Our third inclusion strategy session focuses on people from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Participants will submit their real-life JEDI challenges to gain support and co-create solutions. Session 5 explores how ENGOs can change their organizational culture, processes, and policies to improve inclusion, including a panel of 2SLGBTQIA+ people to share lived experiences and shed light on inclusion challenges.
Session 6: From Learning to Organizational Transformation
In the final session, we bring everything together with a solid work plan designed to set you up for success to take your learnings back to your organization and discuss how to drive transformative change via improved inclusion strategies and awareness.
Complete this application form. We are accepting applications on a rolling basis until we reach capacity (25 people), or by October 24, 2025.
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Anna-Liza Badaloo (she/her) of Anemochory Consulting is a facilitator, un-learner, and inclusive communicator. Viewing JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) through the lens of empathy, her decolonized, intersectional approach helps organizations build capacity by implementing communities of practice, trainings, and empathy-driven frameworks designed to foster organizational justice. By centering equity-deserving communities, she helps organizations understand how colonial structures impact organizational health.
Session 1: Settler Colonialism 101
Introduce ENGO representatives to the fact that colonization is a structure and not an event. Identifies key ways that colonialism moves through individuals and organizations.
Session 2: Positionality
ENGO representatives learn how to articulate their social location within a settler colonial state, and in relation to potential Indigenous partners.
Session 3: Inherent Indigenous Governance 101
Introduce the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues. Examples provided.
Session 4: Building Better Relations
ENGO representatives will road test ways they can implement previous workshop key points to re-imagine partnerships with Indigenous nations.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
Session 1: Diagnosing Settler Colonialism in the Enviro Sector
Participants will be asked to share ways in which they have diagnosed and traced power in social justice movements and/or in the ENGO sector. This workshop will make space for discomfort as part of promoting decolonization.
Session 2: Inherent Indigenous Governance
A mix of advanced and introductory theory, this workshop delves into legal and political pluralism, naming the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues.
Session 3: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
ENGO participants are introduced to theories and examples describing the Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the “Shadow State.” Purpose is to show how settler colonialism structures civil society.
Session 4: Decolonizing ENGO-First Nation Partnerships
This workshop delves deep into how ENGOs can partner with Indigenous nations beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex while promoting deference to inherent Indigenous political leaders.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
The Indigenous only space will be collaborative in nature but critical in approach. This track is a space for Indigenous folks within the ENGO sector to come together to discuss their experiences and work, with an eye to taking a position on what the sector might need to do in order to promote decolonization. Participants will use the first session to define our goals for the remaining three meetings. Therefore, session topics named here are proposals only.
Session 1: Naming the Cannibal: Settler Colonialism in the ENGO Sector
Session 2: Proposed topic: Reflections on working in the ENGO Sector
Session 3: Proposed topic: Centering Indigenous Thought in the ENGO Sector
Session 4: Proposed topic: Visioning a Decolonial Environmental Sector
Cost: Free
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