TRAININGS AND EDUCATION
Parker is an engaging speaker that teaches teams how to build connections with passion. As a facilitator, Parker works with organizations and individuals to examine personal attitudes, values and bias and how to obtain the principles, skills and qualities that will allow them to work successfully in cross cultural situations. As a speaker, Parker engages audiences in new thinking around what it means to be a diversity change agent, an inclusive leader and building capacity for transformational change.
Sample Workshops
WHY DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION IS VITAL TO ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS
Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? Diversity, equity, and inclusion have become buzzwords that have been placed strategically in organizational mandates, inspired the formation of DEI committees, and/or simply sparked critical dialogue around organizational culture. But do we know what these words really mean and how do we put this work into action in the environmental field. In this session participants will learn about how we incorporate DEI principles into our work and the importance of creating welcoming spaces.
Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? Diversity, equity, and inclusion have become buzzwords that have been placed strategically in organizational mandates, inspired the formation of DEI committees, and/or simply sparked critical dialogue around organizational culture. But do we know what these words really mean and how do we put this work into action in the environmental field. In this session participants will learn about how we incorporate DEI principles into our work and the importance of creating welcoming spaces.
EXAMINING UNCONSCIOUS BIAS
We all bring unconscious biases into the workplace. These deeply subconscious attitudes span race, gender, appearance, age, wealth and much more. They influence everything from the neighborhood you live in, to the employee you promote and the one you don’t. These biases are reflexively triggered without our knowledge, they are virtually unnoticeable. Our unconscious biases are hidden. Although we are unaware of them they influence our beliefs about and behavior toward others. This workshop focuses on the implicit attitudes or stereotypes that shape how we engage others and make decisions in the workplace.
We all bring unconscious biases into the workplace. These deeply subconscious attitudes span race, gender, appearance, age, wealth and much more. They influence everything from the neighborhood you live in, to the employee you promote and the one you don’t. These biases are reflexively triggered without our knowledge, they are virtually unnoticeable. Our unconscious biases are hidden. Although we are unaware of them they influence our beliefs about and behavior toward others. This workshop focuses on the implicit attitudes or stereotypes that shape how we engage others and make decisions in the workplace.
SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION
The combination of prejudice and institutional power can create systems that discriminates against some groups and benefits other groups. These systems enable dominant groups to exert control over target groups by limiting their rights, freedom, and access to basic resources such as health care, education, employment, and housing. Systemic oppression manifests on the individual, the interpersonal, the institutional, and the structural level. In this class we will examine the 4 I’s of oppression and how they are at play in our organization.
The combination of prejudice and institutional power can create systems that discriminates against some groups and benefits other groups. These systems enable dominant groups to exert control over target groups by limiting their rights, freedom, and access to basic resources such as health care, education, employment, and housing. Systemic oppression manifests on the individual, the interpersonal, the institutional, and the structural level. In this class we will examine the 4 I’s of oppression and how they are at play in our organization.
UNDERSTANDING PRIVILEGE & MICROAGGRESSIONS
Microaggressions are subtle verbal and non-verbal slights based on social group membership. Microaggressions are often the result of unconscious biases that lead to unintended discrimination against or degradation of those who are socially marginalized in a society, whether for skin color, gender, sexual orientation, age, language, origin, religion, disability, or any other characteristic. Raising our awareness of systems and bias allows us to rethink the ways in which we approach hiring, inclusion, organizational culture and relationships with stakeholders. The session provides an understanding of how privilege and bias work and ways we can disrupt microaggression patterns and have tough conversations.
Microaggressions are subtle verbal and non-verbal slights based on social group membership. Microaggressions are often the result of unconscious biases that lead to unintended discrimination against or degradation of those who are socially marginalized in a society, whether for skin color, gender, sexual orientation, age, language, origin, religion, disability, or any other characteristic. Raising our awareness of systems and bias allows us to rethink the ways in which we approach hiring, inclusion, organizational culture and relationships with stakeholders. The session provides an understanding of how privilege and bias work and ways we can disrupt microaggression patterns and have tough conversations.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND A LEGACY OF RACISM
We can see a legacy of racism in the environmental disparities that current plague our nation and history tells a clear story about where we’ve landed today. Effects of past institutions have left racial and ethnic groups in disadvantaged social positions, and often times present institutions sustain the disadvantage of members of the racial groups unknowingly without immediate racist or discriminatory intent. This session will include a lecture on, and discussion of, the connections between socio-cultural inequity and environmental issues and a brief history of the EJ movement.
We can see a legacy of racism in the environmental disparities that current plague our nation and history tells a clear story about where we’ve landed today. Effects of past institutions have left racial and ethnic groups in disadvantaged social positions, and often times present institutions sustain the disadvantage of members of the racial groups unknowingly without immediate racist or discriminatory intent. This session will include a lecture on, and discussion of, the connections between socio-cultural inequity and environmental issues and a brief history of the EJ movement.
