Workplace Communication

Watch the session recorded on Friday, August 2, 2024.

Resources

The Problem of Othering: Towards Inclusiveness and Belonging, john a. powell and Stephen Menendian, The Othering and Belonging Institute

How to Build Belonging Through Allyship, Ludmila N. Praslova, Ph.D., Psychology Today

7 Ways to Practice Active Allyship, Poornima Luthra, Harvard Business Review

Christina's Book Recommendations

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This interactive session features training, discussion, and group activities to introduce the concept of belonging in the workplace and how our identities - and how they are perceived - can impact the work we do on a day-to-day basis. By understanding the role of personal and social identities, we will work to reimagine organizational culture from a foundation of increased respect and inclusivity.

The session will include time to self-reflect on personal experiences, our own work, and interactions, and we’ll come together to share what we learned and come up with next steps to move forward in generative and community-centered ways.

The goal of the session will be to come away with an understanding of why belonging is the foundation of healthy workplace culture and communication, and what it means to engage in this work organizationally and individually. The focus will be on increasing interpersonal engagement with sessions that include breakout discussions and organic conversation.

In this session, participants will learn:

  • What personal and social identities are and how they interact in the workplace

  • How belonging is central to creating a safe and inclusive work environment

  • What subtle forms of prejudice look like

  • How to employ creative solutions to difficult interactions in the workplace

Have questions? Need help? Email eccolo@edmaker.co for support.

Instructors

 
 

Christina Fuller-Gregory (she/her/hers) is an experienced Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice practitioner, educator, and librarian. Her practice includes working with groups to develop individualized approaches to building an EDISJ framework, policy development, and governance. 

She is also the Assistant Director of Libraries at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. Christina is an active member of the American Library Association (ALA) and of the Public Library Association (PLA). A 2017 ALA Emerging Leader, she currently serves as program facilitator for the Emerging Leaders program. She has also served as co- chair of the Public Library

Associations (PLA) Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice Committee (PLA EDISJ). In addition to her work on the PLA EDISJ Committee, Christina is a frequent contributor to Public Libraries magazine, a course facilitator for Library Journal’s Equity in Action series, and most recently acted as course instructor for PLA’s Leadership Lab: Embedding EDI in Library Leaders.

Led by Fannie Lou Hamer’s belief that ‘Nobody’s free until everybody’s free,’ Christina's work is driven by a desire to see organizations develop strategies for weaving equity, diversity, and inclusion into the very fabric of their organizational culture. In recognition of her advocacy work in the areas of equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice, Christina was named as a 2021 Library Journal Mover and Shaker.

 

Saadia H Khalid (she/her/hers) is a biracial Pakistani-American educator, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY/Lenapehoking. As an educator for over 16 years, she has worked with adults, young adults, and children in many different contexts and capacities, inside and outside of traditional classroom spaces, and always in co-creation with learners. She believes that learning can and should be liberatory and that liberation happens in community. 

For the last 8 years she has worked with Edmaker, leading content development for equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging programs designed for educators and librarians across North America and offered through Library Journal. 

Saadia has spent her life and her career tending the seeds of her own stories and creating spaces for others to tell theirs. Her approach is rooted in social justice and anti-oppression, and prioritizes community, liberation, and the inherent dignity of all human beings.



 
 

Agenda

Presentation

10-10:45 am

45-minute interactive presentation for everyone via Zoom

Breakout groups 1-2

10:45-11:30 am

45-minute small group workshop discussion via Zoom breakout groups

Breakout groups 3-4

11:45 am-12:30 pm

45-minute small group workshop discussion via Zoom breakout groups