Trainings and Services
Seeds of Change Consulting provides a network of experts to grow your organization through collective action and collaboration. If your group or community partner is looking to strengthen ties and increase capacity through sharing knowledge, our team can help. Empowerment, inclusiveness, social justice, and self-determination, are guiding concepts that inform our collective toolkit for initiating community action, which is founded on community-based engagement. In order to foster genuine connections and equitable standards, our process creates intersectional equity plans to put our clients’ strategic ideas into action.
Overview of Anti-Racist Trainings (ART)
To support the Equity and Anti-Racist work of an organization, SoC can facilitate anti-racist trainings for staff, board, committee members, and collaborators engaged with the various levels of Social Change Work. Our trainings are rooted in a rich history of equity work, coming from the lineage of training developed by Rev. C.T. Vivian and Ann Braden in collaboration with communities furthest from justice during the Civil Rights Era. This lineage is a testament to our commitment to examining the root causes of inequities and understanding racism in its institutional, structural, and personal forms.
Services & Offerings
Our racial equity consulting services provide organizations with the tools and expertise to identify and address systemic racism within their structures, policies, and practices. We offer a range of services, including needs assessments, strategic planning, training and development, and ongoing support to ensure lasting change.
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Communities of Practice
Expand Networks and Knowledge Sharing
Bringing folks together who share common interests can be a transformative experience. Our team has experience with facilitating groups and community partners in reaching their goals for deepening relationships and growing capacity through knowledge exchange.
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Community Organizing
Claim Your Power
We believe that the power is with the people. Period. Our shared toolbox for initiating community action is grounded in community-based participation and guided by principles of empowerment, human rights, inclusion, social justice, self-determination and collective action.
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Conflict Mediation and Resolution
Restore Trust and Relationships
Conflict in the workplace or within relationships can be an opportunity for growth. However, without the proper skills and tools to navigate through difficult conversations, positive outcomes can be out of reach. Our team holds expertise with guiding the process to achieve resolution and a path forward for individuals and groups experiencing challenging situations.
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Curriculum Design & Development
Transform Learning, Transform Business
From needs assessments and learning objectives to instructional design, content creation, and evaluation, we partner with you to create effective and engaging learning experiences. We utilize a variety of instructional methods, including blended learning, eLearning, and experiential learning, to cater to diverse learning styles and preferences. Our focus is on creating high-quality, learner-centered curricula that drive measurable results and empower individuals and organizations to succeed.
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Education & Resources
Develop a Racial Equity Analysis
Our highly-skilled team offers one-day, multi-day and extended commitment programming options. Curriculum topics include: implicit bias awareness, the role of being a white accomplice in this work, and racial equity education. We offer client consultations to accommodate special programming requests.
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Feasibility Studies
Measure Pathways to Success
Projects and community initiatives can be daunting tasks without accurate data to support the assessment of the financial and human resources needed to see them through. Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, our team can assist with gathering concrete feedback to make informed decisions for mapping out project management strategies.
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Meeting Facilitation
Listen to Understand
It can be hard to keep meetings on track, particularly when implicit or explicit conflict is present. Using the Circle Meeting approach, we offer techniques that foster an environment for impartial meetings, focus on accomplishing goals, and lead to tangible outcomes. We assist with holding space for productive and impartial meetings, spanning from small-group interventions to large-group discussions. The prioritized focus rests on accomplishing goals and tasks within an agreed upon time frame to ensure desired outcomes and results. Racial Equity is always centered within our practices and techniques.
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Racial Equity Audits
Embrace Transparency and Change
It has become a social norm for organizations to make public declarations of valuing racial equity. In order to truly live into those values, an organization must have the knowledge of where they are before taking steps forward. Our approach to this work is undergirded in participatory action research, intentional conversations, and community input.
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Racial Equity Coaching
Embody a Person-Centered Lens
We offer one-on-one sessions to help individuals identify and overcome personal challenges, as well as services to assist groups in identifying strategies that support them in achieving goals, overcoming challenges, team building, and capacity building.
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Staff Development
Invest in Future Leaders
We provide organizations with strategies to build self-sustaining and effective systems of staff well-being. Areas of focus: racial equity, liberation, problem solving, solutions for systemic issues and healthy anecdotes for burnout. Data indicates that organizations investing in staff development have less staff turnover, have healthier workplace cultures, and increase intra-group buy in for achieving positive outcomes.
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Strategic Planning for Racial Equity
Build Equitable Workplace Culture
We partner with organizations to identify and take meaningful action steps towards racial equity, built on the foundation of prior equity work, shared analysis, and shared values. Our process develops intersectional equity plans, building skills to promote equitable norms and authentic relationships. We provide our clients with tangible work plans to walk out the immediate and yearly action steps of their strategic plan.
