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Services
Professional Development Education and Dialogues
Diversity Audits and Climate Surveys
Executive Coaching
Crisis Management–Are your colleagues or students challenged by diversity among each other or with the people they serve? Are they interested in maximizing communication and community and trust building? Has an event occurred which has interrupted smooth communication? We can help with that with tailor-made plans to not only to address the crisis but also to create solid foundations to minimize the impact of future diversity conflicts.
Long-term Equity, Diversity, Belonging and Mattering Plans: Are you interested in revamping your strategies, methods, and policies to ensure equal and equitable environments? Using our uniquely designed assessment and survey plans, we can review and if necessary, adjust existing models and policies for maximum success related to diversity.
Eliminating work and learning space inequity: Are you seeing workplace and learning space community fractures related to difference? Would you like to create greater trust and a strong and sustainable sense of community among your colleagues? Utilizing the latest conflict resolution methods, J.A. Stollman Consulting builds 1-2 day workshops designed to address and fix interpersonal and interdepartmental inequity.
Short Term Assessment: Are you interested in making sure that your work or learning space is at its absolute best as it relates to diversity and inclusion? J.A. Stollman Consulting will devise, deploy, and report back on qualitative and quantitative assessments to ensure that your organization’s environment is thriving and productive.
Diversity Hires: Make sure that your organization fulfills its commitment to diversity by increasing diversity hires in your organization. J.A. Stollman Consulting will work with you to assess your needs, objectives, and goals to create an attractive position, post the job, effectively target that post to the appropriate employment outlets, and design interview questions. After your hire, I will help create a successful new employee integration plan along with strategies to ensure long term commitments on behalf of the new hires.
Job and Higher Education Applications: Today, workspaces and higher education are seeking to increase diversity and to populate their employment and campus spaces with unique individuals who maximize productivity, satisfaction, and innovation. J.A. Stollman Consulting can review job and college applications to highlight your unique diversity experiences, thereby distinguishing your applications from the thousands of others.
Selected Workshops:
J.A. Stollman Consulting's 90-minute workshops are interactive. They rely upon the latest research and successful application methods for maximum positive impact. Utilizing a “no blame, no shame” approach, workshop participants receive the latest information and strategies for success related to diversity. Informational and participant engagement-based workshops ensure that participants will learn diversity concepts, be able to successfully deploy these concepts, and have boilerplate language and actions to move through diversity-based conflicts.
Diversity Fatigue This workshop addresses the phenomena of diversity fatigue. In addition to recognizing the symptoms, participants learn several techniques to get the engagement and conversations started.
Having Open and Honest Conversations About Different Identities This workshop teaches standards and techniques to ensure productive and non-threatening conversations about race.
Identity This workshop provides education about identity categories related to race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, and others. Participants will discuss and learn how and why historically these identities emerged, how they are developed and deployed by individuals and others, whether they are biological or social constructs, and the mutual constitutive nature of identities.
Implicit Bias, Micro-aggressions, and Stereotype Threat This workshop explains implicit bias, how it impacts work in the classrooms, on the campus, and in the workspace and how stakeholders can work against its effects. It also introduces participants to micro-aggressions—those everyday acts, behaviors, and verbalizations that encourage racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of oppression. Participants will learn what they are, how to avoid committing them and what to do if one commits a micro-aggression. Finally, this workshop explores the concept of stereotype threat and how it impacts student learning and success as well as faculty and staff productivity. Participants will understand these three concepts and how to mitigate or eliminate the impacts of implicit bias, micro-aggressions, and stereotype threat.
Active Bystander Designed to interrupt the script of oppression, this workshop discuss and shares techniques related to being an Active Bystander. Techniques include how to assess an aggression, how to respond in creative and non-threatening ways, and how to respond once the event has happened.
Climate Assessment Before devising an equitable space, campuses and other organizations must identify where inequity exists. This workshop provides information that can be used to detect obvious or subtle inequality or discrimination. Through the creation of surveys and action plans, this workshop helps organizations to be more comprehensive in their diversity and equity plans.
Privilege (of all kinds) Understanding privilege is a key component to anti-oppression work. This workshop explains privilege and how it operates. Participants learn how to successfully navigate privilege in society, professional workspaces, classrooms, and during individual interactions.
Media Literacy: This workshop focuses on the ways in which media supports or challenges stereotypes, cultural norms, and ideas about identity. It trains facilitators to present examples and nurture critical thinking to deconstruct media. Participants learn to identify the creator’s intentions, what techniques and imagery are used, how signifiers are used to shape meaning for the viewer, what is omitted, and how different people might interpret the same piece of media differently.
Benefits of Diversity Literacy Accepting the moral reasons for diversity literacy, this workshop is principally directed to individuals and organizations This workshops explores why diversity literacy creates economic, social, and political benefits.
Civil Rights Education This workshop explores American civil rights history. Depending on the audience and educational goals, it can focus on local, state, regional, national, and international efforts to preserve and protect civil rights.
Oppression Anxiety and How to Deal One of the greatest obstacles to teaching about and combating oppression is anxiety. This workshop teaches participants how to identify the early and obvious signs of anxiety, how to understand its negative impact on social justice work, how to locate in individuals where the anxiety exists and how to release it to ensure greater investment and engagement in social justice and equity work
When the $%&^ Hits the Fan A central reason why individuals resist equity and anti-oppression work is that they fear confrontation and conflict. This workshop focuses on effective techniques and strategies to use when conflict, discomfort, or silence emerges.
Restorative Justice A central component of equity and healing among communities is the process of restorative justice. Restorative justice works with individual infractions through a community approach. Victims, offenders and community stakeholders come together to achieve conflict resolution. This workshop surveys restorative justice philosophies, components, and techniques.