DEI Training Series

Introduction

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Standing Group (DEISG) identifies and coordinates training opportunities with a goal for inclusive and intersectional diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training. The DEISG proposes different types of training to engage Alliance members wherever they are with their DEI practices. Training opportunities will address different learning styles and topic familiarity while incorporating community elements.

  • Training types: speaker/presentation, panel discussion, workshop, multiple session series
  • Learning styles: active learning, group discussion, think + write, interactive response, Q&A
  • Topics: diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, identity (personal, community, and systems), LGBTQ+ topics, anti-bias, anti-harassment, community and collective care, policies and practices

FY26 Opportunities: Community & Collective Care

Zoom’s automated captions will be available for all trainings. Trainings that include recording will use human-provided and edited captions for the recordings.

Visit DEI Training, Previous Years to review information for past training opportunities.

Strategizing for Collective Care and Protection While Honoring Our Limits

Trainer: Yejin Lee, Founder, Equity & Justice Practitioner, Jeong Coaching & Consulting LLC

Dates: October 21, 2025 at 2-3pm for Part 1: Facilitated Processing Space
October 23, 2025 at 1-3pm for Part 2: Workshop with Framework & Tools

Online Training: Registration for Alliance Members
This training will be recorded with a focus on the presentation portion. (Alliance Central Staff will pause or stop the recording during discussion sections.)

Portions of this workshop will connect with Recognizing, Utilizing, & Disrupting Our Individual Defaults in Service of Equity & Justice, a workshop we had with Yejin in April 2025. Participants may want to review the recording and materials from that workshop.

Description: We are living through a particularly oppressive period of degenerative chaos and conflict. For those of us seeking to translate our principles of equity and justice into our everyday lives, we must tenderly but courageously confront an important tension that exists between: (1) doing what we can to materially care for and protect marginalized peoples; and (2) existing within the bounds of our own bodyminds and capacities so that we can sustain our commitments. In order to make space for our own care in a way that is not rooted in hyperindividualism and selfishness, we must organize this work as a part of an interdependent community of practice.

In October, anti-oppression facilitator and coach Yejin Lee (she/they) of Jeong Coaching & Consulting LLC will be offering members of the Orbis Cascade Alliance community a two-part workshop to support participants in finding responsive and strategic ways to show up in “the work”™ without disposing of their own needs.

Session 1: Facilitated Processing Space. Tuesday, October 21st from 2-3pm PDT

The first part of this workshop series will be a facilitated processing space for the group to collectively ground ourselves in the political realities of the moment, and in the possibilities and limits of our minds, hearts, bodies, and efforts. In order to redefine care from a relational and trauma-informed lens, Yejin will help us to:

  • Free ourselves from the hyperindividualistic treatment of “self-care” in order to make space for interdependent organizing;
  • Discuss what it means to center the needs of marginalized peoples while honoring our own bounds and limits;
  • Identify ways each of us can offer care and protection in these times.

Session 2: Workshop with Framework & Tools to Strategize for Collective Care. Thursday, October 23rd from 1-3pm PDT

The second part of this series will focus on offering practical frameworks, tools and processes to build an interdependent web of care and protection that honors both our expansive abilities and our limits. During this session, Yejin’s objectives for us are:

  • To increase our capacity to center consent and utilize trauma-informed practices when developing strategies of care and protection;
  • To learn how to surface necessary data & information about external organizational & human factors and internal/personal considerations to set responsive strategies; 
  • To build capacity in translating data & information into strategies that center the needs of multiply-marginalized people without treating our own labor in extractive and violent ways; 
  • To support participants in understanding what type of exhaustion they are experiencing, and what kind of rest they need;
  • To unveil additional considerations when identifying and honoring our limits as individuals (e.g. neurodivergence, chronic illness, other compounding marginalizations, accumulated fatigue/burnout, making room for joy); 
  • To explore how to build an interdependent web of care and protection in practical ways (culminating in the development of a menu of collective care actions/activities).

Participants will receive robust follow-up materials from Yejin following the workshop series, including a comprehensive and tailored workbook to help this community translate their learnings into concrete practices.

Trainer Bio: Yejin Lee (she/they) is a queer, genderfluid, neurodivergent, and second generation Corean anti-oppression facilitator and coach who supports individuals and institutions in proactively choosing and materially committing to long-term transformation towards liberatory praxis.

Yejin draws from their professional experiences in nonprofit community organizing, fundraising, governance, strategy, and operations, and also from her informal roles as staff advocate and generative nuisance. Yejin is a lifelong student of abolition, anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, disability justice and anti-fascism. She is passionate about integrating care, wholeness, and directness into all spaces, and invites softness, lightness, and play when needed and appropriate!

Emotional Intelligence for Culture Change: Awareness, Accountability, and Impact

Trainer: Amelia Prochaska, Training and Facilitation Specialist, Right To Be

Date: November 18, 2025, 10:00am-11:30am

Online Training: Registration for Alliance Members will open in mid-October.

Description: More information to come.

Applying Boundaries as a Trauma-Informed Tool

Trainer: Nisha Mody, Life coach, writer, and former librarian

Date: December 3, 2025, 1:00pm-3:00pm

Online Training: Registration for Alliance Members will open in early November.

Description: More information to come.