Training

All workshops are tailored to meet the needs of your specific sector, organization, and employees. Explore the training options below, or get in touch to discuss designing a unique offering.

Gender-Affirming Skills + Strategies

Strong practices for supporting trans, non-binary, and gender diverse colleagues and clients

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Transforming Workplace Culture

Equity-informed practices for creating safer workplaces

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Tech-Free Team Retreats

Bolstering team cohesion and building resilience for complex times

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“Kingsley was an excellent, knowledgeable and engaging facilitator… From our initial conversation to workshop delivery, Kingsley showcased proficiency as a skilled subject matter expert with the ability to explain workshop materials during dynamic and highly engaging presentations. The entire Ambit Gender Diversity Consulting team created a safe and comfortable space for our employee community to learn, practice their skills, ask meaningful and thought provoking questions and foster new multifaceted ways of working together… As a truly caring and supportive facilitator, Kingsley led each session with great passion and created a conversational environment that allowed everyone to contribute and feel valued.”

KATE FITZPATRICK
DIRECTOR, PEOPLE + DEVELOPMENT
DESTINATION BRITISH COLUMBIA

Gender-Affirming Skills + Strategies

Strong practices for supporting trans, non-binary, & Two-Spirit clients and colleagues

This training is great for organizations who are in the beginning phases of learning about gender diversity, or who want to complement work that is already underway. Through self-reflection, scenarios, and visioning exercises, we’ll explore gender-affirming practices that will improve service provision, staff engagement and retention, and community relationships.

In this training, participants will:

  • Explore a framework for understanding gender beyond the binary
  • Develop an understanding of how of sex, gender, and orientation impact employee and client experiences
  • Learn how to identify barriers and create dignifying work environments, partnerships, and services
  • Practice gender-affirming language and strategies for liaising with co-workers, partner companies, clients, and community members

Photo by Hélène Cyr
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Transforming Workplace Culture

Equity-Informed Practices for Managing Diverse Teams 

This participatory training session will support teams to move towards values of equity, accountability, and repair into tangible, everyday actions.

In this training, participants will:

  • Identify personal and organizational guiding values
  • Reflect on identity and personal sites of power, privilege, and oppression
  • Explore how these factors (and subsequent biases) inform behaviours, interpretations of workplace interactions, and decision-making processes
  • Make connections between interpersonal and organizational power dynamics and larger trends in retention, promotion, and workplace satisfaction
  • Practice receiving disclosures of harm, establishing environments of repair, and staying accountable when one has caused harm

Kingsley gives instruction using his hands to illustrate a point with lights hanging in the background.
Photo by Hélène Cyr
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Photo by Hélène Cyr
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Tech-Free Team Retreats

Bolstering team cohesion and building resilience for complex times

Session 1 offers teams the opportunity to:

  • Create moments of pause, grounding, reflection, and acknowledgement of the learning and successes of the past year
  • Clarify and re-orient around team values
  • Identify tensions and/or paradoxes that may present as challenges is your work
  • Identify concrete strategies for navigating these challenges

In Session 2, Teams will

  • Focus on deepening team cohesion, having fun, and resisting burnout 
  • Identify what makes the team work as a coordinated, values-aligned organism
  • Engage in creative exercises for navigating uncertain futures

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