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If you answered yes to any of the above, please consider applying for Subduction Consulting & El Porvenir Services’ 2023 Racial Equity Consultant Development Program!

This intensive 12-month hybrid professional development program includes:

• Two in-person retreats in Portland, Oregon - an opening retreat in January and a closing retreat in December 2023 (meals included, airfare & lodging not included).

• Bimonthly Zoom work sessions from January - June, and monthly meetings from July - November.

• Guidance in refining your vision, analysis, skills and practices towards improving client outcomes & satisfaction rates, and your practice through high-impact strategies.

• Eligibility to be listed as a collaborative partner on Subduction Consulting’s website and to receive direct project referrals.

• PAID opportunities to work on El Porvenir & Subduction Projects.

• Support & mentorship from 2 extraordinarily experienced organizational equity consultants who have:

  • 50+ years of combined experience

  • Successfully built 3 thriving consulting practices in the past decade

  • Provided capacity-building sessions to thousands of participants and consulting services to dozens of organizations while achieving meaningful client outcomes, high satisfaction rates and more word of mouth referrals than we can manage.

  • Trained and mentored racial equity facilitators who have gone on to start their own successful private practices, and/or moved into senior leadership positions at organizations working to advance human rights & workplace justice.

Content

Retreats and work sessions will strategically guide participants in refining their approach to Racial Equity Consulting, including identifying their unique vision, talents & skills and expanding their frameworks and analysis for guiding others in systems transformation towards racial equity & workplace justice.

Analysis: Identifying your personal/organizational “north star,” guiding purpose and concrete goals for racial equity consulting work.

Vision: Clarifying and refining your vision for why organizations should be working to shift their outcomes towards racial equity, collaboration & justice, and what concrete actions they can take to get there.

Capacity Building: Frameworks and tools for strengthening your intersectional racial equity analysis and for supporting clients & colleagues in developing theirs.

Communication & Conflict Resolution: Strategies and tools for assessing & engaging clients’ starting places, leveraging support, minimizing resistance, acknowledging and repairing racialized harm & navigating the emotional and interpersonal churn that inevitably accompanies meaningful action for equity.

Self-Care and Sustainability: Tools and skills for attending to physical, emotional, and mental well-being for yourself and your clients.

Business management: Recommendations and best practices for growing your practice, networks & contracts.

Facilitators

Why now?

People have been approaching each of us for years, asking: how can I learn to do what you do?

We haven’t had a simple answer. Our individual paths to the intersectional, racial equity-centered, conflict & systems transformation work that we do is the result of unique life experiences, diverse educational paths and highly specialized skill sets developed through decades of eclectic professional experiences. And the need for racial equity analysis, conflict transformation skills, and visions for more collaborative and just ways of working together is growing exponentially.

In recent years, we have seen the demand for racial equity support outpaced by the availability of highly skilled consultants. Unfortunately, many “DEI consultants” lack the skills necessary for supporting organizations through the tumultuous waves of interpersonal conflict, hostile resistance and structural stagnation that inevitably accompany racial equity initiatives. Understanding the terrain and explaining it to others is one thing, actually navigating the terrain towards concrete, meaningful outcomes in an organizational ecosystem is another.

So, we have designed the Racial Equity Consultant Development Program to distill decades of best practices and lessons learned into an intensive 12-month professional development program. We are not interested in hiring people to work for us in traditional, hierarchical ways where we exploit their labor for our own profit. We do want to build a community of colleagues and collaborators who have their own thriving practices where they can manifest their own vision for the work and maintain complete control their own time, labor, energy and decisions. This program is designed for individuals who are ready to lead the way to creating just workplaces for all, and would benefit from collaboration, skill development, mentorship and peer support while building their practice and surviving capitalism.

Who is this for?

We are gathering innovative practitioners and strategists who are searching for a community of radical visionary leaders. We want to help folks find their own freedom in the pursuit of liberation for others; and to create a platform and opportunity for folks who are ready to become consultants and facilitators at their current workplaces or in their own private practices. Together, we will hone our abilities as self-aware, race-conscious consultants who serve as skilled facilitators and trainers, through the development of the concrete skills necessary to promote healthy change in groups and worksites committed to the struggle for human rights and workplace justice. And make sure we can pay our bills and provide for our families in the process.

This is an excellent opportunity if any of the following apply to you:

• You have worked on equity issues consistently within your own workplace and are dreaming of moving into private consulting but aren’t sure how to do it.

• You have been working side gigs as a consultant and would like to grow your practice into a sustainable full-time endeavor that doesn’t require a day job.

• You provide racial equity consulting/training services to other teams, departments or divisions within your organization as part of a job you intend to keep, and are seeking additional skills, tools & frameworks to improve your outcomes.

Requirements & Selection Criteria

The cohort will be limited to 15 - 20 participants. All are welcome to apply. We will prioritize applications from Black, Indigenous and People of Color womxn & femmes.

Participation requires that:

Investment - $4,200

Installment plans and limited financial assistance are available.

This is an investment in your career and your future, and it is a tax-deductible business expense!

An educational degree in relevant social sciences costs at least 10x as much while providing a much less sophisticated analysis and zero practical experience. Certificate programs cost about the same, but give you much less content, are generally repackaging “diversity & inclusion” frameworks that are 10-20 years out-of-date, rarely discuss anti-Blackness, and do not immediately lead to paid opportunities with actively practicing consultants.

We are not a non-profit, we do not have fixed salaries. Our client work pays our bills and supports our families. We are committed to making our services accessible to the community, and we are taking time out of our businesses to help you build yours. We are keeping the fee as low as possible while covering expenses and honestly valuing our time - in the same way we expect you to value yours. And, if private practice is your goal, our goal is to support you in finding opportunities to earn income and see a return on this investment before the program ends.

Application opens October 10.
Application due by Nov 6.
Application decisions will be announced by November 18th.

Questions?

Join us for an open house style information session on October 25 at 12 - 1 PM Pacific.

Email: Theresa@subductionconsulting.com
Phone: 503-482-8069