Virtual Equity Training – Oct 4

Posted by LEAD California on August 23, 2022

Join us for a high quality professional development opportunity – designed to support your community engagement work!

LEAD California and Saint Mary’s College of California are collaborating with the National Equity Project to bring their Introduction to Liberatory Design Workshop to the community engagement community. This three-hour interactive event is being held via zoom and features the mindsets and modes of Liberatory Design.

Date and Time: Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 10am to 1pm Pacific Time

Register HERE; we’ll send a payment link later. Registration is $75/person for LEAD California members (and Saint Mary’s colleagues) and $100/person for all others. Limited “seating” is available so don’t wait to register!

Questions? Contact Jennifer Pigza, jpigza@stmarys-ca.edu.

What is Liberatory Design? 

Liberatory Design is an approach to addressing equity challenges and change efforts in complex systems. It is grounded in an integrated part of NEP’s Leading for Equity Framework, which meshes human-centered design (aka design thinking) with complex systems theory, and deep equity practice. It is a process and practice to:

• Create designs that help interrupt inequity and increase opportunity for those most impacted by oppression
• Transform power by shifting the relationships between those who hold power to design and those impacted by these designs
• Generate critical learning and increased agency for those involved in the design work

Liberatory Design is both a flexible process that can be used by teams and a set of equity leadership habits that can be practiced daily. It can be used in a variety of ways and by a variety of actors, including innovation efforts, strategic planning, community-driven design, and collaborative teams.