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Dr. Crum assists your school, nonprofit, museum, or corporation in implementing your commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The goal is to help ensure that each member of your community has the opportunity to thrive. Our training examines the intersection of race, gender, and class using research, art, self-reflection, and storytelling to offer your team new practices that support creative learning, social responsibility and productive community building.

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We have workshops to fit your needs.

Below are workshops and webinars that help you engage in reflective conversations about implicit and explicit bias. We help you  avoid perpetuating stereotypes, explore nuanced stories of diverse subjects, and create opportunities for critical thinking to shape forward-thinking educators, staff and board members.


Please note the following:

  1. Workshops and webinars have a minimum time frame of 2 hours.
  2. Workshops have a maximum of 50 participants. Additional repeated workshops are required for participant groups over 50.
  3. Webinars participation number can vary. Inquire for details.
  4. Workshops can be virtual or in-person.
  5. Bundle rates available.

Understanding Implicit Bias through Self-Reflection

Workshop

This workshop focuses on examining how people and experiences have shaped our individual identity formation. Using aspects of social and emotional learning, we investigate how these experiences make each of us complex and how that complexity impacts our relationships with colleagues and the community where we work. Participants identify potential challenges that can be misinterpreted by colleagues and clients as well as opportunities to build connections with each other.  

Race & Identity Definitions Toolkit

Webinar or Workshop

This series offers definitions to complex concepts that are necessary for engaging in productive conversations and actions. These language tools allow for clearer communication among those within the workplace. Words may include but are not limited to the following: microaggressions, systemic racism, anti-blackness, privilege, power, equity, equality, gender and intersectionality. This series can be offered as workshop which allows for small group processing. Or it can be a webinar which is a lecture-based format with no participant engagement. 

  • Session 1 Definitions

    Below are the definitions covered in Session 1:

    • "Normal"
    • Prejudice
    • Privilege
    • Discrimination

  • Session 2 Definitions

    Below are the definitions covered in Session 2:

    • Race
    • Systemic/Structural Racism
    • Power
    • White supremacy

  • Session 3 Definitions

    Below are the definitions covered in Session 3:

    • Anti-Blackness
    • Racial battle fatigue
    • Reverse Racism

  • Session 4 Definitions

    Below are the definitions covered in Session 4:

    • Ethnicity
    • Latinx/e
    • BIPOC
    • Gender
    • Cis

  • Session 5 Definitions

    Below are the definitions covered in Session 5:

    • Microaggressions
    • Microinequities
    • Intersectionality

  • Session 6 Definitions

    Below are the definitions covered in Session 6: 

    • Diversity
    • Equality
    • Equity

  • Session 7 Definitions

    Below are the definitions covered in Session 7: 

    • Inclusion
    • Belonging
    • Liberation
    • Allyship
    • Accompliceship

Investigating Workplace Culture

Workshop

The company forum is a combination of small and large group discussions so co-workers can gain a better understanding of how each other is experiencing the work environment. Participants complete an anonymous survey to share successful experiences and opportunities for change in the workplace. Participants are encouraged to use tools and information from the workshop to identify and correct harmful behavior as well as continue helpful behavior. The goal is to make direct connections between personal beliefs and organizational culture.

Best Practices for Collaboration, Conflict, & Community Building in Education

Workshop

Learn strategies to assist in turning challenges into opportunities to create shared experiences, ultimately building stronger relationships with students and colleagues.
  • Do’s and Don’ts: Responding to Spontaneous Challenges
  • 7 Components of a Critical          Discussion 
  • Developing Classroom Principles and Practices
  • Recognize Your Triggers

Critical Reflection with Peers

Workshop

This workshop uses artworks, history, and social and emotional skills to explore how we think about diversity in order to come to terms with our perceptions and possible misconceptions. Participants engage in reflective conversations that support critical-thinking for effective problem-solving and enhanced relationships with peers and others. Participants are offered tools to explore the complexity of identity, and make connections to how people experience belonging in a system, institution, or community. 

Taking Risks in a Growth Mindset Community 

Webinar or Workshop

Make connections between relationship building, academic success and growth mindset principles. 
  • Learn ways to help students create their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences.
  • Learn how innovation requires mistakes and risk-taking to develop character in teachers and students.

How to be an Anti-Racist

Workshop

This workshop informs participants of strategies and thought processes that aid in reaching racial equity. Participants learn the differences between being “not racist” and “anti-racist” in their policies, practices, and attitudes, so that they can effectively engage in transformative racial justice efforts and work to dismantle racism.

Investigating Dominant Culture 'Norms' in Your Organization

Workshop

Participants learn how dominant culture norms can manifest in the workplace or school such as defensiveness, power hoarding, and fear of conflict. This workshop guides participants at all levels of the employee hierarchy from lower-level staff to senior leadership through a reflection process on their relationships with coworkers or students and their past experiences as an employee or student. Participants reflect on their answers and determine strategies for improvement.

Who am I as a teacher?

Workshop

Participants consider the ways they “show up” at school with their students. Through self-reflection activities, participants explore their drive and purpose in connection to their profession. They have the opportunity identify what is working well and challenge certain practices that might be causing harm to students. The goal is to consider ways to make school a more healthy academic and work environment for everyone.

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WORKSHOPS FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

Identify Implicit Bias in Pharmacy

In pharmacy implicit bias has challenged the Oath of "Do No Harm." There is an expectation that a pharmacist stay up to date on clinical guidelines and pharmacy law. Marvin Ferguson, RPh, has teamed up with Mosaic Education Network to facilitate DEI training for pharmacy students, techs, managers, and senior leadership in healthcare. 


Marvin Ferguson has 16 years of pharmacy practice experience. His previous role was with a Specialty Pharmacy as the Oncology and Growth Hormone lead. His focus was on patients with rare and complex conditions that required specialized care and therapies. This role included supporting members, their families, and caregivers by providing education and support to manage their medication therapy. Marvin’s current role of Pharmacy Manager Clinical programs assures effective and compliant medication therapy management, opioid safety, care management and adherence programs.

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