Is your organization committed to racial equity, but struggling to make lasting progress?
You're not alone. Many organizations face challenges in sustaining momentum and creating a healthy, nurturing environment for DEI and race equity work.
Building an Equity Container: A Relational Approach to Advancing Racial Equity in Organizations
As critics push back against DEI, calling it “divisive,” many organizations have struggled with racial equity efforts because they are relationally unprepared for the work. Without intentionally reshaping norms and practices to nurture relational conditions and embody liberatory practices, organizations fall into white-dominant patterns that stymie equity work and normalize harm to team members from marginalized communities.
Over the past five years, we have developed a framework for organizations to strengthen their equity containers – the relational conditions in which racial equity work takes place. This framework is presented in Building an Equity Container: A Relational Approach to Advancing Racial Equity in Organizations.
What is an Equity Container?
Think of it as the relational foundation upon which successful racial equity work is built. Without a strong equity container, organizations often fall into white-dominant norms that cause harm and hinder progress.
Building an Equity Container: A Relational Approach to Advancing Racial Equity in Organizations can equip teams to:
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Develop strategies for building trust
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Navigate demanding and complex racial equity work
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Reduce harm to staff from marginalized communities
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Create sustainable changes that center race equity internally and externally