Workshops & Trainings

Orange Habitat specializes in organizational development and corporate trainings on social responsibility, cultural competency, diversity, inclusion and identity.

Trainings are customized to the clients' specific needs and organizational culture.

Trainings and group facilitation models include:

Corporate Trainings:
Toronto is one of the most ethnically, culturally and socially diverse cities in the world. This creates a huge asset for businesses and corporations to invest in and utilize to enrich their work environment and workplace culture.

  • knowing Who We Are: a "101", two hour session that explores your company's (or team's) composition, beyond the apparent identity presentations. This interactive session helps team members develop a better understanding of who they spend their work days with and why is it important to look beyond stereotypes and assumptions
     
  • The Half Day: A 3.5 hour intermediate level exploration of your corporate culture and how it relates to a diverse employee structure. A mixed method session that will encourage everyone to better connect with their work environment and each other to achieve better productivity and cooperation.
     
  • The Full Day: This 6.5 hour interactive workshop goes beyond learning who we are and how we relate to each other (included in the day's curriculum) and delves into presenting challenges that teams might be facing within the existing corporate culture. The day includes a facilitated round table style session that allows team members and leaders to present and discuss these challenges and try to work on resolutions.
     
  • Social Responsibility: We will work with your company to evolve the delivery of corporate social responsibility programming in a more meaningful and impactful that helps build a sustainable and co-beneficial relationship with your stakeholders and community partners.
     

Non-Profit Trainings:
Canada's diversity reflects on the composition of our client base and the way we provide services for them. There is a profound need for service providers to understand the identities people carry with them, whether it was ethnic, social, gender based, sexual or political identities, or an intersection of some or all of them and beyond. Understanding where "clients" come from, as well as understanding your own social location as a service provider is key to providing services that are sensitive and appropriate.

  • Introduction to "Identity": A two hour session that allows service providers, including board members and management teams to explore, question and challenge their knowledge of concepts of identity, labels and social locations.
     
  • The Half Day: A 3.5 hour customized interactive workshop that would expand the conversation to address issues relating to the specific populations your organization serve. This training curriculum will specifically address one, or a combination of the following:
    - Working with Immigrants and Refugees
    - Reconciling faith and family cultures with sexual and gender identities
    - Working with LGBTQ youth and adults
     
  • The Full Day: A 7 hour interactive workshop that goes deeper into learning who we are and how we relate to each other (included in the day's curriculum) and delves into presenting challenges that teams might be facing within the existing organizational dynamics. The day includes facilitated discussions that allows team members and leaders to present and discuss these challenges and try to work on resolutions based on better understanding of social locations and identities, within an anti-oppression, collaborative framework.

Please contact us for a fee schedule and to book your training or workshop sessions.