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How can we get concrete changes in our industry without waiting for white people to get comfortable?

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How can we get concrete changes in our industry without waiting for white people to get comfortable?

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What do I need to do differently, in priority?

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What do I need to do differently, in priority?

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How I can improve my skills as a volunteer Coordinator?

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How I can improve my skills as a volunteer Coordinator?

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How do I hold space for personal growth while nurturing growth for my organization? (e.g. doing this at the same time)

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How to improve our volunteer program to include more diverse groups without tokenizing people.

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How to improve our volunteer program to include more diverse groups without tokenizing people.

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Completely open mind ... to learn something.

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Am I doing enough to engage and support BIPOC volunteers?

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Am I doing enough to engage and support BIPOC volunteers?

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What are the barriers, perhaps some of the more insidious, to inclusion and equity in volunteer programs?

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What are the barriers, perhaps some of the more insidious, to inclusion and equity in volunteer programs?

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how to overcome the exhaustion of being one of the only champions around creating inclusive and diverse workspaces?

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How can I use these skills to reduce stress at work?

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How can I use these skills to reduce stress at work?

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How can i disrupt the cycles we perpetuate?

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Strategies to make my volunteer recruitment more inclusive?

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Strategies to make my volunteer recruitment more inclusive?

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I want to learn to go #BeyondTalk...talk is great...but how do we go beyond?

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How can I keep up with new technology and terminology

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How can I keep up with new technology and terminology

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Where are the major gaps, based on research?  

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Where are the major gaps, based on research?  

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How can we ensure to challenge assumptions in a way that produces not just good conversation, but good outcomes?

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How can we ensure to challenge assumptions in a way that produces not just good conversation, but good outcomes?

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How do we encourage greater diversity in our profession?

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How do we encourage greater diversity in our profession?

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How can I make an impact on my agency, when I have no control over policies?

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How can I make an impact on my agency, when I have no control over policies?

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How do we work towards having dialogue that leads to change, instead of working from a place of only identifying problems?

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How do we work towards having dialogue that leads to change, instead of working from a place of only identifying problems?

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How racism still very much exists. My 6 year old children came home saying they learned about the N-word!? They are not-'white', yet they learned this from 'white' kids. What do we all need to pay attention to with this story in mind? I want Volunteers to be aware of this reality, and learn to do our bests.

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Is there a place for separate training for bodies of culture and white bodied volunteers to protect BIPOC from harm.

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Is there a place for separate training for bodies of culture and white bodied volunteers to protect BIPOC from harm.

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What happens if management is from a marginalized group, but they have management practices that marginalize others?

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What happens if management is from a marginalized group, but they have management practices that marginalize others?

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How can I introduce JEDI to my volunteers in ways that foster respectful sharing and learning?

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How can I introduce JEDI to my volunteers in ways that foster respectful sharing and learning?

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How do we move beyond improving Volunteerism incrementally, to looking at what volunteerism is and how it enables a rotten oppressive system?

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How do we move beyond improving Volunteerism incrementally, to looking at what volunteerism is and how it enables a rotten oppressive system?

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What is the role of volunteerism in a world where anti-oppression and meeting basic needs for everyone is realized? 

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What is the role of volunteerism in a world where anti-oppression and meeting basic needs for everyone is realized? 

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Conscious leadership involves looking at my words, actions, thoughts and impact. I have a responsibility in my organization, even though I am not in a senior leadership role.

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The culture of an organization is reflected in the values and beliefs of all levels of leadership.

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When my actions don't match my intentions, then I have commitments I am unaware of.

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When my actions don't match my intentions, then I have commitments I am unaware of.

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Is that the first step, to make a commitment, and then change behaviour?  Or a bit backwards...  

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Is that the first step, to make a commitment, and then change behaviour?  Or a bit backwards...  

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I've thought about what we 'inherit' in different situations (i.e. how privileges can change when we travel to different countries, when we start a new job), even though parts of what we 'inherit' we dislike - and now thinking about this as 'radical responsibility'

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I've thought about what we 'inherit' in different situations (i.e. how privileges can change when we travel to different countries, when we start a new job), even though parts of what we 'inherit' we dislike - and now thinking about this as 'radical responsibility'

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how to shift power when I don't have lived experiences so those voices can lead/be centred - constantly trying to push my own comfort in this space

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how to shift power when I don't have lived experiences so those voices can lead/be centred - constantly trying to push my own comfort in this space

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We each have power in our organizations:  there is no one without some measure of power.  And with this power comes responsibility:  what I do , what I say, how I behave, and how I am perceived by others influences and impacts relationships.

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We each have power in our organizations:  there is no one without some measure of power.  And with this power comes responsibility:  what I do , what I say, how I behave, and how I am perceived by others influences and impacts relationships.

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Minding the gap.  The conscious leader can minimize the gap.

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Minding the gap.  The conscious leader can minimize the gap.

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needing to make those changes alone!!! (it is only within teams we can make those changes!)

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needing to make those changes alone!!! (it is only within teams we can make those changes!)

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Being afraid to speak (because I have privilege that other people don't, and I have less to be afraid of...)

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Being afraid to speak (because I have privilege that other people don't, and I have less to be afraid of...)

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Justice issues don't have to pertain to me specifically for me to be able to make a stand for them.

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Justice issues don't have to pertain to me specifically for me to be able to make a stand for them.

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The importance of compassion - for ourselves and for each other. 

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The importance of compassion - for ourselves and for each other. 

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Thinking of discomfort as worse than it is. Unlearning avoiding discomfort and being more realistic that it is a normal part of life. 

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Thinking of discomfort as worse than it is. Unlearning avoiding discomfort and being more realistic that it is a normal part of life. 

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So many great learnings... the stretch zone is a great concept. And minding the gap. 

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So many great learnings... the stretch zone is a great concept. And minding the gap. 

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The stretch zone! I can easily, unknowingly slide back into my comfort zone, but it just takes "a spark" (as one attendee put it) to start stretching again! What hope :)

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The stretch zone! I can easily, unknowingly slide back into my comfort zone, but it just takes "a spark" (as one attendee put it) to start stretching again! What hope :)

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I'm intentionally learning more about BIPOC communities, and how I can be an active ally. However, I'm still learning how to get out of my comfort zone (especially within my organization/ professional role) to inflict change. 

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I'm intentionally learning more about BIPOC communities, and how I can be an active ally. However, I'm still learning how to get out of my comfort zone (especially within my organization/ professional role) to inflict change. 

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The importance to make room and space to explore beliefs, within the organization- while creating a safe space where ppl can stand with their truths. Caring, compassionate responses to each other to explore.

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Working in an environment and industry that has historically done little around DEI when I've used to work in organizations that championed DEI

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labour is our industry - we should all be reflecting on the role of volunteers in juxtaposition to paid labour and what is fair/ethical - what should we be paying people for vs. asking them to volunteer? 

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labour is our industry - we should all be reflecting on the role of volunteers in juxtaposition to paid labour and what is fair/ethical - what should we be paying people for vs. asking them to volunteer? 

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That I don't always have an answer. Also, my understanding and experience with people management stems from a colonized approach

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One of collective conversations I'm really interested in a collective conversation about the charity model in general... What does it look like to be inclusive + accessible while being in this dynamic of helping those 'in need'?  How can it be more of a partnership than top down help?

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One of collective conversations I'm really interested in a collective conversation about the charity model in general... What does it look like to be inclusive + accessible while being in this dynamic of helping those 'in need'?  How can it be more of a partnership than top down help?

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traditional volunteerism has deep roots in white saviourism

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traditional volunteerism has deep roots in white saviourism