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Know Your Rights vs. Exercise Your Rights: A Distinction that Makes a Difference

Exercise Your Rights trainings acknowledge a crucial truth: pressure, power dynamics, trauma, language barriers, and even basic personality differences all shape how—and whether—people can assert their rights. By practicing in advance, participants are better equipped to make intentional choices in the moment, even when situations are stressful, unpredictable, or scary.

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Kim Tran Kim Tran

Rethink Your Retreat: Creating a Generative Space for Change Work

The words “staff retreat” conjure thoughts of soggy pastries, uncomfortable icebreakers, interminable slide decks, and maybe an ill-timed trust fall. But a well executed retreat can be a powerful opportunity to alleviate tension, prevent burnout and capacity build for the road ahead.

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Kim Tran Kim Tran

Finding My Way Through Grief at Work

Standard workplace policies can make grieving more challenging. Inclusive structures ensure that whoever we are and however we mourn, we’re supported at work.

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Kim Tran Kim Tran

Disability Inclusion in the Workplace

Phrases like “all hands” or “crazy timelines” can make vast and problematic assumptions about bodies, what they can do and what we want them to do. Changing our language is a straightforward and easy way to tell our disabled colleagues that we’re inclusive and everyone belongs in this workplace.

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