Inclusive Facilitation Fundamentals

Join a learning cohort to build a more reflexive practice that centers historically excluded communities in design and decision-making through inclusive facilitation.

Drawing from over a decade of experience developing methods that center communities in design, policy, and planning decisions, 3x3 is launching this new webinar series for individual practitioners and teams to further integrate critical reflection, collaboration, and inclusion into their everyday work.

The purpose of this program is to support designers, researchers, and planners to intentionally integrate awareness of positionality and power dynamics as well as values of inclusion, trust-building, accountability, and power-sharing into their work. We will introduce mindsets associated with the Transformative Paradigm and community-centered design through videos, approximately 20-30 mins each and four Zoom sessions held on April 9, 11, 16, and 18 from 12 pm to 1 pm ET.

The videos and session will cover the following topics:

What biases do I hold? Positionality & Reflexivity

Gain awareness of your positionality and build reflexivity into your practice.

Who decides? Power & Power-Sharing

Map power dynamics in your project and define how you and your organization will foster power-sharing.

Who is involved? Inclusion, Equity, & Representation

Understand who has historically been involved, helped, or harmed in your project context to build an inclusive Engagement Plan.

How is trust earned? Authenticity, Transparency, & Accountability

Invest in trust-building through process and decision-making transparency and accountability.

How do we foster enabling environments? Access, Belonging, & Care

Understand and address barriers to participation in a process to design for equitable access, inclusion, and care.

Takeaways

This series of interactive sessions will introduce core values and mindsets, coach participants through applied activities, and provide hands-on facilitation practice, culminating in the creation of an Inclusive Engagement and Facilitation Playbook that will help participants foster an enabling environment for inclusion in their projects or work.

Format

This workshop series will be held online via Zoom. Zoom links will be sent out 48 hours prior to the start of each session.

Discounts

3x3 offers a discount to people affiliated with educational institutes and not-for-profit organizations. We also provide a discount (ranging from 50-100%) to anyone needing financial assistance. Please write to 3x3 at info@3x3.co if you believe you qualify for a discount.

About

3x3 is an inclusive innovation studio designing for systemic change.

About the facilitators

Jeremie Candio, Engagement and Communications Designer at 3x3, is a multimedia designer with a focus on using research to meet the core values of communities in need through 3×3. Through design, Jeremie hopes to promote and establish equitable opportunities and experiences for marginalized communities and provide them a voice through design mediums. With knowledge in branding, advertising, UX, and UI, Jeremie understands the importance of approaching users through a human-centered design lens providing empathy to users. Jeremie has a Bachelor of Arts in Design with a concentration in interaction design from CUNY Queens College.

Amanda Ramos, Head of Community at 3x3, is an architect and advocate advising the community building and learning efforts at 3×3. She focuses on community-centered design to co-create futures that are strategic, regenerative, and equitable. After 17 years of leading corporate innovation, she recently branched out to dedicate herself to the inclusive practices of social innovation. Amanda holds degrees in Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was mentored as a transdisciplinary designer by Bruce Mau, and founded the innovation consulting practice at Gensler. She serves as the CEO of WIN: Women in Innovation, a member of the Board of Directors at AIANY: American Institute of Architects, and is a faculty at SVA in the Design for Social Innovation program.