Understanding Allyship with Katie Allen

The Empowering Communities partnership are excited to let you know about an upcoming EDI workshop we have in the calendar. (This is the third in our series of EDI workshops but can be attended as a stand alone event).

Join expert facilitator Katie Allen to increase your knowledge, understanding and confidence around the topic of Allyship.

Taking place on Thursday 13th March 10:30am until 12pm online

What to expect:

• A foundational understanding of allyship and what it means to act as an ally.
• Developing a confident toolkit for challenge, expressing and role modelling desired behaviours.
• Creating a common language of allyship, making difficult conversations easier.

Structure of session:

• Introduction and psychological safety principles
• The basis of allyship - it's a verb
• Unpacking frames of reference
• How to apologise
• Exploring acts of allyship
• Q&A: ask Katie anything! What makes you nervous? What terminology do people not understand?

A little bit about Katie Allen:

Katie Allen is a specialist Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consultant, Executive Coach and TEDx speaker.

With decades of experience in people and culture, and commercial leadership positions, Katie is now on a mission to change the world of work by enabling a new wave of inclusive leaders who are confident to have the real conversations that matter.

Katie started her business, Katie Allen Consulting, Katie Allen Diversity Equity & Inclusion Specialist, & Executive Coach in 2020 and has since helped thousands of leaders to fight the fear of putting their foot in it!

Other things to note:

The workshop is online. A link to join will be sent a couple of weeks before the workshop date.

If you require any adjustments to help you take part in the session, please get in touch at [email protected]

This training workshop, unlike many of our other events, incurs a charge of £12 +VAT per participant. This is to ensure attendance and to reflect the expertise of the facilitator, as well as to contribute to our costs, which are subsidised by the Empowering Communities partnership. We kindly ask that you pay via credit/debit card when booking.

Tickets are limited to a maximum of 2 per organisation, to ensure the training is accessed by as many VCSEs as possible.

If you have any questions about the above, please do get in touch at [email protected]