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Diversity and Inclusion can be measured by metrics and checklists; they even have their own ISO standard. Equity is a mindset. Anti-racism is a practice (this applies to other-isms as well). Justice is an aspiration and an outcome. Mindsets, practices, and outcomes require inner work.

The key difference between "DEI" workshops and Brave Sis facilitations is: I help participants tap into something intimate, personal, and generative (in a safe, supportive, and fun environment). If participants leave these sessions with a few aha moments about their own blind-spots, implicit biases, and how over-centering a default whiteness narrative only shows a partial view of the world, then the work is a success.

The Brave Sis practice centers on little-known BIPOC she-roes in history. There is great joy and possibility in finding common ground and deeper insights from these remarkable women whose lives and stories have been obscured and/or erased. From this point of departure, participants will enhance their mindset around inclusion, representation, love, and power.

This is the beginning of an inner shift that makes change more sustainable and authentic. My aim with Brave Sis Project is to move people—you and those you know—away from performative postures and towards a joyful and sustainable practice of creating aware, authentically inclusive and caring communities. Or to put it more directly: just being a better person and co-citizen of this world.

All workshop attendees receive a follow-up recording with additional tools, resources, and a digital version of the original Brave Sis Journey-Journal, for note-keeping, ideating, and building your practice with joy and inspiration.

Rozella Kennedy is the founder of Brave Sis Project and the author of Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History (Workman/Hachette, 2023.) She is also the Director of Impact & Equity for global social advisory consultancy Camber Collective.