Co-Creating Cultures of Belonging: Transformative Consulting & Engaging Workshops

• This workshop will help congregations that are engaging in a hiring process (including the clergy placement process) to better understand how implicit bias unknowingly informs our organizational processes. Participants will also learn how to prioritize equitable recruitment and hiring strategies, resulting in a more diverse applicant pool and increased equity in our communities.
• Target Audience: This workshop is for anyone who is part of any hiring process in your community. Whether on a clergy placement committee, or a part of the search committee for the new Education Director, this workshop is for you!

• This workshop provides a deep dive into microaggressions; what they are and their impact, how to identify and disrupt them, and how to handle them when you inevitably commit one.
• Target Audience: This workshop is great for all members of a community, including boards, congregational staff, greeters (formal and not), etc.

• This workshop teaches us how to be effective greeters to folks from all backgrounds, whether they're members, prospective members, or visitors. A greeting can let someone know, "you belong here". Conversely, lack of a greeting, or the wrong kind of greeting, can unintentionally marginalize individuals and families and signal the exact opposite of what we are aiming to communicate.
• Target Audience: This workshop is great for all members of a community, including boards, congregational staff, greeters (formal and not), etc. This workshop can be useful at any point in the year but may be extra impactful leading up to the High Holidays when our congregations see an influx of people who may not come to our communities year-round.

• This workshop provides suggestions on how to facilitate online or in person using inclusive practices and language. Facilitators will leave feeling prepared to present in ways that seek to affirm all participants.
• Target audience: This workshop is great for congregational staff and lay leaders (ideally anyone who plans/runs a program in your community).

• A foundation setting workshop working to create a classroom that affirms all students and families, including students and families from marginalized groups. This training covers best practices on setting up equitable/accessible classrooms and community rooms, inclusive and affirming language, common microaggressions and their impact, and how to interrupt them in the moment.
• Target audience: This workshop is great for youth educators and teachers.

• This introductory workshop provides a foundational understanding of intersectional antisemitism, what it is, how it manifests, the ways it intersects with other forms of oppression (i.e., racism, ableism and homophobia) and why it's important to recognize and address it.
• Participants will explore the historical roots of antisemitism, including religious, racial, and political forms, and examine contemporary examples in media, politics, and everyday life.
• The workshop also discusses the impact of antisemitism on Jewish communities and offers practical strategies for identifying and challenging antisemitic rhetoric and behavior. It encourages open dialogue and equips attendees with tools to foster inclusive and safe communities.
• Target Audience: This workshop is great for all members of a community. Educators and organizational leaders may find this workshop particularly useful.

• A two-session workshop that dives into what it means to be a white presenting Jew in the United States. These workshops cover topics such as, but not limited to, the history of how Jews came to be seen as "white", the concept of conditional privilege, and how whiteness impacts our lives.
• Target audience: This workshop is great for all members who identify as white in a community, including boards, congregational staff, greeters (formal and not), etc.

• This workshop will teach us how to identify sizeism, weight stigma, and fatphobia in everyday situations, how to disrupt it effectively, the negative impact it has on us and the people around us (including our children), and how to begin to unlearn and question the many ways we were taught to think about health, wellness, and diet culture.
• Target Audience: This workshop is great for all members of a community.

• If choosing a workshop listed above, an optional Q&A session can be added, which will take place at a future date (ideally within 2 weeks of the initial workshop). The facilitator will review the feedback/questions from the post-workshop survey, and ensure all questions are answered, as well as take questions in real-time from the participants.
• Target audience: This session is an add-on to a previous workshop therefore anyone who attended the initial workshop is invited to the Q&A session.

A member of the URJ REDI team will support you through the process of creating a Community of Belonging Working Group in your community. This includes the following:

• An overview of the working group process (i.e., garnering buy-in from the board/key stakeholders, setting shared agreements within the group, the importance of relationship over task).
• How to create a Community of Belonging working group (i.e., how to identify prospective group members, what makes a good group member, how to invite group members, etc.).
• A review of the community assessment and what it measures.
• The expected outcomes of the working group, and where to move the work forward once this specific working group process concludes.

• Includes everything in the self facilitated package, plus a trained URJ professional will facilitate your group for 9 sessions over a 6-9 month period.

• An hour-long DEI consulting call can be booked at any point to discuss anything DEI related that you would like! It can be about a specific issue, project, or idea.