Information index: Opportunities

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Consulting and Personalized Support

Work with Jessie one-on-one or in a customized way that meets the needs of your goals, program, or organization.

Social Change Mentoring: Power Hour Call(s)

If you want to strengthen your skills and learn new approaches to inspire and facilitate sustainable social change, this is your chance to tap into the unparalleled experience and guidance of Jessie Sutherland.

3 Steps To Build a Culture of Belonging - Workbook

Belonging Matters: Customizable, Online & Live Trainings

These programs are all based on our award-winning Belonging Matters framework. Online and in-person options are available (or in development).

Belonging Matters Foundations

The Belonging Matters Foundations five-part training series provides practical tools and approaches to engage diversity, build cultures of belonging and ignite collaboration in order to address complex social problems.

Belonging Matters Foundations - Workbooks - Collection

Roadmap for Community Change

Participants learn where and how to focus their efforts for the greatest impact in their social change efforts and will have a clear plan to bridge the gap between people with lived experience and system influencers.

Roadmap For Community Change - Workbook

Being a Belonging Champion

Participants will re-exam their beliefs about the world and their values while learning a new approach to responding to personal, workplace and community challenges.

Being a Belonging Champion - Workbook

Essential Worldview Skills For a Rapidly Changing World

Participants will learn what a worldview is, why it matters, and how to use their new awareness to support long-term transformative change in individuals, organizations, and communities.

Essential Worldview Skills - Workbook

Addressing Racism From The Inside Out

In this training, participants will learn how to address racism effectively from within themselves, as bystanders and as targets to help create safe, respectful workplaces and community cultures.

Addressing Racism From the Inside Out - Workbook

How to Unleash Dormant Talents

In this training, participants will deepen their capacity to listen for worldviews, strengths and needs. And most importantly, they’ll generate creative ideas to address needs through individual and group strengths.

How to Unleash Dormant Talents - Workbook

Create Powerful Challenge Statements

Learn how you can use challenge statements as a communication tool to inspire others to join your effort, avoid scope creep, and help your whole team focus their efforts for greater impact.

Create Powerful Challenge Statements - Workbook

Belonging Matters Conversations

In this series of customized, facilitated conversations, participants come together in a collaborative, problem-solving approach to build belonging and, together, address their priority challenges.

Belonging Matters Conversations - Workbook

Belonging Matters Conversations For Leaders

In this series of customized, facilitated conversations, leaders come together in a collaborative, problem-solving approach to address their priority challenges.

Belonging Matters Conversations For Leaders

Belonging Matters Conversations For workplaces

In this series of customized, facilitated conversations, teams and organizations come together in a collaborative, problem-solving approach to address their priority challenges in the workplace.

Belonging Matters Conversations For Workplaces - Workbook

Belonging Matters Conversations For Communities

In this series of customized, facilitated conversations, community members come together in a collaborative, problem-solving approach to address their priority challenges.

Belonging Matters Conversations For Communities - workbook

Belonging Matters For Facilitators

If you'd like to learn how to lead others through the Belonging Matters framework, these trainings will guide you. Online and in-person options are available (or in development).

Belonging Matters Conversations Facilitator Training

Facilitators within organizations are equipped with the in-house knowledge and tools to foster belonging, increase meaningful participation and engagement, and gain insight for service improvement for sustainable change.

Belonging Matters Conversations Facilitator Training - Binder

Experience & Understand Belonging Matters Conversations

Gain competence and confidence as you understand the rationale behind each step of the process. Learn to amplify the strengths of participants while also avoiding facilitation pitfalls that erode a sense of belonging.

Experience & Understand Belonging Matters Conversations - Workbook

Co-Facilitate Belonging Matters Conversations

Co-facilitate a Belonging Matters Conversation with colleagues and apply all you have learned in this unique training experience. Facilitators receive both tools and 1:1 feedback to assess their skills.

Co-Facilitate Belonging Matters Conversations - Workbook

Engage Diversity – Convening Tools and Practices (Art of Inviting)

Convening a Belonging Matters Conversation is an art. When facilitators learn the art of inviting, engagement skyrockets and the facilitator begins each relationship on the right foot with stronger connections.

Engage Diversity – Convening Tools and Practices – Workbook

Belonging Matters For System Change

For long-term projects, we take leaders through our system to create social change within organizations and communities.

Measure & Accelerate Belonging

Learn a proven evaluation process for measuring and deepening your program’s impact with global experts Michael Quinn Patton and Jessie Sutherland.

Measure & Accelerate Belonging - Resources

Belonging Matters Toolkit for System Change

For changemakers who are ready to lead a long-term community transformation process that builds capacity and leads to system change with lasting results, this customized coaching package is for you.

Belonging Matters Toolkit for System Change - Workbook

Books & eBooks

Jessie's books synthesize cutting-edge scholarly research on the most promising practices for transforming deep-rooted conflict into peaceful co-existence.

Worldview Skills: Transforming Conflict from the Inside Out

Jessie Sutherland weaves community-based stories, scholarly research, and over 20 years experience of practice into this practical guide for leaders around the world.

Worldview Skills: Transforming Conflict from the Inside Out by Jessie Sutherland

Complimentary Resources

Learn more about Jessie Sutherland, Intercultural Strategies, and the Belonging Matters framework and take your first steps towards building cultures of belonging.

Build Belonging From the Inside Out: LIVE Zoom Webinar

(on summer break) Returns fall 2024

Join fellow leaders in an energizing session to build belonging from the inside out. Learn how to BE the change while you facilitate change in your workplace and/or community.

Build Belonging From the Inside Out - Online Gathering - VideoScreen

Tools for Genuine Reconciliation PDF Bundle

Access our Tools for Genuine Reconciliation PDF handout collection so that you can avoid common pitfalls and instead anchor your approach with the essential knowledge and skills for success.

Tools for Genuine Reconciliation PDF Bundle

Culture of Belonging Temperature Check (Assessment Tool)

Take the Culture of Belonging Temperature Check to lay out your roadmap to address people problems effectively with greater impact, less effort and lasting results.

Culture of Belonging Temperature Check

3 Strategies Every Leader Needs To Know To Facilitate Change

CHANGES IN PROGRESS

In this 60-minute complimentary webinar, learn about 3 strategies that will help you as a leader know where and how to focus your efforts in times of disruption and rapid change.

3 Strategies Every Leader Needs To Know To Facilitate Change - Workbook

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