Event Series:
Strengthening Belonging, Responsiveness & Healing-Centered Practices: 3 Part Webinar Series
Strengthening Belonging, Responsiveness & Healing-Centered Practices: 3 Part Webinar Series
July 14 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
This three-part webinar series explores how individuals and organizations can strengthen belonging, responsiveness, and resilience in their daily work. Designed for leaders, practitioners, and teams seeking practical tools and applied learning, the series offers frameworks, reflective dialogue, and strategies that can be used across diverse settings. Sessions 1 and 2 build a foundational and applied understanding of how assumptions and mental shortcuts develop, how they show up in workplace interactions, and how teams can recognize and interrupt their influence on communication, collaboration, and decision-making. Session 3 focuses on healing-centered practices, grounding participants in approaches that promote wellness, transparency, and collective care during times of change and challenge.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Understand how assumptions, bias, and mental shortcuts develop and influence workplace interactions and decision-making.
- Recognize how unexamined patterns can impact communication, collaboration, workplace culture, and service delivery.
- Develop practical strategies to interrupt bias and strengthen belonging-centered and responsive practices.
- Explore trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches that support resilience, wellness, and collective care.
- Identify tools and practices that promote psychological safety, accountability, adaptability, and long-term organizational well-being.
Trainers
Each 90-minute session is facilitated by Dr. Ashley Stewart and Dwayne Watkins, MPH of C4 Innovations, nationally recognized leaders in belonging-centered practice and organizational development. At the end of each webinar, participants will be invited to continue the conversation through individualized technical assistance or organizational consultation tailored to their needs.
Dr. Ashley Stewart (She/Her) is the Director of the Center for Strategic Transformation at C4 Innovations and an Assistant Professor at Temple University’s School of Social Work. Her work focuses on advancing equity-centered organizational change and addressing institutionalized forms of identity-based oppression. Ashley provides training, consultation, and strategic support to organizations seeking to build more inclusive, anti-oppressive, and sustainable workplace cultures. Her expertise includes racial equity, organizational transformation, mental health, and anti-oppressive practice.
Dwayne Watkins, MPH (He/Him) is the Manager II of Strategic Transformation at C4 Innovations, where he leads organizational development, strategic planning, training, and community engagement initiatives focused on advancing equity and systems transformation. His work supports organizations in strengthening inclusive communication, psychological safety, organizational wellness, and belonging-centered workplace culture. Dwayne facilitates trainings and technical assistance related to implicit bias, trauma-informed practice, resilience, and equity-centered change strategies.
