Trainings
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Our Workshops and Trainings
BCTRHT creates spaces for people and organizations to share stories, connect, and work together toward shared goals. Our workshop and training offerings grow directly from that mission. We bring facilitated learning experiences to communities, organizations, and institutions, grounded in our values of racial healing, belonging, and transformation.
All offerings are available by request. Some can be delivered as standalone sessions. Others work best as a series. Reach out to start a conversation about what your community or organization needs.
Embracing Our Shared Humanity (ESH)
ESH is BCTRHT's signature learning framework. It is grounded in the belief that meaningful change begins with how we see and relate to one another. Sessions can be offered as a full series or as standalone workshops tailored to your community or organization's needs. Each session is designed for honest, facilitated conversation, not lecture.
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Listening and Presence
What does it mean to truly hear someone? This session explores how we listen, why we often do not, and what gets in the way of real connection across difference. Participants practice slowing down, staying curious, and creating space for others to be fully heard. Grounded in relational trust-building. Best for: Community groups, nonprofit teams, faith communities, school staff Format: Half-day or 2-hour session | In-person or virtual | Up to 30 participants Investment: Community rate: Free to low-cost. Organizational rate: $500-$1,000.
Identity and Culture
Who are you, and how does that shape how you show up? An exploration of social identity, cultural background, and how our lived experiences influence the way we engage with others. Designed to build self-awareness and deepen empathy across difference. Not a diversity checklist. A real conversation. Best for: Schools, youth programs, workplace teams, community organizations Format: Half-day or 2-hour session | In-person or virtual | Up to 30 participants Investment: Community rate: Free to low-cost. Organizational rate: $500-$1,000.
Conflict and Self-Betrayal
What if the way we see the problem is part of the problem? Drawing on the Arbinger Institute framework and the Anatomy of Peace, this session explores how we get stuck in cycles of conflict, blame, and self-justification, and what it takes to get out of the box. Powerful for teams navigating tension or dysfunction. Best for: Workplace teams, nonprofit staff and boards, organizational leadership Format: Half-day or full-day session | In-person preferred | Up to 25 participants Investment: Community rate: Free to low-cost. Organizational rate: $750-$1,500.
Belonging and Community
What does it actually take to build a place where people stay? This session examines what belonging really means, why it is hard to create, and what organizations and communities can do differently. Participants explore shared values, relational accountability, and what it means to build something that holds people rather than just including them. Best for: Community organizations, nonprofit teams, youth-serving institutions, coalitions Format: Half-day or 2-hour session | In-person or virtual | Up to 30 participants Investment: Community rate: Free to low-cost. Organizational rate: $500-$1,000.
ESH as a Full Series
All four sessions can be offered as a cohort experience over four to six weeks, designed for groups who want to go deeper together. This is the full ESH experience, tested with young adults at Kellogg Community College in Spring 2026. Ideal for organizations investing in long-term culture change or community groups committed to shared learning.
Full series investment: Community rate free to low-cost. Organizational rate: $2,500-$4,000 depending on cohort size and customization.
Additional Offerings
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Racial Healing Circles / Healing Circles
A facilitated space to tell the truth and begin to heal. Racial Healing Circles bring people together across difference to share stories, build trust, and work toward understanding. These are not debates or trainings. They are structured spaces grounded in the TRHT framework, held by trained practitioners. BCTRHT has been facilitating racial healing experiences since 2017. Best for: Community groups, faith communities, coalitions, institutions beginning equity work Format: 2-3 hours | In-person strongly preferred | Group size varies by design Investment: Community rate: Free to low-cost. Organizational or institutional rate: $750-$2,000.
Facilitated Community Conversations
Structured dialogue on the issues that matter most. BCTRHT designs and facilitates public conversations on specific community issues: immigration and enforcement, civic engagement, voting rights, racial equity, and more. We build the container, bring the right voices, and hold the space so the community can have real conversations rather than performative ones. Rooted in our Know Your Rights and Practicing Democracy work. Best for: Community coalitions, nonprofits, local government, schools, faith communities Format: 2-3 hours | In-person | Audience size flexible based on design Investment: Community rate: Free to low-cost. Sponsored or institutional rate: $1,000-$2,500.
Bias and Intersectionality Training
Understanding how identity, power, and perception shape our organizations. Drawing on years of DEI facilitation experience including work with nonprofits, schools, and institutions, this training explores implicit bias, intersecting identities, and how systems shape individual experience. Not a one-time checkbox. A starting point for honest organizational reflection. Best for: Nonprofit staff and boards, healthcare teams, school districts, corporate partners Format: Half-day or full-day | In-person or virtual | Up to 30 participants Investment: Sliding scale: $1,000-$3,500 depending on organization size and scope.
Burnout and Sustainability
What keeps us going without losing ourselves? Grounded in bell hooks' framework on love, the science of the stress cycle, and BCTRHT's own practice of internal care, this workshop helps participants name what burnout actually feels like, understand why it happens, and build a framework for sustaining their work and themselves. Tested at Burma Center in 2025 with a 100 percent recommendation rate. Best for: Nonprofit staff, community organizers, educators, youth workers, caregivers Format: Half-day | In-person or virtual | Up to 30 participants Investment: Community rate: Free to low-cost. Organizational rate: $500-$1,000.
Youth Identity and Civic Voice
Who am I, and what does my voice have to do with my community? Designed for young people ages 14-25, this workshop explores identity, belonging, and what it means to show up as a civic actor. Drawing on BCTRHT's youth development background and ESH framework, adapted for younger audiences. Can be connected to voter registration and GOTV work. Best for: High schools, after school programs, youth organizations, colleges Format: 1.5-3 hours | In-person preferred | Up to 35 participants Investment: Community and school rate: Free to low-cost. Program partnerships: negotiated.
Training Request Form
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