InSite offers workshops, consultations, trainings for a wide variety of clients. Each workshop is co-designed with our clients to ensure that the outcomes meet the needs of the organization. We fuse our core curriculum with specific field needs to create professionally relevant and useful trainings.
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Addressing Whiteness
As political and social tensions rise across the country, institutional leaders have turned toward the vital work of racial equity to support fair policy and engagement practices. In this workshop, we invite participants to dismantle the ways that whiteness operates to block the processes and outcomes of racial equity. Addressing Whiteness examines “whiteness,” and the ways hierarchies of whiteness operate, intentionally and unintentionally, in institutional, organizational and personal spaces which prohibit racial equity. We provide tools to move beyond diversity and inclusion to think of equity as a form of radical power-sharing. We understand the difficulty and sensitivity of this topic, and encourage challenging conversations as a pillar of leadership.
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Equitable Engagement
This workshop is for institutional partners who wish to work with historically marginalized communities for organizational and infrastructural purposes. Key to the curriculum: Margins to Center Power, Sharing Leadership, and Understanding Institutional barriers and opportunities for trust-building with the public.
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Creative InSurgencies
For the past two years, InSite has developed a way of thinking about arts, creativity and place in ways that support those most impacted by disparity. We call this work: Creative Insurgency. We build on the work of creative practitioners who have used the arts to rise up in strength and solidarity. Latin insurgentem: rise up, lift oneself; rise against; stand high, gather force. Creative Insurgencies cultivate the radical roots of creative/artistic practices in ways that uphold community organizing strategies and seek to prevent displacement (imprisonment, loss of home, state sanctioned premature death, deportations) of marginalized communities. Creative Insurgencies delink the arts from private development and gentrification practices, and fuse cultural/artistic practices with feminist praxis to demand power-sharing, policy change, and to positively impact the material lives of those most impacted by disparity.
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