Upcoming Workshops

This lunch & learn is intended for anyone who is interested in developing their workplace culture toward greater inclusion and belonging.

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Are you feeling stuck in your DEIBelonging work? Have you lost momentum for change in your organization? One of the most common pitfalls of DEIB work in teams and organizations is falling into the trap of status inversion.

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Status inversion shows up when an organization genuinely wants to advance equity but ends up flipping who is seen as credible instead of changing the deeper rules of the game. Rather than separating competence and leadership from things like race, gender, or sexual orientation, those assumptions quietly get reassigned. White employees may feel their perspectives don’t count in equity conversations, while employees of color may be treated as if they’re supposed to have the right answers—or carry the hard conversations—simply because of who they are. That pressure isn’t fair, and it often means important, nuanced discussions never really happen.

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Even though this dynamic can look like progress on the surface, it keeps the same hierarchy in place, leading to tension, withdrawal, and burnout. Real transformation happens when we stop tying worth, competence, and leadership to identity at all—not when we just reshuffle who holds status.

 

Representing two years of field research, this lunch & learn will focus on how DEI facilitation can inadvertently contribute to status inversions and how to recognize, avoid, and repair them.

This topic is sure to bring up many questions and concerns, so the last 20 minutes of the session will be dedicated to Q&A.

 

Facilitator: J.P. Anderson, Ph.D.

Location: This event is virtual and the Zoom link can be found on the event page.

Schedule: Friday, Feburary 27, 2026 at 12:00pm-1:30pm PT / 3:00pm-4:30pm ET

Pricing: $100

 

*No refunds for any reason 7 days prior to the workshop, although you are welcome to gift your seat to a colleague.*

 

​Other Important Information:

• Please log on 5-10 minutes early to say hello and check you audio/video. We will start promptly at 12:00pm PT / 3:00pm ET.

• If more than one person from your organization attends, please be sure each person has their own computer. Each person from your organization is required to buy a ticket.

• Zoom and other important details will be available on the event page.

• Given the challenges of talking about racism, everyone is required to have their video camera turned on during the workshop. If for some reason you are unable to do so, please contact us in advance.

 

Accessiblity

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Cultures Connecting is committed to making our workshops accessible to everyone and have designed our workshops with this in mind.

 

Our virtual workshops are on Zoom which provides live captioning in 46 languages. Powerpoints are accessible and can be requested ahead of time. Most of our handouts are in PDF format so MS Word versions are available upon request. Please indicate this and any other accessibility needs during registration.

If you have any suggestions to help us provide equitable access to your learning experience please contact Judy Lee at judy.lee@culturesconnecting.com.