Expanding Capacity for Equity and Belonging
Custom learning solutions and guidance to align performance and practice with business and community needs.
Introducing Practica Consulting.
Your partner in transformation
Since 2020, we've been your partners in organizational capacity building for equity and belonging, cultural humility in partnerships, and bias reduction in decision-making through custom learning experiences and tailored organizational guidance.
We support values-centered leaders and mission-driven organizations and municipalities on their transformation journey by taking care of your journey's learning and development-related deliverables to better policies, processes, and practices.
Whether you are doubling down on your DEIJB efforts, re-strategizing your approach, or simply don't have the staff, we're here for you. We bring the real-world research, adult learning best practices, and empowerment skills you don't have time or capacity for.
Our whole purpose is to make the journey of professional capacity-building and culture change more manageable by laying foundations and sharing the load efficiently and responsibly.
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Panacea or one-size-fits-all "training"? We don’t do that.
Our unique strengths? We are bespoke, practical, and streamlined. We craft and execute strengths-based and measurable learning experiences customized to your audience, organizational values, and partnership needs so that leaders and employees of all kinds see themselves as essential contributors to this mutually beneficial change work. Our participants value our learning experiences because we demystify this topic with practicality and relevance and provide a safe and empowering space to discuss, reflect, and practice for real-life application.
We partnered with Practica Consulting to develop tailored training for our staff. The collaborative and iterative approach provided time and space for us to contribute, and they included our strategic plans, making the examples and exercises relevant and relatable...
Woodland Park Zoo, 2024
Don't worry. We're easy to work with.
Here's how our simple process usually goes
- Start by clicking below to tell us about you and your learning needs
- Receive a cost estimate and proposed scope of work.
- We'll schedule an initial consultation to finalize partnership terms
- You fill out our client customization questionnaire
- We meet 2-3 more times to learn more about you and talk next steps
- You review and approve your customized curriculum
- You or we deliver the learning experience(s)
- We debrief and deliver a summary learning outcomes report
Imagine the impact of these tailored to your audience.
We offer three methods for delivering our learning topics to your target audience.
1. Virtual self-paced, E-learning course(s)
2. In-person facilitator-led workshop(s)
3. A blend of both e-learning(s) + facilitated workshop(s)
The Building Blocks of Equity & Belonging
Smarter Choices: Recognizing and Reducing Implicit Bias
Smarter Choices: Recognizing and Reducing Implicit Bias
Are you ready to lay the groundwork for incorporating DEIB discussions into your regular operations and decision-making? This curriculum provides you with essential vocabulary and terms, insights into systems and disparate outcomes, andoffers best practices for driving personal and institutional action no matter your identity, role or industry
Smarter Choices: Recognizing and Reducing Implicit Bias
Smarter Choices: Recognizing and Reducing Implicit Bias
Smarter Choices: Recognizing and Reducing Implicit Bias
Ready to build on your foundations by challenging those unseen biases shaping decisions in HR, people management, or service delivery? Let's unravel the unseen web of unconscious bias, how it operates in our bodies, and why it can misguide our intentions and results. But we're not just stopping at personal strategies to tackle implicit bias. We'll also explore how to transform our environments and institutions to minimize their influence.
Better Partnerships with Cultural Humility
Smarter Choices: Recognizing and Reducing Implicit Bias
Better Partnerships with Cultural Humility
Ready to build on DEIB foundations with improvements to how we partner with service users/constituents/community orgs? This curriculum deep-dives into the nuanced and evidence-based art of cultural humility. This practice invites us to lean into self-awareness and attunement of ourselves and to others through ongoing exploration of our socialization, deep listening, and honoring traumas and strengths. All in a bid to forge fruitful and mutually beneficial connections.
About me
Patty Narváez-Wheeler
Hola Companeros. My name is Patty Narvaez-Wheeler. I’m a Nicaraguan-American, adult learning expert, small business owner, and mother of two with fifteen years of experience building the capacity of people and institutions in the Pacific Northwest to prioritize and practice racial equity and cultural humility and minimize implicit bias in decision making. I’m a certified instructional designer by the Association of Talent Development and I have a Master’s Degree in Social Work. My core values are knowledge, curiosity, collective care, beauty, and accountability, which naturally drive Practica, too.
Why do I do this work? I have a passion for learning and liberation and a practical belief in the power of knowledge, practice, and relationship building to transform culture and systems and help us be better humans, leaders, community partners, and stewards of our professional power. I want to equip DEIB leaders who are too often understaffed or overwhelmed with practical capacity-building strategies and outcomes they can leverage for the next steps in the journey.
This work is not meant to be done in isolation; let’s work together as way-finders and change-makers.
To keep you special I work with just three clients a year.
