Founded in 2021, we set out to support organizations and workplaces in the Pacific Northwest that may not have the in-house capacity or expertise to design and deliver DEIJB learning and development strategies.
By co-designing and providing learning experiences tailored to your needs and people, we handle some of the heavy lifting for you, making the capacity-building and organizational transformation journey a little easier.
We’re about creating tailored, strategic, and measurable learning experiences where employees can see themselves in this mutually beneficial DEIJB work and feel empowered and safe enough to practice, make mistakes, and keep on doing the work. These experiences will complement your organization-wide DEIJB strategy and culture change efforts already underway. We’ll use what works, leverage existing data and knowledge, and listen to your wisdom to do this. Then, compañera/o/x, we'll create a learning experience as unique as your organization and the communities you serve.
1. Click below to tell us about your needs and receive a cost estimate
2. We'll meet to get a feel for each other and clarify solutions
3. We sign a contract or agreement
4. You fill out our client customization questionnaire
5. We'll do some extra client engagement if it's needed
6. You'll review and approve the customized learning curriculum
7. You or we deliver the learning experience(s) or solution(s)
8. We review and celebrate our outcomes and learnings
Our expertise spans three key areas, and we offer three versatile learning solutions: e-learning courses, in-person workshops, or a blend of both. This flexibility allows us to cater to your specific learning needs.
How do we deliver the learning solution? There are three options for that, too.
A) We can do it
B) We teach you how to do it with a curriculum and guide
C) We implement it together through train-the-trainer and co-facilitated pilot sessions
We can deliver the learning solution in the way that best fits your needs and resources.
Regardless of your learning topics or preferred delivery method, we are committed to customization. We tailor the learning to your organization's values and performance needs, and can even incorporate any compelling employee or community data you want to include. This ensures that the learning is not just relevant, but also resonates with your people and what this practice looks like in their roles and operations.
Explore our three learning topics options below and imagine how powerful they would be tailored to your audience and mission.
Are you ready to lay the groundwork for incorporating DEIJB discussions into your daily operations and decision-making? This curriculum provides you with essential vocabulary and terms, insights into racism (and other 'isms') yesterday and today; and offers best practices for driving personal and institutional action.
Ready to build on your foundations by challenging those unseen biases shaping decisions in HR or people management? Let's unravel the unseen web of unconscious bias, how iy 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 we can transform our environments and institutions to minimize its influence.
Ready to build on DEIJB foundations with improvements to how we partner with service users/constituents/community? This curriculum deep-dives into the nuanced art of cultural humility. This practice invites us to lean into self-awareness and attunement of ourselves and others through ongoing exploration of our socialization, deep listening, and awareness of traumas and strengths. All in a bid to forge fruitful and mutually beneficial connections.
Hola Companeros. My name is Patty Narvaez-Wheeler. I’m a Nicaraguan-American, adult learning expert, solopreneur, 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, reflection, and practice to advance social justice movement-building. I want to support DEIJB leaders who are too often understaffed in laying the foundations and equip them with measurable, positive results.
This work is not meant to be done in isolation; let’s work together as way-finders and change-makers.
