We've been your partners in progress since 2021, lighting the way for businesses in the Pacific Northwest lacking the staff or know-how to build and weave effective "DEI" learning and development opportunities into their fabric. Our strength? Working hand-in-hand with you to craft and execute custom learning experiences rooted in adult learning best practices that meet your unique demands and local history. Our whole purpose is to make the journey of workforce capacity-building and culture change more manageable for you by doing some of the heavy lifting.
We’re about creating tailored, strategic, and measurable learning experiences where leaders and employees of all kinds, regardless of sector, industry, or role, can see themselves in this mutually beneficial and critical work. Our participants value our custom learning experiences because they feel empowered and safe enough to discuss, practice, make mistakes, and take action. These experiences will complement your organization-wide equity and inclusion 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 measurable learning experience as unique as your organization to help you build capacity and competency.
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1. Start by clicking below to tell us about your needs and receive a cost estimate
2. We'll meet soon to get a feel for each other and detail our partnership
3. You fill out our client customization questionnaire
4. You'll review and approve your customized learning experience
5. You or we deliver the learning experience
6. We review the data and celebrate our outcomes
Our expertise spans three key areas, and we offer three learning methods to cater to your specific workforce and learning needs.
1. Virtual E-learnings
2. In-person workshops
3. A blend of both (1&2)
How do we deliver the learning solution? There are three options for that, too.
A) We deliver the learning
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
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, 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 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 to 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, 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 reflection to advance social justice movement-building and workplace culture transformation. I want to equip DEIJB leaders who are too often understaffed with foundational and effective learning and development strategies that produce results they can leverage and be proud of.
This work is not meant to be done in isolation; let’s work together as way-finders and change-makers.
