Rather than fighting resistance, organizations can learn to embrace pushback as an expected part of building a more racially equitable, inclusive, environmentally conscious, and social justice-oriented organizational culture.

Systems are designed to build continuity and consistency. Changes to the system will inevitably result in resistance/pushback, whether it is structural or human behavior. When we expect resistance, we can plan for it, depersonalize it, acknowledge it and work with it.

This session will deliver a framework and offer participants time to workshop a pocket of resistance they are currently working through by asking:

• How do some human behaviors represent symptoms of the system, and what are these representations trying to tell you?  What is the resistance pointing to below the surface line?
• Where does that specific energy of resistance belong?
• What is its origin and its goal?

Discover the answers to these questions to depersonalize resistance and make it part of the work. 

Cost

$45 for NAO Members
$75 for Nonmembers
This event is Network Pass eligible.

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