Safer spaces, Indigenous awareness, and bystander awareness will be the topics for upcoming workshops hosted by the District of Muskoka.
Through the district’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-racism (IDEA) Advisory Group the free virtual training sessions for businesses with 20 employees or less.
Officials with the district explain the Gilbert Centre in Barrie, Ont. will host a four-hour workshop to support, “increasing organizational 2SLGBTQ+ cultural competency to ensure your staff, clients and customers not only feel safe in your workplace but are able to thrive.”
Kelly Brownbill lives in Simcoe County and is a member of the Three Fires Midwein Lodge. She will host a session on Indigenous awareness.
Officials detail how the three-hour session will help, “build a working knowledge of Canadian-Indigenous relations and the issues facing Indigenous people today.”
The last session will be on bystander intervention with guest Julie S. Lalonde. Officials say everyone attending will, “discuss the barriers to intervening in smaller communities and workplaces and help create a toolkit of ways that you can step up when witnessing hate or harassment.”
The sessions will be held between October and November. Anyone interested in attending a workshop must register through the district’s website.
