workshops, Team coaching, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Report

Consulting & Workshops

I work in collaboration with other consultants and DE&I professionals to create engagements that are fun, effective, and impactful. Schedule a call to explore your needs and if we have alignment on an approach, timing, values, and budget.

  • Team coaching in collaboration with other educational trainings.

  • Retreat Support - Somatic/embodiment healing based support for your leadership team and/or strategic planning support.

  • Consulting on sustainable and supportive diversity, equity, inclusion, and culture initiatives.

  • Weaving cutting-edge diversity and inclusion scholarship into organizational strategy, including Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmarks (GDIB).

  • Responsive project design and management; organizational assessments; affinity group facilitation/caucus spaces, and conflict resolution interventions; anti-oppression informed advising on conflict management systems that center justice, growth, and relationships over punitive responses.

  • Critical reflective identity development trainings and workshops. Topics include internalized biases and identity-development trainings with attention to race/ethnicity, ability, class/SES, gender identity, gender-expression, sexual/romantic orientation, veteran/active duty, nationality, etc. and art/creative practices and team-building to promote and develop a sense of belonging. Topics include:

    • Balancing  Joy and Desolation – Supporting Staff Burnout Reduction and Wellbeing - feeling and resisting the ugliness around and within us, moving towards love, dignity and justice.

    • Unpacking and Disrupting Sexism

    • Strategies for Allyship and Advocacy: Exploring Systemic Pervasive Nature of Oppression, Power, And Privilege

    • Embodiment Skills to Support Staff Wellbeing and Adaptive Leadership

    • Introduction to Building Embodied Intercultural Competency

    • Strengthening Effective Communication through Building Intercultural Competence

    • Intergenerational Relationship Building

Build Intercultural Competence On Your Team

  • Enhance Intercultural Competence with the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI®). The IDI is a premier cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence used by individuals and organizations globally to achieve diversity and inclusion goals and outcomes. We offer Intercultural Competence Assessment Packages and related trainings for select individuals and/or teams.

  • This is a valuable baseline assessment and benchmarking tool for your organization. In-depth insights on how individuals and/or their team respond to cultural differences along a continuum of cross-cultural competence.

Colorado diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report

In October 2022, Slow Integration Coaching's Sarah Rimmel collaborated with Energize Colorado and the Consumer Insights & Business Innovation Center (CIBIC) at the Daniels College of Business to analyze the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) Consulting and Coaching field in Colorado. The initiative aimed to identify gaps, challenges, and opportunities for small business owners engaged in DE&I work. Through comprehensive data analysis, the project sought to understand industry norms, foster collaboration, and promote growth.

The project's goal is to address societal issues by leveraging the unique skills and commitment of DEI practitioners. Despite industry dynamism and diverse providers, the field faces misunderstanding and undervaluation. Collaboration among practitioners, and support from the broader community, could significantly impact Colorado, enhancing outcomes and supporting positive change.

Further Intentions:

Social issues occurring in the world are connected to what we pay attention to and don’t pay attention to, histories uplifted and erased, ideologies that are embedded in our systems, interactions, bodies, minds, and hearts, and much more. Put another way, organizations continue to experience challenges in effectively hiring, retaining, and engaging their diverse workforces. This is where DEI practitioners come in. 

Rather than doing things the same way expecting different results, DEI practitioners support people to think and act differently. DEI professionals are developed in a unique combination of competencies to help organizations and individuals change and improve their outcomes– all under the umbrella of DEI+ solutions. 

In the report, learn about this dynamic industry, how people approach their work, common challenges, and recommendations. Imagine if practitioners who are supporting Colorado organizations in culture change can better track their outcomes across the state, can more easily collaborate on larger and shared projects, and can grow and focus on what they do best?  

Your involvement can make a meaningful difference in advancing DEI-driven change across our organizations and communities in Colorado. To contribute to this initiative, sponsor, or collaborate, contact Sarah Rimmel at hello@sarahrimmel.com. This group of entrepreneurs has large scaling potential to positively impact the state of Colorado given the right support to bring our resources, labor, and knowledge together.

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