At Manchester Pride, one of our top aims is to campaign for the advancement of LGBTQ+ equality at home and abroad. To achieve this goal, we want to support our professional communities with improving their understanding of important LGBTQ+ inclusion topics. As such, Manchester Pride’s All Equals Charter Team have developed a number of talks and workshops which can be booked to be delivered to your teams.
Each of the of the talks and workshops listed below provide a positive, safe space for your staff to learn and grow without judgement, while delivering expert insights into the state of LGBTQ+ equality today and how your organisation can get involved in creating a world where everyone can be free to live and love without prejudice and where LGBTQ+ people and cultures can be universally celebrated.
Each of the talks listed below are thirty minutes long, involving a presentation from one of our expert team members, followed by an additional fifteen minutes for questions and discussion. Each talk is £250 + VAT and can be delivered in-person and/or online.
Pride is a social movement to not just celebrate LGBTQ+ communities, but to advocate and fight for LGBTQ+ inclusion and liberation. To support businesses and organisations with getting involved, Manchester Pride’s official Pride Keynote provides an introductory overview of the ways LGBTQ+ people are oppressed, the history and future of the Pride movement (including Manchester Pride’s history and current work today), and how attendees can each support LGBTQ+ inclusion in their work and lives. By the end of this talk attendees will learn best practice for LGBTQ+ allyship and how to get involved in today’s global Pride movement.
This accessible talk will provide a clear introduction to attendees on transgender and non-binary identities and the issues these communities are facing in the UK today. Bridging theory and practice, attendees will learn about the systemic oppression of trans people and the practical tools for implementing trans inclusion in the workplace. By the end of the session everyone will have a practical understanding of how to support trans and non-binary clients, customers and colleagues, as well as how this support benefits everyone else as well.
In this talk, attendees will learn top tips on how to be a good ally to LGBTQ+ communities, and how to make sure this allyship is intersectional, supporting groups across multiple marginalisations. By the end of this talk, your team will learn the different approaches to allyship and intersectionality, the interconnectedness of oppressions and how, without supporting the inclusion of all groups, we will never achieve inclusion for any group.
Workplace equality, diversity and inclusion endeavours have been going on in the UK for over sixty years. Despite this, the landscape for marginalised workers is still incredibly bleak and inequality is still a significant issue. In this talk, attendees will learn some common mistakes in workplace inclusion and what is needed in order to move beyond tickbox exercises and instead create authentic, meaningful change for marginalised staff. By the end of this talk, attendees will have a confident understanding of the innovative, new approaches it will take to become industry leaders in workplace inclusion and how Manchester Pride and the All Equals Charter can help.
This LGBTQ+ History talk will bring to life the stories of LGBTQ+ people across time and their innovative endeavours overcoming hate, resisting oppression and creating joy. Key to this celebration will be the important role QTIPOC (queer, trans and intersex people of colour) communities have played in shaping some of the most influential elements of queer culture, expression and liberation. By the end of this talk, attendees will learn the reasons many LGBTQ+ people have been erased or forgotten from history, some key moments in the UK’s LGBTQ+ history and the opportunities that exist today for us each to make history as we continue to fight for intersectional LGBTQ+ liberation.
If your team is struggling with a certain issue or is interested in learning a particular topic that is not provided above, please get in touch and we will discuss our opportunities to create a bespoke talk for your team. Terms and conditions may apply.
‘Liberation and You’ is a series of workshops designed to support each individual attendee with feeling personally connected and engaged with the aims of inclusivity and social justice. Bridging theory and practice, each session should improve attendee knowledge of systemic oppression and the practicalities of addressing and overcoming the root causes of inequality and exclusion in the workplace.
These 2.5 hour workshops can be delivered in any order with each featuring an accessible introduction to a different area of oppression, interactive activities to support understanding and frameworks to write and review action plans for creating positive change.
At the end of every session there will be a safe space for any questions, including an opportunity to submit questions anonymously. Questions will be answered without judgement or scolding in order to ensure attendees feel supported in getting their needs met.
Each workshop is £500 + VAT and can be delivered in-person or online.
People are tired of tick-box exercise, actions that claim to support marginalised communities but do nothing to affect authentic, meaningful change. Yet it can be hard to know what to do instead, and whether your inclusivity plans are the best course of action. Systems of oppression are so vast and complicated that we can often feel unable or unsure how to make the large-scale changes needed to make a better world for everyone. But we don’t have to accept that inequality is ‘just the way things are’ and that there is nothing we can do about it.
In this workshop attendees will be introduced to systemic oppression and how it is organised by social institutions. From here, the workshop will explore the history of social organising for successfully creating positive change, introducing attendees to practical steps for networking, partnering and coalition building with others for tackling systemic issues. By the end of the session participants will have a stronger understanding of how they can ensure their inclusivity endeavours are authentic and meaningful, and how they can each individually get involved in making a meaningful difference for the liberation of all.
The prospect of getting involved in workplace and community inclusion can elicit a variety of emotional responses. Some find it daunting and intimidating. Others get defensive and resentful. Some can feel both passionate and exhausted. But in each of these cases, most people underestimate just how much their involvement matters for making a positive change. It can be easy to feel insignificant in the grand scheme of things, powerless in the face of society’s larger systems of power. But we are each so much more than cogs in a machine, and our voices and insights matter when it comes to shaping our workplaces and our society.
In this workshop attendees will be introduced to systemic oppression and how it is managed by bureaucratic mechanisms. This workshop will review the ways in which the general population are made docile and obedient, unable and unwilling to challenge the status quo and revolt against unfair social systems. From here, attendees will learn some practical tactics for managing up, feeling empowered, getting their needs met, working collaboratively and ensuring that everyone matters in both their workplaces and communities.
One of the most common barriers to inclusion is the fear of getting things wrong. So worried about offending someone, many will try to play it safe by simply avoiding people with different identities than their own. But all this does is ostracise and exclude marginalised communities, and deepen the divisions between different groups. This division is a key goal of systemic oppression, giving us the false sense that we are each too different from one another to understand and support each other. But you are not alone in your struggles, and there is so much power to be found when we connect with those from different communities.
In this workshop attendees will be introduced to systemic oppression and how it is justified by cultural belief systems. This workshop will review how misremembered history, social discourses and ‘common sense’ can all uphold the status quo, while varying kinds of domination and oppression work together to maintain one another. At the end of this session, attendees will work through a practical workshop on improving their confidence in inclusion by creating an action plan for them to each work alongside those from different social groups than their own, identifying their personal stakes and individual skills to more meaningfully connect with others in the collective pursuit of social change.
How many of us feel like we aren’t good enough? Like we need to do more, learn more and give more in order to be a good person and earn our place in the world? Systems of oppression shape our everyday relationships with other people, limiting our ability to meaningfully connect with others and making us each feel like we can never truly belong. But it doesn’t have to be this way. You are already good enough, and you deserve a world where your everyday interactions and relationships celebrate and affirm your value.
In this workshop attendees will be introduced to systemic oppression and how it is experienced on a day to day level. The workshop will explore how issues related to unconscious biases, microaggressions and code switching are deeply harmful for our mental health and wellbeing, both as individuals and as a community. By the end of this session, attendees will learn practical skills in setting value-based boundaries, maintaining wellbeing and finding joy through personal expression and meaningful connections.
If your team is struggling with a certain issue or is interested in learning a particular topic that is not provided above, please get in touch and we will discuss our opportunities to create a bespoke workshop for your team. Terms and conditions may apply.
Bespoke expert consultations on best practice for workplace and community equality, diversity and inclusion endeavours are available to members of the All Equals Charter.
