Services: Training & EDUCATION

Educational Workshops
Mayeno Consulting designs and delivers educational workshops to support groups to improve communication, build relationships and develop skills and knowledge to strengthen their work. We emphasize interactive processes that encourage participants to reflect upon and learn from their own experience and others in the group. Both the content and learning methods may be tailored to the group. Training can be supplemented with coaching or group facilitation to integrate knowledge into day-to-day practice.

Curriculum Design
We also support organizations in designing their own training programs. We assist them in defining and assessing their audience as well as thinking through their objectives, training philosophy, and approach. We work with them to design their training activities and structure their training plan and can also assist with written training manuals.

Workshop Topics

• Communication
  • Collaborative Communication Guidelines and Skills
  • Authentic Communication for Empowered Teams
  • Authentic Communication for Supervisors
  • Courageous Conversations Around Culture, Power and Difference
  • Communicating "Beyond the Choir": Dialogue Without Agreement
  
  
• Multicultural Organizational Development
  • Multicultural Organizational Development: Principles and Tools for Assessment and Planning

  • Building an Organizational Culture that Supports Multiculturalism
  • The Role of Leaders in a Multicultural Change Process
  • Empowering and Sustaining Change Agents
  • Building Engagement and Shared Ownership for Multicultural Change
  
  
• Multicultural Awareness and Inclusion
  • Culture, Power and Difference: Self-Awareness as a Pathway to Connection
  • Honoring Experiences of Mixed Race People
  • Creating Safe Spaces for LGBTQ Youth and Their Families
  
  
• Theories and Strategies
  • Developing Frameworks to Address Culture and Difference
    
  • Understanding, Developing and Applying Theories of Change
    
  • Community-Based Public Health: Concepts and Tools
    
  • Understanding and Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression 

    
  • Health Inequities: Exploring Root Causes
    
  • Health Determinants: The Cycle of Health at Individual, Community and Institutional Levels
  
  
• Leadership Development
  • Community-Based Leadership Development
  • Discovering and Creating Ourselves as Leaders
  • Leadership in Action
  
  
• Training and Facilitation

  • Designing and Conducting Educational Sessions 

  • Facilitating Group Processes 

  • Training of Trainers

"The questions posed and exercises and conversations we engaged in were to-the-point and expanded our understanding of what communication is. All of us learned from the workshop, and we left with a deep commitment to putting into practice the lessons learned..."

—Nadine Ghammache, Director of Individual and Community Giving, La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley