Earning Criteria

• Women, Power & Empowerment: We can’t talk about women’s empowerment without digging into what we mean by power. Women often have a tentative relationship to the word power because we don’t want to uphold the old “power over” paradigms that we’ve experienced. In this workshop we’ll explore new definitions of power and challenge the old notions. Working with models and concepts developed by women, we’ll discuss power and empowerment in our organizations and culture.
• Where are women in Canada Today?: In this workshop we'll take stock of how we're doing so far on gender equity in 2022 in Canada, as well as in your industry, including the learnings, the losses and the gains that have been surfaced by the pandemic. This social context and data are a helpful backdrop to understanding our personal and organizational experiences as women.
• Allyship is a Verb: Many of us want to be good allies, and we definitely want others to be good allies to us, but it can be confusing when we’re also facing the truth of our own conscious and unconscious biases. The reality is none of us are perfect when it comes to diversity and inclusion. We’ve all grown up with varying degrees of stereotypes, sexism, racism and other biases because we’re part of a larger society that is reckoning with these very issues.