[BCMA] Last chance to register! BCMA Workshop: Transforming Workplace Culture - Active Allyship in Challenging Moments

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv]

*BCMA Workshop: Transforming Workplace Culture - Active Allyship in
Challenging Moments*

*Thursday, May 21st, 2026*
*1:00 pm – 4:00 pm PT**Royal BC Museum, 675 Belleville St, Victoria, BC *

This participatory training session will support BCMA members to move the
values of equity, accountability, and repair into tangible, everyday
actions. By exploring scenarios involving interpersonal and systemic power
dynamics that occur within organizations, participants will identify
strategies and hone skills for: noticing insidious forms of
harm/discrimination; receiving disclosures of microaggressions; intervening
in alignment with personal and organizational values; creating environments
of repair among team members; staying accountable when one has caused harm;
and, tailoring response strategies when harm is caused by patrons/members
of the public.

Through self-reflection, small group exercises, scenarios, and large group
discussion, this training session has been designed to support participants
to:


   - Reflect on identity and personal sites of power, privilege, and
   oppression.
   - Explore how these factors (and subsequent biases) inform behaviours,
   interpretations of workplace interactions, and decision-making processes.
   - Make connections between microaggressions, organizational culture, and
   larger trends in retention, promotion, and workplace satisfaction.
   - Practice intervening when microaggressions/oppressions are witnessed
   or reported in the workplace.
   - Receive feedback non-defensively and create the conditions for repair.
   - Assess the systemic conditions that enabled the harm to occur.

This workshop includes light refreshments.

Workshop fee: *$25* for BCMA Members, *$75* for non-members. Register here!
<https://members.museum.bc.ca/public/event/details/4fbd4922a46bace6f8279b1944dab262f955ebf2/1>
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Lorenda Calvert
Programs Manager

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