<div dir="ltr"><div><b>BCMA Workshop: Transforming Workplace Culture - Active Allyship in Challenging Moments</b><br><strong><span style="font-size:14px">Thursday, May 21st, 2026<br></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14px">1:00 pm – 4:00 pm PT<br></span></strong><strong>Royal BC Museum, 675 Belleville St, Victoria, BC </strong><div><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">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.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Through self-reflection, small group exercises, scenarios, and large group discussion, this training session has been designed to support participants to:</span></span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Reflect on identity and personal sites of power, privilege, and oppression.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Explore how these factors (and subsequent biases) inform behaviours, interpretations of workplace interactions, and decision-making processes.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Make connections between microaggressions, organizational culture, and larger trends in retention, promotion, and workplace satisfaction.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Practice intervening when microaggressions/oppressions are witnessed or reported in the workplace.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Receive feedback non-defensively and create the conditions for repair.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Assess the systemic conditions that enabled the harm to occur.</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">This workshop includes light refreshments. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Workshop fee: <b>$25</b> for BCMA Members, <strong>$75</strong> for non-members. <a href="https://members.museum.bc.ca/public/event/details/4fbd4922a46bace6f8279b1944dab262f955ebf2/1">Register here! </a></span></span></p></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mosvbndz0" alt="image.png" width="542" height="542"><br></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Lorenda Calvert<br>Programs Manager</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="1">Pronouns: she/her. To learn why pronouns are important, click <a href="https://equity.ubc.ca/resources/gender-diversity/pronouns/" target="_blank">here</a></font></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">The BC Museums Association office is located on the traditional, unceded lands of the </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/275788251" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Lekwungen</a><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"> peoples (Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations). We respect past, present, and future Indigenous stewards and recognize that we are uninvited guests on this territory.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><div><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:1pt;margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(237,125,49)">BC Museums Association || 675 Belleville Street  || Victoria, BC || V8W 1A1</span></p><p style="color:rgb(136,136,136);margin:0in 0in 1pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><span style="color:rgb(237,125,49);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.66px"><a href="http://www.museum.bc.ca/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">museum.bc.ca</a></span></p><p style="color:rgb(136,136,136);margin:0in 0in 1pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 1pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(237,125,49);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Save the date and <a href="https://museum.bc.ca/conferences-and-events/conference/bcma-2026-conference/" target="_blank">register now</a> for BCMA Conference 2026: People, Purpose and the Power of Gathering, November 3-6th! </span></p><p style="color:rgb(136,136,136);margin:0in 0in 1pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>