Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
If you are white and frustrated because your friends/colleagues of color respond to your request for help with “do your own work first” or “this is a white people’s problem”
If your group, community, or organization is having a difficult time training staff to facilitate cross-culture conversations about race.
If you are a predominantly white spiritual center or church and wondering how to get more people of color to attend your services, start doing the work…
If you are a leader and a bit petrified in this current environment, not sure how to respond, how to make a difference without putting your foot in it…work with us.
Hi, I’m Ruth Littlejohn
I am an African American woman , and a seasoned Diversity, Equity & Inclusion practitioner/trainer. I am able to leverage my 15 plus years of professional and personal experiences along with my education in listening and hearing in order to help clients clarify their vision, and design and implement impactful life changing strategies.
I explore new heights to support clients in creating and sustaining productive and innovative diverse, equitable and inclusive work environments and communities.
I believe to get extraordinary results I have to take risk and explore new ways of letting go of what no longer serves me.
Internalized racism
Childhood secrets and trauma
Life’s many disappointments
I use a holistic approach to my life and work. I have developed this approach with insight and intuition. This approach supports you in responding, “I wanted to give up, but our work together has create a new relatedness for our team and a new focus in their personal lives.”
When I say holistic approach, I mean our work includes:
Learning new informations (mind)
Experiencing new tools and processes to change behavior (heart)
Utilize self-care processes for integrating and sustaining new ways of being (body)
My education, training, experience, and personal development fuel my unique and holistic approach to supporting organizations, communities, and individuals in leveraging their past to create and sustain new ways of being in the world.
“Amazing things happen outside of your comfort zone
—Unknown
Ruth participating in an Outward Bound Adventure
I partner with Champion Fleming, a white transgender person, an organizational development consultant who works with national non-profits and labor unions. They are highly skilled and a compassionate white anti-racist facilitator and trainer.
Champion Fleming
Champion has and continues to embrace their whiteness and speaks candidly and with compassion to other whites to support them in embracing their whiteness without guilt and shame. We constantly debrief and explore our own biases, which enriches our relationship and the quality of our work.
Meet Champion Fleming
An organizational development consultant who works with national non-profits and labor unions
A highly skilled and compassionate white anti-racist trainer
A social justice advocate works on LGBTQIA issues, AIDS awareness, poverty, and racism
A Licensed Center for Spiritual Living minister
A consultant dedicated to their own personal development work
How we work
We facilitate small groups for 8 weeks, 2 hours each session. '
The white participants work with Champion for 6 of the 8 weeks
The People of Color work with me for 6 of the 8 weeks.
Week 7 & 8 Champion and I combine the sessions and facilitate a cross cultural conversation dialogue with questions and answers.
If this 8 week package does not meet your needs, tell us more on the form below. Let us know what would meet your needs and we will tailor the process for you.
What to expect when working with us
We will reduce the tension in your workplace and community environment and foster cross-cultural conversations that support inclusivity and belongingness.
We will foster stronger cross-racial solidarity through raising individual self-awareness, enhancing communication through learned practices, and creating deeper connections in all relationships across race and within our racial identity group.
We will allow you to be grounded in the present and aligned with forward-moving action plans.
What participants are saying about their homogeneous DE&I experience…
People of Color participant:
“You can take this (People of Color Affinity Group Session) and learn more about racism, yourself and what you can do to make a difference. Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know until you are exposed to certain illuminating teachings.”
— B.K
“I enjoyed the experience of working in a group with other Black women. It facilitated increased awareness that I still have much to learn about my own blind spots and about Black History.”
— Dr. K.B
White participant:
“The training changed my life. It uncovered so much unconsciousness in my psyche, educated me in all things that I didn’t know and provided a healing space to accept myself, process and release grief, guilt and shame”
-Rev.V
“I learned things that were totally liberating (and arrived just in time to unfreeze me in a week of challenging leadership), and I felt relief being in a conversation where I could sit without judgment about how much I don't know.”
- White Affinity Group Participant
What clients shared about Ruth’s approach and impact
“…in addition to understanding the culture, her advance work provided her an insight into our journey that allowed her contribution to build on our process and integrate her perspectives with those already present in the organization.”
“There is no real endpoint to developing a diverse multicultural workplace. Dr. Littlejohn has helped us take significant steps in that journey.”
-M. M, P&G
“We have benefited from the sessions by increased information sharing, more collaboration, teamwork awareness, and ultimately, better service to our clients. The staff found your manner of facilitating clear, efficient, interactive and focused.”
-R.F.
Let’s get started!
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