Category: Advising & Consulting

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Bad Faith Communication

Bad faith is a pervasive and destructive force in society that undermines trust, cooperation, and the ability to resolve conflicts peacefully. It takes many forms, including hypocrisy, breach of contract, affectation, and lip service, and can involve both intentional deception of others and self-deception.

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WAYS TO RESPOND TO INJUSTICE 

These alliterative techniques for responding to injustice from Claudia Alick of Calling Up Justice are inspired by bystander trainings, peer exchange sessions, and personal experience. The “three D’s” are ways to respond direct, delayed, or delegated response. The “seven R’s” are types of response Request More Info, Redirect, Remove, Reflect, Reframe, Record, Re-educate.

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“I’m One of the Good Ones”: Ugly Laws, Survival, and the Power of Celebrating Things that Aren’t Pretty

It was just me understanding that if I am a coded as being societally “ugly” in specific ways that I will not receive the care and treatment I need. So, I told myself, “I have to be the most attractive sick person, the most able-bodied-looking sick person.” Adding on to that, I also am expected to complain about not being able to aerial dance and do exercise shit. So that people really know that I’m one of the good ones, the one that they should save.

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Black Powerful

Award-wining viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a new collection of sharply rendered, breathtaking reflections form more than one hundred Black voices.Black Powerful explores the monumental reliance, joy, and triumph of Black People everywhere. Claudia Alick is featured in the collection.

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Vallejo Fund

We’re so excited to be invited by De La Projects to facilitate with 3 Palms Group and the Hewlett Foundation to design and envision distribution

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Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium Panel

Hear firsthand about the needs and challenges faced by neurodivergent and disabled artists working in the Pacific Northwest. Learn from their varied experiences and discover ways we can all bring greater accessibility, inclusion and representation to our creative community at large. Moderated by Claudia Alick with panelists.

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