TRAINING
What we do
We design and deliver learning experiences that empower organisations to build healthy and positive workplace cultures that celebrate diversity.
Our programs help create environments where people feel connected, valued and supported; unlocking the potential for teams to thrive, adapt to challenges, and drive meaningful impact.
Discover how our training programs can help your organisation create an inclusive, welcoming, and adaptable workplace ready to embrace diverse perspectives and future challenges.
Our approach
The Equality Project is committed to ensuring our facilitators are accredited and engaged in ongoing professional development, so our programs reflect the latest thinking and best practice.
We integrate methodologies inspired by the Kaospilot approach to learning and experience design. Additionally, we draw on Liberating Structures, Human-Centred Design, Design Thinking and innovative facilitation techniques to create experiential and transformative experiences.
Our pedagogical approach is informed by the following principles:
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We prioritise hands-on activities over theory, encouraging participants to actively create, experiment, and build meaningful connections. Curiosity fuels the learning process, with knowledge introduced as it becomes relevant and needed.
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Peer-to-peer learning is a collaborative approach where participants share knowledge, exchange ideas, and solve problems together. Group work fosters this dynamic by encouraging the testing of ideas and exploration of solutions in a supportive environment, leading to deeper understanding.
Our sessions aim to promote the exchange of insights, enhance interpersonal skills, and build a strong sense of community—making the learning experience more interactive, engaging and impactful.
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Constructive feedback and open dialogue are essential for growth. We focus on creating spaces where participants can share insights, ask questions, and reflect on their experiences, promoting learning and mutual understanding.
Co-creation is also a key approach in our more intensive learning programs, particularly in our leadership offerings, to ensure learners stay at the centre of the experience.
Feedback informs how we improve and update our programs, ensuring they stay relevant, accessible and impactful.
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Deeper learning happens when we take the time to reflect.
Participants are guided through structured moments of introspection to make sense of their experience, exploring their values, actions and aspirations.
This reflective practice helps integrate learning into everyday life, ensuring long-term impact and personal growth.
Social enterprise
Our training programs operate on a social enterprise model that reinvests resources into initiatives supporting minority communities.
By partnering with us, you not only invest in your organisation's growth but also contribute to our scholarship programs.
Organisations that invest in our training directly fund these scholarships, opening doors for individuals who need opportunities the most. It’s learning with purpose, designed to create a ripple effect of positive impact.
SCHEDULE A CHAT WITH US 💁🏾
Explore our Learning Lab — a collection of training programs, learning experiences and facilitated sessions designed to build positive workplace cultures, develop essential skills, drive meaningful change and help shape the future of inclusive thriving organisations.
Unconscious Bias Training
How do hidden biases shape our decisions and interactions?
In this experiential workshop, you’ll uncover the concept of unconscious bias, explore how it influences our behaviours and workplace dynamics, and discover practical science-backed strategies to identify and address these biases through interactive activities and discussions.
Up to 25 participants in-person, one-day
Modified half-day session available, capped at 15 participants
A new online format is available, please inquire
Working with Minority Communities
What would it take for every person in your organisation to feel they truly belong?
Join us in this introductory workshop designed to raise awareness and build understanding of how to work more effectively with minority communities.
Up to 25 participants in-person, 2.5 hours
8-15 participants online, 2 hours
Having Tough Conversations
What if you could turn conflict into connection and approach difficult conversations with clarity and purpose?
In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to approach difficult conversations with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Through guided practice, reflection, and actionable strategies, you’ll leave ready to engage in meaningful conversations that lead to real progress. Perfect for leaders, changemakers and anyone seeking to communicate with impact.
Up to 25 participants in-person, one-day
A modified version for small groups online, half-day
Adaptive Leadership
How do you lead effectively when the challenges keep shifting and the solutions aren’t clear?
Our Adaptive Leadership Program is designed for leaders who want to navigate complex challenges and drive meaningful change within their organisations.
Through a 3-day intensive, gain practical tools, insights, and connections to lead adaptively and create impactful solutions in dynamic environments.
15 to 25 participants, in-person 3-day intensive
3-day intensive including onboarding and a follow up session
Solution Sprint
Feeling stuck on a challenge or project?
Let us facilitate a session to help your team unlock solutions and drive progress with fresh, expert perspectives.
Our Solution Sprint, also called a Design Sprint, is a fast-paced, collaborative workshop designed to help teams generate innovative solutions to pressing problems. Tackle real-world problems together and leave with clear, practical strategies ready to implement.
1-10 teams or 7-80 participants, in-person workshop
Session duration varies from 2 ½ hours to 1 day
Emotional Culture Workshop
How we feel shapes how we work. Culture begins with what we feel, not just what we do.
The Emotional Culture Workshop helps teams move beyond abstract values and make culture real. Using The Emotional Culture Deck, this hands-on session starts with emotions — how people feel when they do their best work — and builds outwards to tangible actions. Walk away with a shared emotional culture map, deeper team connection, and practical strategies to create a thriving workplace.
3-21 participants, in-person
Minimum 4-hour session or 3x shorter sessions over time
Workshop Design & Facilitation
Tired of workshops that go nowhere?
We craft the kind that helps teams make real progress.
This is a done-for-you workshop experience, designed and facilitated by us, so your team can focus on what matters.
We work with corporate, government and community teams to run sessions that are purposeful, energising and practical. In person or online, we handle the design, delivery and facilitation — so you don’t have to.
Ready to make your next workshop count?
Working with the Rainbow Community
Curious about how to better engage with and support rainbow communities?
Working with the Rainbow Community is a workshop developed for organisations seeking to initiate or enhance their understanding of rainbow communities in order to create a more welcoming and supportive environment.
Up to 25 participants in-person, 3 hours
8-15 participants online, 2 ½ hours
How do you choose the right workshop for your needs?
Whether you’re addressing specific challenges or looking to build a positive workplace culture, here are some examples of when to book these offerings and how they can work together:
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“We want to engage effectively with people from minority backgrounds, but we’re worried about getting it wrong.”
Recommended workshop: Working with Minority Communities
Build the confidence and understanding to engage respectfully and meaningfully with multicultural and cultural and linguistically diverse communities. This session explores practical ways to create culturally safe and inclusive environments - both within your workplace and in the communities you serve.
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“We want to build awareness and shift mindsets around bias.”
Recommended workshop: Unconscious Bias
Help your team uncover hidden assumptions and explore practical ways to create a more inclusive culture. This workshop builds empathy, challenges blind spots, and sparks lasting behaviour change.
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Struggling to have conversations that matter - without it turning into conflict or shutdown?
Engaging in meaningful dialogue can be challenging, especially when dealing with tricky topics that can lead to unproductive debates or workplace tensions that undermine progress.
For example, council staff trying to navigate diversity and inclusion activities with resistant community leaders, schools navigating difficult conversations with worried parents, or advocates and changemakers trying to partner with unsupportive stakeholders to make progress.
The Solution: Book Having Tough Conversations. This workshop is perfect for changemakers, leaders, and anyone seeking to move hearts and minds through connection and understanding. Pair it with our Unconscious Bias workshop for a transformative program that builds skills to foster collaboration, community, and belonging.
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Feeling stuck with your Employee Resource Group (ERG) and unsure how to move forward?
Many ERGs struggle with defining their purpose, setting clear goals, or turning great ideas into actionable plans.
The Solution: Use the Solution Sprint to come up with with a 3-year plan. The Solution Sprint helps your team move from ideas to action by guiding you through the process of creating a clear, actionable 3-year plan. Define your goals, priorities, and strategies to drive meaningful impact and set your ERG up for long-term success.
Alternatively, tap into our Workshop Design and Facilitation offering to tailor a workshop that meets your team where they are. Whether you need to reset, reconnect, or re-focus, we’ll design and facilitate a session that brings people together, surfaces what matters, and creates space for clear, purposeful progress.
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Do you want your team to feel more connected, engaged, and aligned?
The Solution: Choose the Emotional Culture Workshop. This hands-on session gives your team the space to explore how emotions show up at work—and how they impact performance, collaboration, and culture. You’ll walk away with a shared emotional culture map and practical ways to turn team values into daily habits.
This workshop can be paired with the Solution Sprint or go deeper with our Workshop Design & Facilitation service where we start from scratch to design a creative session that results in a team that is more connected, aligned and engaged.
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“We’re navigating constant change and need our leaders to adapt faster.”
Recommended workshop: Adaptive Leadership Program
Equip your leaders with the mindset and tools to thrive in complexity. This intensive 3-5 day program helps leaders diagnose challenges, experiment with new approaches, and lead in uncertainty.
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