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.