How to Design for Belonging and Inclusion in Your Organization

‘belonging‘ is a basic human need. But often when building workplaces and organizations, we forget to consider the crucial role that belonging should play. An organizational ecosystem where everyone can belong and thrive is critical to the success of any business. A sense of belonging plays an important role in fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce, team or organization.

This two-part 180-minute live e-certification series outlines how leaders from all walks of life can use tangible design tools to cultivate a sense of belonging. Belonging can be expressed through physical spaces that promote calm, roles that create a sense of responsibility, events that make people feel included, and more. Anyone trying to build diversity, equity and inclusion in groups of all shapes and sizes can use this program to find a way to make everyone feel included. In this series of programs you will learn the basics of belonging, seeing and creating. This live webinar workshop is developed, moderated and presented by Susie Wise, an Instructor at Stanford d.school, the Hasso Plattner Institute for Design at Stanford University. She is a leading designer with experience in education, technology and social affairs. dr Wise coaches executives in the areas of equity design and innovation. This program is for leaders who are ready to take the first steps or advance their existing work to reduce difference and build greater belonging!

Each session will be practical and interactive. Over two courses, you’ll prepare to examine belonging to your context, figure out how best to conduct that inquiry yourself, reflect on what you’ve noticed, and use what you’ve learned to create new designs. You will also have opportunities for self-reflection about past experiences of belonging – how they felt and how they were formed.

Part I: Exploring Belonging
Date: Wednesday 19 October 2022
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm PT / 2:00pm-3:30pm ET [90-minute session]
Belonging is a basic human need and yet it is so Not often in the focus of organizational design and development. We can change that. In Part I of this series we will:

• Build in your experiences to understand where belonging lives in you and your organization
• Introduce techniques you can use to find the place to work on belonging to your organization
• Discover concrete moments Affiliation that can be shaped

Part II: Designing for belonging and inclusion
Date: Wednesday 26 October 2022
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm PT / 2:00pm-3:30pm ET [90-minute session]
Once you’ve discovered the moments of belonging you want to explore, you can open the broad toolkit of design levers to generate new experiences to try. In Part II of this series we will:

• Discover a range of design levers
• practice generating new ideas to test
• draft a concrete new experience to try at your workplace or team

Designed by Experts: This SSIR Live! The two-part webinar workshop will be developed, moderated and presented by Susie Wise, Instructor at Stanford d.school. She is a leading designer with experience in education, technology and social affairs. She coaches executives on stock design and innovation practices. In addition to teaching at the d.school, she coaches with the Mira Fellowship. She previously founded and ran the K12 Lab at d.school and co-created Liberatory Design. Some course materials relate to Wise’s new book, Design for Belonging: How to build inclusion and collaboration in your communities.

Highly interactive: Each session will be practical and interactive. Over two courses, you’ll prepare to examine belonging to your context, figure out how best to conduct that inquiry yourself, reflect on what you’ve noticed, and use what you’ve learned to create new designs. You will also have opportunities for self-reflection about past experiences of belonging – how they felt and how they were formed.

Extensive Learning: This program is created in collaboration with Susie Wise, an associate professor at Stanford d.school, the Hasso Plattner Institute for Design at Stanford University. It lasts 180 minutes and is divided into two 90-minute sessions:
Part I: Exploring Belonging
Part II: Designing for belonging and inclusion

Practical examples: Discover real-world, ground-level examples specific to the landscape and social sector challenges.

Who should join? This course is designed for managers and individual employees in a variety of organizations. This workshop will be of great benefit to leaders and practitioners from nonprofits, foundations, governments, corporations and other social sector organizations. This series of programs is designed for social innovation leaders who strive to create positive social impact but may struggle to build truly inclusive teams or processes.

Participation e-Certificate: Show your commitment to building your skills. After this participation SSIR Live! Two-part webinar workshop, your participation entitles you to receive a downloadable e-certificate from Stanford Social Innovation Review and Stanford d.school, the Hasso Plattner Institute for Design at Stanford University. You are eligible to receive the Attendance E-Certificate once you have successfully completed Parts I and II of this program.

Subtitles available: Live transcription is available for this program. To enable closed captioning during the LIVE broadcast, click the up arrow next to the CC icon and select the Captions option. To turn off subtitles, click the up arrow next to the CC icon and select the Hide subtitles option.

On Demand Version: Register and access the live event recording 24 hours after the webinar ends and at any time for the next 12 months.

Price for this extended two-part webinar workshop: $169. This price includes access to the live interactive webinar, unlimited access to the recorded webinar video and downloadable slides for 12 months.

Webinar Refund Policy

Recordings of all webinars and all associated presentation materials are accessible asynchronously after the live broadcast for 12 months from the date of broadcast. As a default policy SSIR does not offer refunds for webinar registrations. All refund requests should be submitted in writing to [email protected] and are checked on a case-by-case basis. If a refund is warranted, it will be processed after the webinar.

If you have any questions about this program, write to us [email protected].