MOSAIC Centre for Diversity
The MOSAIC Centre for Diversity is a leader in the provision of truly transformational inclusion training. We have experience offering these services in-person, on-site, and virtually to public and private sector organizations in British Columbia and throughout Canada. We help your business or organization create inclusive and equitable spaces.
The Diversity Dividend
“Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.”
Effective diversity and inclusion strategies help organizations advance their goals.
In fact, more diverse organizations:
are more likely to outperform their peers
are twice as likely to meet or exceed their financial targets
are 70% more likely to capture new markets than those that neglect to actively recruit and support under-represented groups
promote innovation, generating fresh insights, new ideas and creative solutions
increase employee satisfaction, engagement, fostering loyalty, retention, and productivity
attract the best and brightest talent, overcome skill gaps, and draw on the full talents of their people
Gain the MOSAIC Advantage
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Help us unlock the potential of your workforce!
45 years of empowering newcomers to Vancouver and British Columbia
The experience providing services that support your diverse workforce.
38 unique language, employment, and settlement services offered from convenient locations across the Lower Mainland
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Every individual and every workplace is unique. That’s why our curriculum is never the same from workshop to workshop.
Uniquely adapted content using a comprehensive needs assessment filled in by participants.
Adress topics and activity types that respond directly to the needs and challenges of each of our participants.
We meet you where you are on your Diversity Journey!
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We know your busy schedule may leave little time, so let us adapt our training to meet your needs. We can conduct workshops in a way that suits your schedule:
Full, intensive three-hour format
Shorter, condensed two-hour formats
Informative and accessible webinars
A series of one-hour ‘Lunch and Learns’
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Our skilled and experienced facilitation team draws vast experience from across MOSAIC’s many programs.
From settlement workers to employment counselors, our team represents the beautiful diversity that MOSAIC possesses.
All are certified as Intercultural Facilitators by Norquest College.
Our facilitators bring the skills, experience, empathy and compassion to provide a meaningful and transformational education experience for your staff.
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We support our clients throughout their Diversity journey. This support can take many forms.
Often hot-button topics are identified during the workshops that require further discussion and customized workshops to work through.
At other times, individual employees might need extra support to work through challenges specific to their own workplace situation.
Our commitment to our clients is that we support them wherever their path to diversity takes them.
Where are you on your Diversity Journey?
Embracing Diversity is not a switch that you can turn on or off. It is rather a journey along a windy path that takes time, patience and a lot of effort. We are here to support you wherever you are on that path!
First Steps Support - The basics, tools and strategies to create inclusive spaces
Mid-journey Support - If your team has put in the effort to educate yourself on diversity and inclusion topics our specialized workshops will give you the tools to approach specific challenges
Full Journey Support - If your team needs support to initiate and carry through a full lifecycle diversity and inclusion program we can help.
First Steps Support
Introduction to Inclusive Leadership
Combines diversity and inclusion training with intercultural management skills. Participants learn the core concepts of diversity and inclusion while applying them to team building using practical, real world scenarios. Participants will leave this workshop with all of the knowledge, tools and strategies to go beyond diversity and build a truly inclusive team.
Introduction to Inclusive Fluency
A foundational workshop where participants without prior intercultural training explore core concepts. Participants learn to better navigate intercultural situations in diverse workplaces by cultivating awareness of their own and others’ cultural backgrounds and using strategies for dealing respectfully with intercultural situations.
Mid-Journey Support
Building an Inclusive Team
Following from the concepts explored in Introduction to Includive Leadership, this “part two” of our Inclusive Leadership Program looks into how to build your team from an anti-bias and anti-racism perspective. We will explore not only culture but specific policies, procedures, and strategies that can promote inclusive workplaces and truly realize the diversity dividend.
Diversity for the ______ Field
Every workplace is unique, every industry and field manifests different challenges specific to that concept. We have adapted workshops for the Settlement, Healthcare, and Educational world. Our adaptive needs assessment based curriculum allow us to modify our activities, scenarios and concepts taught to meet the unique challenges that each field demonstrates.
Inclusive Hiring
For teams that possess a base knowledge of inclusion concepts. This workshops focuses on more advanced topics, such as unconscious bias, to ensure that your recruitment team has the skills and awareness to recruit, train and retain a diverse and productive workforce. With the skills gained in this workshop you will truly have the ability to realize the diversity dividend.
Inclusive Workplace
Also for teams that possess a base knowledge this workshop series focuses on how to apply advanced D&I concepts such as microaggressions and systemic racism to address everyday workplace situations. We delve into conflict resolution, professional behavior and communication from a D&I perspective. We will give your staff the tools to build an inclusive culture together.
Full Journey Support
Diversity Check-Up
Do you need to get the pulse of how inclusive and equitable your organization is? Our diversity check-up offers you a mix of workshops and webinars for your team and leadership that will give you unique insight into how your team feels and what the challenges they face. We will use this qualitative and quantitative data to jointly create an inclusion and diversity action plan.
Diversity Audit
Our skilled facilitators will guide your organization through a comprehensive audit of your culture, practices and procedures. Based upon the results of this audit we craft target workshops, webinars, and policy round-tables designed to build internal capacity. We will guide you through structural, cultural and strategic changes that will build a truly inclusive organization.
Thank you to our wonderful clients!
Email: inclusion@mosaicbc.org
In person or online: We offer services both in-person and online.
Acknowledgement
MOSAIC operates on traditional and unceded Coast Salish Territories, the ancestral lands of the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), sc̓əwaθən məsteyəx (Tsawwassen), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwitwetlam), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), qʼʷa:n̓ƛʼən̓ (Kwantlen), SEMYOME (Semiahmoo) and Matsqui nations.