Áse Power Consult amplifies your organization's growth potential by modeling sustainable community constructs that evolve individual, group and organizational goals. I provide organizations with highly effective platforms that allow for conversations on race, gender, class and religion to be implemented in constructive and sustainable ways.
Current Offerings
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Practice Workshops
Participants of 2018 Áse Power Consult Equity Workshop at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.
I provide professional development workshops that equips management, front of line staff, and community stakeholders with the tools necessary to build a socially responsible inclusive practice. Workshop participants come together to work towards a common good through a collaborative learning process. I honor where participants are in their stage of development and provide them with resources in the form of applicable inclusive practice protocols that enables them to work towards achieving a more inclusive practice in their personal and professional lives.
Workshop includes but not limited to:
Series of anti-bias workshops specifically tailored to serve client inclusive practice goals. Workshops focuses on equipping management and staff with an introduction to anti-bias protocols, explores the impact of systemic oppression on targeted communities and examines how to effectively incorporate authentic equitable systems that fosters a socially aware workforce.
Individualized coaching sessions geared towards enhancing inclusive protocol knowledge and skills needed to effectively support a diverse community.
Participants will learn how to develop a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Affinity Cohort. The cohort will hold the organization accountable for implementing and further developing Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Practice Protocols. The cohort will learn how to develop an inclusion statement based on the company’s mission and create internal protocols inspired by the inclusion statement that foster a more equitable practice.
Multicultural Adult and Youth Programming
Nancy Moricette of Áse Power Consult demonstrating Destructive Theatre techniques to young participants.
I design and facilitate programs geared towards providing participants with a space where identity, culture and voice can be explored in an arts inspired environment. Visual arts and story sharing are used as a platform to provide participants with tools to access and express their emotions in positive ways with the clear intention of significantly evolving their individual and world view.
Workshop includes but not limited to:
Cultural Identity Exploration
Connecting beyond Race, Gender Identity, Physical Ability, and Class.
Engaging Aggressors / Perceived Bullies through Restorative Circle Practice.
Past programs include…
Life Is Precious Program
Participants of The Life is Precious program sharing shrines they constructed to honor individual wisdom.
Through a partnership with El Museo del Barrio and the Life is Precious program participants overcame challenging circumstances to create communal projects. The Life is Precious is a program dedicated to preventing suicide in young Latina girls. Amongst teenagers Latina girls have the highest rates of suicide attempts in the United States. As an artist and consultant I created a series of projects that fostered a measurable shift in personal identity, community connection and self worth.
Hudson Guild/El MUSEo partnership
Participants of the Hudson Guild Adult Education program constructed drums demonstrating their cultural heritage on the surface, in a Áse Power Consulting workshop.
Hudson Guild Adult Education Program
Hudson Guilds offers diverse programs to people living in the Chelsea, New York neighborhood. I partnered with the Hudson Guild and El Museo del Barrio to construct a curriculum that allowed participants to explore the significance of their cultural heritage. Participants, mostly new immigrants, struggled with how to identify in a new American landscape. Participating in the series provided residents with the opportunity to voice their frustrations through projects I created to specifically address their concerns over the course of a year. The Hudson Guild experienced increased investment and attendance as a result of the project series.
Long-Term Equitable Practice Community Programming
Racial Equity and Audience Town Hall Series developed for The Williams Project in Seattle, Washington.
Development of multiple project based workshops geared towards fostering authentic partnerships with diverse communities. Development of strategic planning frameworks that evolve cultural practices within for profit and non-profit cultural environments.
Workshop includes but not limited to:
Introduction to Community Asset Mapping Practices: Leveraging community partnership strengths to combat perceived community weaknesses.
Introduction to cultural sensitivity protocols which enable homogenous organizations to foster inclusive practices that motivates connections with diverse community stakeholders.
Organizational change workshops that incorporates strategic planning methodologies which examines leadership, employee and community partnership development.