OSC University J.E.D.I. in Training: Next Level J.E.D.I.

One Step Closer University presents...

Becoming A Next Level J.E.D.I

Featuring Shine Diversity

J.E.D.I. stands for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and this training will help you move beyond the basics and expand your understanding of what these words mean and how they impact and affect your workplace. The training will provide vocabulary, new tools and best practices for making JEDI a part of your work and personal life, and specific ideas for implementing JEDI in the natural products industry.

This training will specifically focus on understanding each element of JEDI and how you can make a difference. Together we will learn new vocabulary and tools for furthering liberation and ending oppression. We will explore intersectionality, consent culture, and best practices for creating a welcoming, respectful, communicative workplace. We will dive into topics including gender, race, and identity. This training will be engaging and uplifting and will take you to the next level of this life time commitment work.

About the Presenters

Shine Diversity creates clear pathways to justice, equity, inclusion, and diversity through assessments, trainings, consulting, coaching, and policy writing. We serve to address the problem of lack of inclusion and diversity which includes loss of innovation, safety, staff

retention, and multiplicity of ideas. Shine Diversity gives companies the resources and knowledge needed to benefit from hiring and welcoming people of all races, genders, and backgrounds. We expertly guide people through learning new vocabulary, practices, and skills vastly improving work culture. We do full scale assessments of companies and create long term strategy ensuring that the whole company becomes anti-racist, gender inclusive, genuinely welcoming of diverse ideas, and leaders in the movement for justice. We believe this is life-time work and encourage companies to commit to a comprehensive holistic approach and partnership. We know this work cannot be done in one training – it takes patience, time, trust, team building, and willingness to shift and change. We aim to increase human potential, inspire liberation, and give everyone the ability to shine.

Shine Diversity is greatly appreciative of OSC JEDI initiative and is excited to be a solutions partner.

Contact Shine Diversity at www.shinediversity.com or ariel@shinediversity.com

Ariel Vegosen is the founder, CEO, and lead trainer of Shine Diversity. Ariel is a professional inclusivity and diversity trainer, workshop facilitator, writer, educator, consultant, coach, and public speaker. For over 20 years Ariel has facilitated trainings, workshops, and retreats for organizations, corporations, nonprofits, schools, communities, and faith based groups. This work has taken Ariel all over the US and internationally. Ariel has a long history in the natural products industry and has worked in the Fair Trade, anti-GMO, hemp, and organic movement. Ariel is an ordained Hebrew Priestess, ritualist, and the founder of Gender Illumination a non-profit focused on healing, leadership, and mentorship in the trans and non-binary community. Ariel's work focuses on intersectionality, commitment to working from an anti-oppression lens, and creating communities across diverse cultural backgrounds. Ariel loves to play with pronouns, bring joy into all aspects of life, and creatively spark conversations and connections.

Shalonda Ingram is an innovator who embodies this mantra; Strategize. Design. Produce. Shalonda is committed to elevating consciousness and empowering the collective liberation. Shalonda has deployed worldwide for the transformation of people, principles, practices, and systems. Shalonda works with social justice, spiritual and corporate organizations to explore network effect and elevate opportunities for resource sharing while scaling. Shalonda is committed to the creation of whole, connected communities that thrive by building structures of clarity, capacity enhancement and trust. Shalonda has consulted for a range of clients; from the grassroots artists to the enterprise tops. Assisting with product development, experience design and special events. Intersecting creativity and enterprise; Shalonda has served on many boards, commissions and advisory councils.