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[quote=Anonymous]OP

If everything looks good and diverse to you and you think bringing in this facilitator is a waste and can cause harm, as the lead, why don't you conduct a confidential survey to ask specific question around how valuable people feel about their contributions, opinions, work, and general socialization in your workplace?  Ask questions about respect, how people feel respected by peers, external clients, leadership, and for leaders (since you indicated you also have a very diverse cross representation at all levels) those not in leadership that they lead or in other divisions of your organization.

If your organization is really as great as you think along the lines of DEIA, you will get a good number of respondents, they will want to tell you how they feel valued and respected.

Low response rate?  This is telling you that visually diverse group you see with no problems can't even get it together to  complete maybe 8-10 questions on their perceptions of their value and respect given to them.

Or, you may be surprised about the answers you get of those who respond.

You don't need to ask gender, race, orientation, or disability status.  People are telling you about their value and respect and if they feel they have a voice or avenue to address perceived conflicts with receiving or giving either.

DEIA in the workplace is about practices and cultures that allow for respect and how well they value their staff. That's my opinion on this.

Leave some open text for comments to any of the questions.

These are the things you want to center your employee sessions around.  It's not about making someone feel worse than the way they've ignored or made others feel.  It's about the positive reinforcement of behaviors that revolve around value, respect, and working together to communicate and get your organizations work accomplished.

Or you can just continue to revel in your discomfort and how this could be the worst session possible.  And it will be, so you never have to do it again and people can continue to stay in their comfort zone and not be challenged to act and interact differently that is honest, direct, respectful, and kind.[/quote]

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