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Health Equity: Harnessing Holistic & Culturally Competent Care for Mental Health & Wellbeing

In a world where health disparities persist, advancing health equity requires requires global collaboration and actionable solutions that support individuals and transform systems. Our Health Equity Series is designed to ...equip women with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to advocate for their health and navigate healthcare systems that can often feel inaccessible, dismissive, and riddled with systemic biases. Each session in this series tackles a specific healthcare issue while offering practical tools to create tangible outcomes.

In our first session, we’re exploring the topic of Harnessing Holistic and Culturally Competent Care for Mental Health and Wellbeing in collaboration with Nivishe Foundation in Kenya. This session will feature global perspectives and highlight culturally grounded approaches from across the world. Together, we’ll dive into key topics, including:

•The Importance of Culturally Competent Care: Understand how integrating cultural awareness and sensitivity into mental health practices enhances accessibility and fosters trust within diverse communities.

•Health Promotion vs. Disease Prevention: Explore why mental health care must go beyond treating symptoms to promote holistic well-being, reframing mental health as a continuum of wellness rather than merely the absence of disease.

•Decolonizing Mental Health Care: Unpack the limitations of Western approaches that often pathologize mental health, exploring how they overlook cultural contexts and indigenous practices. We will highlight examples of community-driven and indigenous practices that have effectively reshaped mental health care models, offering inspiration for equitable care approaches worldwide.

Join us in reimagining mental health care to be inclusive, culturally resonant, and centered on fostering holistic well-being.[+] Show More

Health Equity: Harnessing Holistic & Culturally Competent Care for Mental Health & Wellbeing

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Toxic Workplaces, Leadership and Mental Health

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Decolonising Feminism and Gender Equality

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Navigating the Shifting Tides—What’s Next?

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Is DEI dead? Rationale For and Against

Our Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace series is a global platform dedicated to fostering open conversations and learning around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in workplaces and communities worldwide. ...Since 2020, these monthly sessions have brought together professionals, leaders, and advocates from across the globe to explore best practices, share personal experiences, and discuss actionable strategies for creating more inclusive environments. These free, virtual sessions serve as a space for collective growth, critical reflection, and meaningful dialogue on DEI’s evolving role in society.

We are beginning 2025 with a topic that is more relevant than ever: Is DEI Dead? Rationale For and Against

As organizations across industries grapple with changing societal expectations, economic pressures, and political polarization, the relevance and future of DEI initiatives are under scrutiny on a global scale. In this climate of increasing pushback against DEI initiatives, from budget cuts to critiques of their effectiveness, the question looms large: is DEI as a framework for change still relevant? Critics argue that DEI has become a checkbox exercise, stripped of its transformative potential, while advocates contend that it’s more critical than ever as organizations navigate systemic inequities and social tensions.

This month, we confront the hard truths and polarizing opinions around DEI:

Is DEI failing, or are we failing DEI?
How do organizations strike a balance between accountability and impact?
What does the future of workplace equity look like in the face of resistance and fatigue?

This session is designed to provoke thought, spark dialogue, and inspire action. We’ll explore:

The arguments for and against DEI’s relevance and effectiveness.

How external forces—economic pressures, political polarization, and social movements—are reshaping DEI efforts.

Innovative approaches to creating authentic, systemic change beyond traditional DEI frameworks.

DEI has been a focal point in workplaces over the past decade, but the rise of terms like “DEI fatigue,” political backlash, and doubts about measurable impact have challenged its trajectory. Join us as we tackle these critical issues head-on, offering space for constructive debate and shared learning.

This session is for professionals, leaders, and changemakers who arere navigating the complexities of DEI, whether as advocates or skeptics.

Our speakers: Chisom Udeze and Dr. Poornima Luthra[+] Show More

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Disability Inclusion

Lunch & Learn: Driving Sustainability and Inclusion through Inner Development Goals

Climate Justice: Why Intersectionality Matters

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Mental Health

Inclusive by Design: Bridging the gap between theory and practice

In recent years, many organizations have introduced mandatory Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging trainings and various internal and external initiatives to address the identified challenges. But the potential of driving ...true inclusion and belonging goes far beyond that.

When we create or amend a service, product, digital tool, or anything else – it can be inclusive by design. It is possible to start creating in a way that ensures inclusion and accessibility for ALL people.

But what does that mean in reality?

Join Diversify and Designit to learn about inclusive design and how to translate your theoretical understanding of DEIB principles into practical action, which can drive meaningful change and foster a sense of belonging for all individuals. We will share our thoughts and tangible examples of how to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Speakers:
- Siri Yran | Lead Industrial Designer, Designit
Siri Yran is Lead Industrial Designer and will present a snap shot of how our team worked together with Ruter and Sporveien to creating new trams for the City of Oslo. During the past 7 years Designit took part in designing an inclusive and inviting tram experience.

- Dr. Pankhuri Sanjay Jain | Senior UX Designer, Designit
Dr. Pankhuri Sanjay Jain is a Senior UX Designer. She will be sharing her team’s experience on establishing an inclusively led insights rig for our energy supplier clients, Tensio & Linea. This project with them is a long ongoing engagement, and we hope to continue this collaboration with an inclusive and accessibility focused design mindset.

- Linn Cowie-Sailer | Senior Service Designer, Designit
Linn Cowie-Sailer is a senior service designer at Designit, with a background in politics and economics. She will share the Stimulab project Ny i Nordland where they worked to make it easier for internationals to relocate to Nordland, and how they strived to anchor and promote DEI throughout with a series of small interventions.

- Mimi Fuentes | Service Designer, Designit
Mimi Fuentes is a Service Designer with a background in Architecture. She is one of our studio Inclusion Champions. She will give us a brief introduction to Design practices and their relation to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

- Chisom Udeze | DEIB Strategist & Founder of Diversify and HerSpace

Chisom is an Economist, a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Strategist, and a 3 times founder of impact driven companies. She has over 14 years of experience working with organizations like the European Commission, The United Nations, ExxonMobil and The Economist Group. Chisom is analytical and a data enthusiast. She is passionate about interrogating the cross-sectoral relationship between society’s inhabitants, resources, production, technology, distribution and output. She efficiently and effectively unlocks complex systems, interprets data, forecasts socio-economic trends and conducts research.

Having lived and worked in 7 countries across 3 continents, she is highly adaptable to different circumstances and people, and thrives in uncertain environments.

As the founder of Diversify and Diversify Consult, Chisom and her team work with companies, institutions, governments and civil society to develop sustainable DEIB strategies and embed measurable diversity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace and society. In addition, in 2022, Diversify launched the Diversify Nordics Summit, the largest conference in the Nordics that gathers cross-sectoral stakeholders to amplify DEIB in the Nordics and beyond.

In 2020, she founded HerSpace, a diverse and inclusive co-creation community for all genders, with particular focus on women and non-binary people. In 2022, HerSpace launched HerTech, Women in Tech incubator, for women-led companies, with a focus on the inclusion of diverse founders.

Chisom is a thought-leader in DEIB and a passionate advocate for mental health and wellness. She writes often on DEIB and justice related topics, some of her work is published on Forbes.

- Moderator: Iva Ogrizovic | Program Director, Diversify
Iva holds a Master’s in Philosophy and Comparative Literature and in her home country, Croatia, she mostly worked as a freelancer in culture event management (film and music festivals) and in production (theater and TV). For the past three years of living in Norway she has been working for a non profit organisation, Diversify, as a Program Director. Here she co-designs and manages programs for skilled immigrants addressing the difficulties they face when trying to secure relevant employment. The programs center on entrepreneurship, mentorship and professional development. Her work also involves supporting Diversify’s DEIB consultancy and training. Iva is passionate about professional and personal development and empowering people to realize and use their potential to make positive changes in their lives.

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Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Inclusive Communication

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Disability Inclusion

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