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Allyship in the Workplace
A one-day workshop on practicing allyship in the workplace
Overview
A one-day course that teaches employees what allyship means and how to practice it at work. Sessions cover privilege, intersectionality, equity, microaggressions, unconscious bias, and the difference between authentic and performative allyship, closing with a personal action plan. The pack gives a trainer fully scripted notes, timed activities, six handouts and online-delivery adaptations, ready to run as supplied or to edit and rebrand.
Format. One day (about six hours including breaks); the trainer notes suggest splitting it into two-hour lessons for online delivery. Designed for classroom delivery and adaptable to live online sessions.
Who it is for. Open-level course for employees who have never come across allyship as well as those who know a little and want to go further.
What delegates take away
- Define allyship and the concepts that underpin it: privilege, intersectionality, equity and oppression.
- Identify actions an ally can take at interpersonal, internalized, institutional and systemic levels.
- Respond to microaggressions as a bystander using practical intervention techniques.
- Recognize unconscious bias and five common types of bias.
- Distinguish authentic allyship from performative allyship and savior behavior.
- Set up a personal action plan with SMART goals to develop allyship practice.
Course outline
Session objectives, ground rules for a safe space, and a speed-networking icebreaker on workplace support.
Defines allyship, marginalized groups, privilege, intersectionality, and equality versus equity, then maps the seven-stage allyship journey and the benefits of allyship at work.
Works through the four levels of oppression and the actions an ally can take at each, from bystander interventions on microaggressions to unconscious bias and tackling institutional and systemic discrimination.
Contrasts authentic with performative allyship, covers savior behavior and other behaviors to avoid, and sets out how to respond when an ally makes a mistake.
Participants audit their current allyship practice and draft SMART goals using the action-plan handout, followed by a recap of the learning objectives.
What is in the kit
Slide deck
51 editable PowerPoint slides with speaker notes, covering the full one-day session including breaks and section headers
Trainer notes
Fully scripted session notes keyed to each slide, with activity instructions, timings, Q&A prompts and online-delivery adaptations for every exercise
MIZAN Edition field guide
Updated research with sources, two GCC-context case studies, three new activities, an AI-era section and a 30-day transfer plan
Participant workbook
Editable workbook for delegates to take notes and complete activities
Handouts
Six activity handouts: oppression-level scenarios, microaggression scenarios, performative-allyship scenarios, bias matching cards, a find-the-triangles perception exercise and a personal allyship action plan
Certificates
Four certificate templates: attendance with digital or printable signature, plus a CPD completion template and worked example
Course administration forms
Feedback form and sign-in sheet
Delivery guides
Online teaching guide and pre-course preparation guide
Two formats throughout
Every document ships in both editable Word/PowerPoint and PDF versions, with a licence permitting unlimited delivery, editing and rebranding
Editions
The license in one sentence
Buy once, deliver the course as often as you like to as many delegates as you like, edit anything, add your own branding — you only may not resell or redistribute the materials themselves. Every download is stamped with your name, tier and order number. Full license terms
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