Building Environments to Welcome Diversity

“Welcoming diversity means that
every person counts and every issue counts.”

What is NCBI?

The National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI), founded in 1984 in Washington, D.C., is a non-profit leadership training organization that works to eliminate prejudice and conflict in communities throughout the world.

NCBI provides an effective diversity training program that teaches effective listening skills, conflict resolution skills, the ability to manage dialogue across group lines and a rationale for creating a welcoming classroom that becomes everyone’s responsibility.

NECC is a Campus Affiliate of NCBI. NECC team members have been trained as facilitators and are available to come into your classroom or work with staff in departments on campus to lead an interactive session on welcoming diversity.

What can I expect in an NCBI session?

Workshops are conducted for staff, faculty and students. The workshops allow participants to gain self awareness, stretch beyond their comfort zone, and develop new understanding of different groups. The workshops are interactive, experiential, and high energy. Participants are both teachers and learners.

In our workshops, we:

• Celebrate differences and similarities
• Identify misinformation about other groups
• Identify and heal from internalized oppression
• Claim pride in our own identity
• Gain empowerment by learning ways to challenge bigoted comments and actions
• Learn to become allies to groups to which we do not belong

Additional Information:

For information on NCBI in the classroom, click here to download the brochure (in PDF). To view the informational brochure (in PDF) on NCBI, click here.

For any additional information, contact Judith Kamber, Dean of Professional Development, at (978) 556-3955 or at jkamber@necc.mass.edu.

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