Wondering what to do to celebrate Transgender Awareness Week at your place of business? Here are some ideas to get you started!

When you’re ready to dig into and understand diverse cultures at a deeper level, consider immersing yourself in books, podcasts, and movies made by and for people who are not like you.

What is “whiteness”? How was it created? Why was it created? Who does it serve… and who does it harm? Here are some videos, articles, and podcasts that answer this question.

Trauma-informed care can combat unconscious bias in medical systems by increasing empathy with patients, improving rates of providers believing patients'’ experiences of pain, and driving better patient outcomes. Here are sample questions and statements of affirmation that will help you connect with your patients.

When doing anti-racism work, it is common to experience “flight or fight” stress reactions. Here are some concrete tools for regaining control over your limbic system when you’ve experienced this type of reaction.

People of all racial identities have experienced generational trauma around race, and Resmaa Menakem has much to teach us about ancestral healing.

@biffandi is a high-engagement influencer brand, with a reach of nearly 100k across its social channels. Here’s just one example of a successful partnership between @biffandi and Betterhelp, in which we created a video that garnered over 200,000 views for the online therapy brand!

Collaborate Consulting regularly provides insight to researchers and academics studying LGBTQ parenting, transgender fertility, and more!

Collaborate Consulting has worked with several media outlets to tell smart LGBTQ family-building stories with grace and integrity. Here’s one example!

Often, if we find ourselves surrounded by like-minded people, we may not have many opportunities to interrupt racist attitudes or actions. It’s not like racism isn’t happening; we simply don’t see it because it’s not as overt. If you’re interested in honing your lens so you can pick up on more subtle forms of racism, this is a great tool to get you started!

This model is used to map your own white anti-racist identity development AND to assess where on the scale other white people are, so you can better understand how to reach them and move them along on their process towards anti-racism.

Sometimes, kids say things that we perceive to be rooted in racist ideas or beliefs. But simply telling a child that what they’ve said is racist may not be the best way of building a lifelong commitment to anti-racism. What should you say instead? Here’s a tool to help!

I’ve been receiving lots of DM’s from parents who want to raise socially conscious kids but aren’t sure where to start. I thought I would film a little video of Hailey and I chatting about her opinion on parents sharing tough subjects with their kids.

Land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. There is a reason we don’t all know the incredible depth of organizing that the Panthers did. The movement was successfully stymied after a gruesome nation-wide campaign to discredit and destroy it…

Here is an example of a media partnership between Collaborate Consulting and TLC, for the show Lost in Transition.

There are times when you, as an ally, feel called to step in and intervene when you see an incident of racial bias. Here is a practical, evidence-based five-step tool for interrupting bias when you see it.

What a whirlwind these past few weeks have been. In our house, we’re hustling to find “the new normal” for all of us, which includes transitioning the big kids to homeschooling. Hailey especially has been missing the connection to other students and the intellectual stimulation of the classroom, which is why we’ve signed her up for iD Tech’s virtual tech camp!

But recently, I was speaking with an acupuncturist-in-training and learned that “yin” and “yang” actually refer to the light side and the dark side of a mountain—and my mind exploded. With this new analogy came a new way of thinking about something that’s been marketed as binary for so long. If we saw gender not as two opposing forces, but rather as two sides of the same mountain, how might that change the journey of self we’re all on? 

Before we became parents we were living in a super swanky apartment in Hollywood, California. We’d put on our trendy outfits, go out on cute dates followed by late-night drinks and dancing, only to return home and sleep until 1pm the next day. We’d awake looking young and refreshed. Having kids brought all of this to a grinding, abrupt halt.