consultation & education for culture change, anti-racism, and social justice

A New Direction

We are excited about the new opportunities for building culture and community we will be engaging with in 2023!

To learn more about how we at Co:Culture Collective have been listening, learning, and co-conspiring in order to embody the new foundations we seek to lay and grow from, please take a look at this video, and sign up below for our newsletter!

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    “In facilitation, Co: Culture Collective harnesses tremendous wisdom to bring people into awareness and lead them to creatively consider possibilities that break barriers. The deeper I get into this kind of work, the more in awe I am of their hope in and love for people.”

    —Kim Radersma, Ph.D., M.A., O.C.T.
    Workplace Equity Officer & Human Resource Services, Waterloo Region District School Board

    Co: Culture Collective specializes in organizations seeking to improve the way they work with people.

    We work with companies, nonprofits, and faith-based groups to strengthen skills, shift structures, and nurture capacity for personal and collective transformation.

     

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    Meet Bernadette

    Founder, Principal Consultant, Lead Cultural Strategist

    Bernadette Arthur (she/her) is an experienced trainer, facilitator, and consultant in the areas of anti-racism, Biblical reconciliation and asset-based community development. She specializes in designing and facilitating learning events that offer brave space to listen, interrogate, unpack, explore, create, and heal: as local as Hamilton, Ontario, and as far as Johannesburg, South Africa. Bernadette is an Afro-Caribbean woman whose family migrated to Turtle Island from Trinidad and Tobago in the early 70s, and a leader instrumental in co-organizing emerging movements in those engaged in racial justice, healing, and reconciliation work. She brings her rich lived experience, academic background in psychology, decades of working in the human services sector, and commitment to love and liberation into every space that she enters.

     

    Areas of Expertise

    Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression

    Diversity, Inclusion & Equity

    Biblical Racial Justice

    Unconscious Bias

    Deconstruction & Decolonization

    Social Justice

     

    Services

    Organizational Culture Audits & Surveys

    Program & Curriculum Development

    Multi-session Workshops & Trainings

    Executive & Leadership Empowerment

    Keynotes & Guest Lectures


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    Some of our clients and collaborators include:

    “It was an eye-opening experience to learn more about consequences pertaining to colonialism, the Church, and our current cultural climate. I’m thankful for the grace and patience exhibited in teaching and interaction.”

    —Community Worker, The Dale Ministries

    Meet the Team

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      Abreheit Gebretsadik (she/her)

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      Ilana Dixon (she/her)

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