Description

This is a must attend event. This vibrant seminar will help you attain a better understanding and value for who you are. You will walk away from this workshop, realizing how to break down barriers to create an atmosphere to thrive, with a better sense of how "belonging" affects people at work. Living and working in our society requires that each of us become increasingly aware of the challenge of cultural change. Speaker, Parfait Bassale, will teach us how to create and sustain a vibrant learning and working environment and expand our perception of diverse groups. 

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SPEAKER, PARFAIT BASSALE, Executive Diversity Officer, South Puget Sound Community College

Parfait is a gifted communicator, out of the box thinker that specializes in personal and organizational transformation, healing and restoration. He is passionate about building relational bridges and creating cultures and systems that foster belonging and equitable outcomes. As a native of Benin Republic, he faced the challenges related to immigration early in life (language barriers, ethnocentrism, othering..). In his own words:
"I have been the man standing at the door for the bulk of my life and I did not have words for it. Whether because I did not force my way into spaces or was not invited in. The hurt and insight of being on the fringes of spaces has fueled the passion to help people build relational bridges.  

His interest in conflict resolution and prevention led him down the path of empathy and interpersonal neurobiology. Parfait earned a Masters of Arts from Portland State University in Conflict Resolution. Additionally, Parfait has years of experience leading and consulting with both private and public sectors, on matters of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. He is currently the director of Diversity Equity and inclusion at South Puget Sound Community College and the co-chair of the Institution wide DEI committee. He brings over 20 years of field experience, coupled with his passion and lived story to every speaking engagement and coaching session. Parfait shares his critical message of empathy through the Story and Song Centered Pedagogy; a framework that leverages the introspective virtues of music and the power of stories to shape and alter meaning.

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