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E, D and I and Health Inequalities Series Session 2: Power and Privilege working across difference
About the workshops
This is the second in a series of five workshops designed to develop your individual knowledge base ‘self as an instrument’ or agent of transformational change, understanding difference as intersectional through your lifelines exercise and to put this reflexive learning into the context of system power and privilege, allyship in order to develop systemic and action-orientated interventions and outcomes related to the social determinants of health and their impact on structural inequalities.
The series will consist of 5 workshops, each with a different focus, which can be attended independently or as a full programme, which is highly encouraged allowing participants to develop a reflexive approach to individual and Board level decision-making.
The full workshop series includes:
Session 1: EDI and your role as a CEO – Introduction – 27th November 2025
Session2: Power and Privilege working across difference – 11th December 2025 (this session)
Session 3: Allyship – developing inclusive allyship in practice – 22nd January 2026
Objectives for Workshops 1 – 5
The objectives of the workshops are to understand:
- – Your role as an ‘instrument of change’
- – Your intersectional relationship to others, including your health populations
- – How to develop skills of allyship
- – Giving and Receiving Feedback through the lens of inclusion
- – Understanding trauma and psychological safety through the lens of inclusion
- – The relationship between the social determinants of health and structural inequality
- – How to develop an approach to the intelligent use of data to inform decision-making
Outcomes from Workshops 1 – 5
At the end of the series you will have:
- – Developed confidence in understanding and using EDI terminology, data and lived experience intelligently
- – Explored power and privilege in organisational life
- – Developed skills and approaches acting as an ally to excluded groups
- – Explored the emotional experience of giving and receiving feedback
- – Develop an understanding of trauma and psychological safety in relation to marginalised groups
- – Made the connection between individual and systemic issues of inequality and population health
- – Considered the use of resources and the waste of resources in relation to discrimination
- – Developed a reflexive approach to individual and Board level decision-making
Who is the workshop for?
This workshop, and the series, is for the South East Aspiring Chief Executive Talent Pool and Board members in the South-East region.
Book your Place:
Please book your place via the green RSVP ‘Going’ button below. Places are available on a first come, first serve basis. Although we will be able to see your name and email address upon submission, once extrapolated the demographic and protected characteristics data will be anonymised. We appreciate your support in providing this information, which will help us to ensure our leadership development interventions are widely accessible and inclusive.
The workshop will be delivered virtually. Links to join the workshop will be emailed to those who have booked, along with full joining instructions, one to two weeks before the workshop date.
Our Commitment:
We are committed to making our training as accessible as possible (please see our accessibility page), we are aware that there is more that we can be doing. Please do contact us if there are any reasonable adjustments that we can make to support you to be able to attend this programme by emailing us at [email protected]
About the Facilitator – Dr Sandie Dunne
Dr Sandie Dunne has been advising senior leadership teams and individual leaders on how to reflect on and improve their ways of working for more than 20 years.
An experienced and accredited coach, Sandie supports leaders to become more mindful in their approach to whole organisational development. Her work includes a focus on developing organisational structure and culture, with the aim of achieving improved outcomes for staff and communities.
Sandie brings deep knowledge and experience of facilitating group dynamics and systems thinking, based on psychodynamic approaches, and a finely tuned equality, diversity and inclusion lens. Her work has global reach – she has worked with clients on every continent, creating work which has global impact, from climate policy influencing and activism to women’s rights.
