Courageous Conversations about Race

Learning, reflection and action

Course overview

Duration: Flexible packages tailored to your organisation’s needs
Format: In-person or online
Cost: Pricing details are available upon inquiry

Courageous Conversations about Race (CCaR) creates structured, facilitated spaces where people can explore race, racism, identity, power, inequality and lived experience together. The programme supports people to build understanding, develop confidence and engage in meaningful conversations that leads to positive change.

People are encouraged to approach conversations with curiosity, openness and accountability, recognising that learning about race is an ongoing process.


Who is this course for?

This programme is ideal for:

  • Leadership teams
  • HR and People teams
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion teams
  • Public sector organisations
  • NHS organisations
  • Voluntary and community sector organisations
  • Corporate organisations seeking to strengthen inclusion, belonging and anti-racist practice

What you’ll learn

Organisations can choose from themed packages including:

  • Learn: Foundations of race, racism and anti-racism.
  • Unpack: Understanding systems, history, colonialism and structural racism.
  • Explore: Power, privilege and how inequity is maintained.
  • Reflect: Exploring lived experience, trauma, identity and the human impact of racism
  • Act: Moving from awareness to practical anti-racist action and organisational change.

Why choose Big Life?

At Big Life, we understand that creating inclusive organisations requires more than policies and statements.

Meaningful change happens when people have the opportunity to learn, reflect, challenge assumptions, share experiences and develop practical ways of working together.

Our approach combines:

  • Anti-racist practice
  • Trauma-informed approaches
  • Community and lived experience
  • Organisational development expertise
  • Safe, facilitated dialogue
  • Practical action and reflection

We create spaces where difficult conversations can happen constructively, respectfully and with purpose.


Ready to find out more?

Get in touch with our training team at: training@thebiglifegroup.com

Click here to download our Organisational Development and Inclusion training prospectus.