Our Services
Our services are designed to equip collaborators with education to raise their consciousness and sharpen their skills; tools to pursue transformation within themselves and their institutions; and strategies to build sustainable systems of care.
Our approach is equitable, accessible, and responsive to the distinct needs of our collaborators. We enter collaborations with the courage to challenge convention; the creativity to imagine and implement innovative approaches; and a commitment to engaging with care.
Practical education and training to raise your consciousness and equip you with tools to uproot oppressive policies & practices.
Workshops & Training
Organizational Consulting
Consulting and concrete tools to strengthen your impact, develop equitable systems and cultivate a culture of care.
Customized, trauma and healing-informed support to navigate workplace challenges, embody your values and sharpen your skills.
Care-Centered Coaching
Comprehensive support to transition out of your current employment circumstances and into aligned opportunities.
Career Transition Support
Our Services
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Organizational Consulting
We provide education, tools and technical assistance institutions invested in developing more equitable and effective systems rooted in care. We offer fractional leadership and consulting to purpose-driven organizations of all structures and sizes, including but not limited to grassroots coalitions, community enterprises, non-profit organizations, legal institutions, schools and universities.
Equity & Culture Audits
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Let’s interrogate to what extent your organizational impact aligns with your stated vision and values through a comprehensive culture assessment. We’ll engage the colleagues, clients and communities with whom you collaborate; evaluate your policies and practices; and equip you with tools to identify and address areas inequities & overall areas for improvement.
Equity & Trauma Informed Conflict Navigation
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Conflict is inevitable, and oftentimes, it’s also inequitable! We support organizations in navigating conflict in ways that are principled, equitable, and accountable. In addition to organizational crisis and conflict support, we provide mediation and facilitation services designed to promote mutual understanding and pave a path forward. Our approach is informed by a power analysis and understanding of how oppressive systems influence interpersonal conflict.
Policy, Process & Program Development
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Whether you’re seeking to develop or revamp your employee handbook & policies; recruiting & hiring processes; evaluation systems; or equity initiatives - our collaboration will help you establish more equitable, accessible and effective practices.
Training & Workshops
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We offer accessible skills trainings and workshops customized to your distinct culture and learning goals. Whether you’re looking to promote wellness in the workplace; deepen knowledge of legal systems; strengthen client and community engagement; sharpen leadership skills; or generally raise your organization’s cultural consciousness, our curriculum provides purposeful and practical instruction to achieve these goals.
Strategic Planning
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We’ll guide you through the process of crafting and/or refining your vision and values, while aligning each with your impact through a strategic plan. This collaboration includes a comprehensive culture assessment; review of your current policies and practices; facilitated strategy sessions, and a strategic roadmap. This collaboration will support your institution in identifying and achieving specific goals that advance your organization’s mission.
Transformational Coaching
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We provide 1:1 and group coaching designed to equip participants with specific skills and support based on identified challenges and priorities. Whether the objective is to raise one’s consciousness and unlearn oppressive conditioning, develop position-specific skills, or enhance communication, leadership, or conflict navigation skills, we provide equitable and accessible instruction informed by the distinct needs of participants. While our coaching curriculum may cover some of the same content featured in our workshops, this intimate collaboration allows us to provide more individual attention and customized support.
ORG CONSULTING REVIEW
As the leader of an LGBTQ+ nonprofit organization, I had the opportunity to work with Shannon Cumberbatch in several different capacities. I attended and participated in several anti-oppression workshops that she facilitated, which were masterfully designed and impactfully delivered. Shannon brings a wealth of lived and professional experiences to her trainings, and provides both an important analytical framework and very practical recommendations - which was extremely helpful to me. I also worked with Shannon as a consultant, where she provided both legal and HR expertise to advise me on several complex and sensitive situations - which was invaluable to me. I would highly recommend working with her - you and your organization will be better for it.
“Shannon is one of the most brilliant people I've had the opportunity to work with, bringing so many different lenses and skillsets.”
Care-Centered Coaching
Our customized coaching curriculum can help you:
𖥧 Navigate conflict in ways that are principled, equitable and prioritize accountability and care
𖥧 Identify and embody your values while addressing voids in consciousness and care
𖥧 Develop specific skills to strengthen your impact
𖥧 Unlearn hierarchical approaches and develop liberatory leadership practices
𖥧 Resist and recover from workplace harm
We offer 1:1 and small group coaching outside of institutions to support individuals in harnessing their power, achieving their goals and healing from workplace harm. Our care-centered coaching services are designed to help individuals raise their consciousness; identify and embody their values; develop skills and strategies; access aligned opportunities; reconnect with their inherent power; and resist and recover from workplace harm. Our services help fill the voids in access to training, mentorship and care-centered support.
EXPLORE COMMUNITY COACHING WITH SANCTUARY!
Sanctuary is a sacred support space and conscious community for sufferers and survivors of workplace harm. In addition to strategies to resist for resistance, you’ll experience wellness rituals, curated care packages and restorative retreats that help suffers reset, reroot and recover from harm.
Career Transition Support
Whether you’re presently unemployed or simply pursuing a new project or position, we’ll provide comprehensive support through your transition. From the application process and exit strategy to onboarding in a new environment, this journey can be anxiety-inducing, exhausting, and alienating. Our collaboration can help carry that weight and support you in attaining aligned opportunities while centering your humanity and healing beyond paid labor.
In addition to constructive coaching , we equip participants with toolkits containing customized strategies to achieve their specific goals, and holistic care practices to sustain themselves through a stressful process. Our approach is intentionally accessible, trauma-informed, and rooted in care.
Transition Coaching
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We’ll help you process work-related trauma, anxieties, and goals prompting your transition. Together we’ll identify your strengths, opportunities for improvement and strategies to confront challenges. This process will help you identify aligned opportunities and expand your possibilities. We can also coach you through communicating effectively with your current or future workplace throughout the process.
Customized Application Support
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It can be challenging to find the capacity and language to customize yet another application in an exhausting job search, especially while balancing other responsibilities. It’s even more taxing for those who are depleted and/or discouraged; are experiencing burnout and/or active harm; and whose neuro-processing simply doesn’t lend to this inorganic application process. We’ll help you revise or construct a compelling resume, and build authentic applications from scratch.
Interview Toolkit
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You’ll receive a workbook with guidance to eloquently elaborate on your application in your own voice and strengthen your overall interview skills.
Your workbook will contain:
a non-exhaustive list of anticipated interview questions specific to the desired position
guidance to workshop responses specific to your experience
affirmations and care strategies to sustain you through the process
This collaboration will equip you to:
anticipate and answer challenging interview questions
emphasize your most impressive experiences & qualifications, and
identify and translate transferable skills to fill perceived voids in qualifications
Interview Coaching
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Whether you’re applying to a new position, grant, or program, this service will support you in strengthening your overall interview skills, and preparing for your next opportunity. We’ll study the institution, your experience, and equip you to eloquently elaborate on your application in your own voice while emphasizing your most impressive experience and attributes.
Onboarding Coaching
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Starting a new opportunity can be anxiety inducing, especially where there may be gaps in experience and expectations, or lack of sufficient onboarding support within the organization. It can also be challenging to enter a new environment when your identity, culture, experiences and/or neuroprocessing does not reflect the dominant norm. From negotiating offers to setting and meeting expectations, this collaboration is designed to provide trauma-informed, care-centered coaching that’s conscious of power dynamics, committed to disability justice and invested in advancing equity.
TRANSITION SUPPORT REVIEW
“Shannon helped me gain clarity and confidence, preparing me for my career transition and an important interview that led to a new position. I can’t recommend her services enough.”
Shannon was insightful, empathetic, and highly skilled at tailoring her support to meet my needs. When the time came, she thoroughly researched the institution I applied to and the job description, helping me anticipate interview questions, identify hiring priorities, and confidently address challenging topics. Her advice helped me highlight transferable skills from my lived and professional experiences. She also helped me navigate how to express my values during the interview and evaluate how well the institution aligned with them. What sets Shannon apart is her comprehensive approach. Beyond practical interview preparation, she helped me reflect on my career journey and explore opportunities that aligned with my goals. Her support seamlessly combined actionable advice with meaningful self-reflection, leaving me feeling both prepared and empowered. For anyone navigating a career transition or seeking direction in their professional journey, Shannon’s expertise and personalized guidance are truly invaluable.
- Christina Joseph
Workshops & Training
Our public workshops provide participants with essential education and practical tools. Our anti-oppression education curriculum is designed to unearth the origins and impact of oppressive policies, practices, and ideologies, and equip attendees with tools to uproot them within themselves and their institutions while sowing seeds for systems of care. We also facilitate restorative spaces featuring mindful movement and meditation to mitigate the impact of burnout. While we offer custom curriculum, we welcome you to explore some of our most popular workshops below.
Register for upcoming workshops, access past workshops, or inquire about custom curricula based on your specific learning goals.
Promoting Wellness in the Workplace
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We’ll discuss some of the ways ableism and inequity are inherent to racial capitalism, ingrained in workplace performance expectations, and erodes the health and wellness of all, especially those most directly impacted by the work. We identify institutional and individual practices we can implement to improve wellness in the workplace instead of accelerate burnout while managing high volume triage work. We’ll close with mindful movement and meditation practices to help sustain us through our workdays.
Challenging Convention to Promote Equity Series
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This series of workshops unearths the oppressive roots of common conventions organizations inherit under racial capitalism and equips participants with equitable alternatives. This series provides tools to transform practices and processes related to leadership, recruiting & hiring, supervision, conflict and office culture.
Leading Towards Liberation Series
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Together we release ideas of leadership rooted in hierarchy, individualism, competition, surveillance, and control to develop more conscious and caring practices that can lead towards our collective liberation.
Confronting Workplace Harm
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We help workers develop principled approaches to disrupting harm they experience and observe in the workplace. Likewise, we help leadership and administrators develop principled approaches to addressing workplace harm, while navigating relevant law.
Unlearning the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
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This series urges individuals and institutions to unlearn conditioning and end our complicity in the paternalism, saviorism, and exploitation ingrained in the non-profit industrial complex, while supporting instead of sanitizing and co-opt grassroots movements.
Engaging Community with Cultural Consciousness & Care
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We help direct service providers divest from paternalistic perspectives and harmful practices that perpetuate the same inequities and oppressive conditions they claim to challenge.
Unearthing the Oppressive Roots of the American Legal System
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This curriculum unearths the role of the law in creating, codifying and perpetuating oppressive ideologies and institutions. We explore how interlocking family, immigration, criminal and civil legal systems borne out of these rotten roots reinforce their oppressive origins and harm people ensnared in them.
Dialogue on Culturally Conscious Direct Representation
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Attorneys and advocates should be learning directly from the people we represent. In this dialogue, Mr. Carridice and I will discuss the nuances of race, class, power, privilege and injustice that arose from the moment of his violent arrest, through his three year journey to acquittal at trial. As Mr. Carridice shares his experience navigating inequitable power dynamics with judges, attorneys and supervisors in the criminal system, I will offer a legal and systemic analysis that contextualizes his experiences. Together, we'll offer insights and strategies to effectively advocate against oppressive harm while providing culturally conscious direct representation.
WORKSHOP & TRAINING REVIEW
“Perhaps most impressively, Shannon narrowly tailored the presentation to account for our work in the civil rights space, and used examples and fact patterns that were directly relevant to our day-to-day work.”
Our firm had a fantastic experience working with Shannon. We are a small civil rights firm, and Shannon facilitated a half-day workshop that focused on Uprooting White Supremacy in the Workplace and Culturally Conscious Direct Representation. It was a two-part presentation that addressed interactions both in the office (including with colleagues, the court, etc.) and with our clients. The sessions were interactive and engaging - Shannon was able to share her tremendous expertise while simultaneously facilitating robust and respectful group discussion. I highly recommend Shannon for any organization, and I know our firm will look to her again and again! - Alanna Kaufman
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Frequently Asked Questions
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We offer sliding scale rates to make our services more equitably accessible to those with fewer financial resources. Where one lands on the sliding scale is informed by their financial status, and the scope and scale of services sought. Submit an inquiry here to get a specific quote for our collab!
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Well, uproot.ed doesn’t offer independent DEI services per se. Our commitment to equity is an enduring ethic that influences every aspect of our work and is seamlessly integrated into each of our offerings. When executed well, all training, coaching, and consulting work should embrace diversity, advance equity and include historically excluded communities.
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YES! This just means that we’re more likely to be aligned in our collaboration. We’ll maintain that momentum while strengthening your efforts and impact together, ensuring your commitment to equity is evident in every aspect of your work! It’s also important to interrogate to what extent your intentions and perceptions of progress align with your actual impact, and identify opportunities to deepen your practice. Let’s assess and advance your efforts together!
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We encourage institutions to ensure that equity is an inherent part of everything they do, rather than an isolated DEI initiative. It’s even more urgent and imperative that we advance equity and challenge oppression when related rights and education is under attack. Through legal insights and liberatory praxis, we help organizations conduct principled risk assessments to make courageous decisions in alignment with their values. Together we anticipate potential liabilities and develop creative strategies to mitigate exposure while resisting regression.
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