Diversity and inclusion can be difficult to handle.

Due to the need to:

• Expand the talent pool and bridge skill gaps
• Respond to increasingly diverse communities and gain support from diverse stakeholders
• Foster innovation, creativity and diverse thinking
• Mitigate legal and reputation costs
• Increase staff satisfaction

It can be held in English or in French.

Yes, we can offer the training online.

Groups of up to 20 participants to guarantee optimal engagement.

The training contains 4 modules, and it is strongly recommended not to do more than 1 module a day. Each module has a duration of 4 hours.

The approximate distribution of the contents is as follows: Presentation of the concepts: 15 min / Artistic activity: 15 min / Dialogues: 15 min / Journaling and pause: 15 min

Yes, your team can benefit from other IDÉ training activities. Please get in touch for details.

Yes, all materials are included.

Anywhere you want! We can offer the training online or travel to your preferred location. If you need us to travel more than 15 km away from Montreal or to special venues, we may apply extra costs.

The best tool to integrate concepts and tracking changes in personal postures is called The IDÉ Journal, which is part of the equipment provided with the training. With it, participants will not only follow the activities, but also track their personal impressions and insights about diversity and inclusion. Months or years after the training, it will be an interesting portrait of the participants’ thought process and evolution for themselves.

Furthermore, PAAL commits to follow up with a diagnosis, evaluation and consulting sessions. It can be organized around six months to a year after the training.

• Since 2016, PAAL reached more than 10,000 people by promoting knowledge of many cultures in addition to developing intercultural skills amongst the population, mainly in the Côte-des-Neiges, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Saint-Michel, Villeray, and Parc-Extension boroughs.
• Specifically with IDÉ activities, in september 2021, PAAL took part in The Peace Days (https://thepeacedays.com/) with “La couleur du verre” in-person, for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. With rigorous sanitary measures, participants exchanged their opinions and were surprised to find many common views on everyday problems, such as social exclusion. They were able to come up with ideas to improve their approach for the benefit of their communities. This was a free activity open to the general public.
• In may 2021, PAAL organized the virtual activity “La couleur du verre”  at La Corporation de Développement Communautaire de Côte-des-Neiges (https://www.conseilcdn.qc.ca/membres/) during which 6 different local community organizations found a space to openly talk about their concerns on everyday challenges when working with other organizations.
• Finally, from 2020, founding members of PAAL were invited to be part of the DEI Group of the ERSM school (https://www.ersm.org/) and collaborated with teachers and staff to effectively implement changes to the curriculum and school environment.

• A recent study from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) surveyed employees at over 1,700 businesses in eight countries to look at the impact of diversity on business success and employee satisfaction. The study found that businesses with more diversity generated 19% more revenue from innovation than other businesses. It tends to improve employees’ performance and the companies’ retention rate is higher.
  *Source: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2018/how-diverse-leadership-teams-boost-innovation
• Montreal is a multi-ethnic city where more than 150 cultures live together and where 25% of the population are people of immigrant origins. To deal with the continued labor shortage, (170,000 positions to fill), the Quebec government plans to receive 70,000 immigrants in 2022. That means more immigrants in Quebec businesses. If not properly managed, this situation can lead to cultural anxiety. In such a scenario, managing multicultural teams and working with international clients can be problematic at every level of organizations. Employees from here and abroad need to develop cross-cultural skills to ensure good communication and performance in their multicultural team. 
• To meet this need and to support workspaces willing to diversify their teams, promote employee retention and increase inclusion in their work environment, we are launching the IDÉ training, a creative program to effectively include everyone in the workplace. It is designed for the four types of learners (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading/writing), so that the information presented can be optimally integrated by everybody.

The four core learning styles are visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and reading and writing.

• Visual
  Visual learners are those who learn best by observing things. Visual learners retain information better when it’s graphically depicted to them with charts, diagrams, pictures, etc. They have a good sense of direction and usually like to draw and doodle.
• Auditory
  Auditory learners integrate information better by listening. Sound and music appeal to these learners who typically have a good sense of rhythm. They work well in group settings where verbal collaboration is encouraged and may enjoy reading aloud to themselves.
• Reading & Writing
  These learners prefer using words, both in speech and writing. They express their thoughts easily and usually love to read and write. Verbal learners tend to have a vast vocabulary and excel in activities that involve debating. These learners are note-takers and perform strongly when they can reference written text.
• Kinesthetic
  Physically active, kinesthetic learners are hands-on people who thrive when all of their senses are engaged during training. They learn best when they can do rather than only see or hear.

At PAAL, the term “inter-cultural mediation”  means raising awareness of cultural diversity through the sharing of cultural expressions such as art, storytelling and crafts, to reconcile tensions or differences between individuals from different cultures. While classical intercultural mediation uses speech to bring people together, intercultural mediation as proposed by PAAL rather uses art as a unifying tool. These projects respond to the various Canadian government demands to increase the level of cultural democracy and improve living together.