In this episode Helene talks to Bianca Jones - Award Winning Mental Health & Anti-Racism Training Provider, MHFA England Associate and Founder & Managing Director of EDP Training, Paul Brand- Facilitator and Management Consultant, Director at Risk Solutions and IAF England and Wales board member and Cat Duncan-Rees- Facilitator and founder of Curators of Change and also an IAF England and Wales board member.

She starts by asking Bianca to talk a bit about the work she does and what led her to develop EDP and the Race Ahead training

She asks Cat and Paul about what led the IAF England and Wales Leadership Team to ask Bianca to deliver this training course online in October and about their key takeaways.

Cat and Paul talk about the RA4F special thread at the IAF England and Wales conference Facilitate 2025 this year and where the idea came from?

Bianca shares some examples of specific impact or changes she's seen in a facilitator’s approach after attending Race Ahead

Bianca gives some more details her session at the conference and the training course she is offering the day before.

All the guests then talk about why a focus around racial equality at the conference is important and why active race awareness matters in facilitation and what anti-racism might look like for facilitators.

The guests also talk about their hopes for longer term initiatives in teh facilitation communicty around anti-racism.

To book onto the RA4F course on 24th April 2025:

To book onto the Facilitate 2025 conference

To contact Bianca - bianca@edptraining.co.uk

To contact Cat - cat@curatorsofchange.com

To contact Paul - paul.brand@risksol.co.uk

To contact Helee: Helene@jewellfacilitation.com

To contact the conference team: conference@iaf-englandwales.org