The Inclusive Staffroom: addressing racial inclusion to support better staff wellbeing

Addressing racial inclusion to support better staff wellbeing

Are you a global majority educator who would like to feel better connected and supported by others who share your experiences?

The racially motivated riots in the UK over the summer have had an impact for many working in education, and especially for global majority staff. We know from our research that opportunities to come together and support one another are valuable, especially at challenging times like these.

The Inclusive Staffroom offers you the opportunity get that support.
Join our facilitated community groups of global majority educators where you can discuss what is important to you, how to support each other and get help for your mental health and wellbeing.

For those that need individual support, The Inclusive Staffroom also offers professional supervision.

Community groups

Each community group will meet three times over the academic year, each a maximum of 90 minutes.

You will be guided by an expert facilitator throughout the sessions.

They will provide you with support along the way and create a safe space for reflection and discussion. Whilst there is no formal structure for the groups, a set of agreed principles will be agreed at the start of the first group to ensure that everybody feels included and safe.

Professional supervision

In addition to community spaces, we understand that some staff may want to access one-to-one reflective spaces. We are able to offer a limited number of places for global majority staff to access professional supervision.

You’ll meet for six hourly online sessions with a fully qualified supervisor who understands the education sector.

Supervision has a professional focus and is totally confidential. It is time dedicated to your role in education, and will help you to improve your wellbeing.

Please note, we have limited spaces available and will select on a first come, first served basis.

Be part of meaningful change

Earlier this year, we published ‘Mental Health and Wellbeing of Ethnic Minority Teachers’. Global majority[1] teachers called for much wider equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) training to create more inclusive cultures and support everyone’s wellbeing, and that this should happen proactively. 

With thanks to funding from the Wesleyan Foundation we are now able to help to create communities for the global majority education workforce to support their wellbeing. 

[1] The term Global Majority includes those people who identify as Black, African, Asian, Brown, Arab and mixed heritage, are indigenous to the global south, and/or have been racialised as ‘ethnic minorities’. Globally, these groups currently represent approximately eighty-five percent of the world’s population, making them the Global Majority now (Campbell-Stephens, 2021)