There are lots of ways to get your team together for AANHPI Heritage Month!
HELM Life works with experts to bring their knowledge & research to the corporate setting - in a fun and engaging way!
The Intersection of AI and Culture and Belonging
Keeping AI Accountable: Shaping the Future
Join us to explore the intersection of technology, ethics, and policy in an
interactive learning event as we work together to research, learn and discuss how artificial
intelligence is redefining our world and spotlighting AAPI leaders who are shaping AI policies that
impact our daily lives and global futures.
We also host History-based and Pop Culture-based Interactive Events!
Get together for an hour of team building, puzzling and fun as you work together to solve the clues and learn about some interesting topics in AANHPI History or Pop Culture!
How Interactive Events Work
Our events fit into a 1-hour calendar block and are fully hosted by our team.
Welcome & Intro
A HELM Life emcee and team of facilitators welcome participants to the Zoom call. After a brief intro to set the stage, we get everyone excited for the experience ahead.
Breakout Room Fun
Teams head to breakout rooms of 6-10 people to play through the interactive game. Each group is supported by their HELM Life Host as they research, solve puzzles, and discuss topics together.
Recap & Goodbyes
Towards the end of the hour, everyone heads back to the main room for a fun recap of what we learned, final thoughts, and goodbyes until next time!
Celebrate AANHPI Heritage Month with a Professional Development Program
ERG-led Professional Development
The world, workplaces, jobs and industries will all see big changes with the
introduction of broadly-applicable AI Tools - including Co-Pilot, Gemini and ChatGPT - and the integration
of AI into many new products and services that we use. Getting familiar with these new technologies will
be crucial to the next stage of career growth. Let's work together on ERG-led professional development
to grow our expertise wth AI Tools in the workplace.
Play an Organization-wide MicroLearning Challenge
Launch the challenge by sharing a link - participants find the hidden words, learn new things and test their new knowledge against their teammates on the Leaderboard!
What's an Interactive Learning Event?
They're part research, part puzzle, part learning and part fun!
HELM Life's MicroLearning Programming is easy to set up.
We've cracked the code to memorable, interesting and fun DEI Learning. Here's how to set it up:
Do the quick set up
Once you request an event, HELM Life Life provides a link to the game page and all of the content that you'll need to advertise the game. It even comes with a countdown clock until the event starts!
Sample Landing Page
Create some hype
Use HELM Life's pre-written share assets, images and blurbs to tell people about the event. These assets double as heritage month Internal Communications posts for Slack, Sharepoint and newsletters.
Sample Comms Assets
Play the Game!
MicroLearnings only take 10 minutes to play, include interesting and accessible content. The word search teaches new infomation and the quiz asks about what they just learned. There's also a Top Scores page!
Sample Top ScoresHow do you run a MicroLearning Challenge? Good question!
Great question - here's what it looks like! Teams run MicroLearning Challenges for a day, a week or a month and often give prizes to the winners at the end!
Thinking about booking a speaker? We work with some amazing people!
We work with amazing speakers! Academics, historians, entrepreneurs and people with amazing personal journeys! Our emcee hosts the call for a 30-minute talk + a 15 minute Q&A that you won't forget!
Jessica Pasia
We are excited to welcome Jessica Pasia in a talk titled "Now It's Cool: Appreciation vs Appropriation of AANHPI Culture." Drawing on cultural insight and current trends across food, fashion, music, and social media, Jessica unpacks the differences between appreciation, appropriation, and commodification, and explores how cultural exchange can happen with awareness, credit, and respect.
Dr. Lily Anne Welty Tamai
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Lily Anne Welty Tamai in a talk titled "The History of Asian Americans in the US." An instructor in UCLA's Asian American Studies department and former Curator of History at the Japanese American National Museum, Dr. Tamai draws on her research as a Fulbright and Ford Foundation Fellow to explore the rich and complex history of Asian Americans and the communities that have shaped the nation.
Here's why teams choose HELM Life programming:
We work with Amazing Hosts!
Although HELM Life can host up to 200 participants per event - all of the fun learning is done in breakout rooms of 6-8. Each group is hosted by one of our talented facilitators, to support teams in their learning and to make sure that everyone has a great time!
Easy to Organize
All HELM Life Learning Events fit within a 1-hour calendar block. They're led by our event emcees and are easy to plan, well-researched and fun to do - organizers simply need to get teams to their link, and we'll take over from there! We'll also set you up with: share images, a blurb to share, a calendar invite and a registration page to share with your teams!
Donation Included
All HELM Life Learning Events include a donation to an organization working to address the systemic inequalities we'll be learning about and working towards change supporting the community.
Partners
We're proud to partner with experts and amplify their voices
Dr. Robert Diaz
Dr. Robert Diaz is Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) at University of Toronto. His research focuses on the experiences of sexual minorities in Asia, with particular attention to diasporic communities in the transpacific, Southeast Asia, and the Philippines. Collectively, his work broadly identifies the shared barriers that many sexual, gender, and racial minorities face globally. Dr. Diaz's scholarship has been published in top-ranked peer reviewed journals and foundational edited volumes. His book, A Confetti of Ordinary Dreams: Queer Filipinos and Reparative Acts, is under contract with Duke University Press. Diaz has secured competitive research grants within and beyond Canada, from Harvard University, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, SSHRC, and the Connaught Foundation.
Stop AAPI Hate
In response to the alarming escalation in xenophobia and
bigotry resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian Pacific Planning & Policy
Council, Chinese for Affirmative Action, and the Asian American Studies Department
of San Francisco State University launched the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center to
track and respond to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination,
shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the
United States.
HELM Life is pround to support their work with a 10% donation from each AANHPI
Heritage Month Event that we facilitate.
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