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!
Learn some History
Spend an hour learning about the history and poems of Angel Island,
Asian American activitists, pre-colonial Hawai'i and Asian American communities in the US with
discussions about the Perpetual Stranger stereotype and the Model Minority Myth.
See change through Pop Culture
There are a lot of ways to make change and influence that world that we
share - spend an hour talking about important issues like mental health, representation and
anti-Asian racism through the lens of pop culture.
Play a MicroLearning Series!
Learn asynchronously, but still all together! Once a week for 3 weeks,
in a wordle-y kind of way, your teams will get together to learn interesting stories and lessons
from Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians! Themes include: Leadership, Mental Health and Breaking
Barriers.
Invite Colleagues to an Round Table!
What's an Interactive Learning Event?
They're part research, part puzzle, part learning and part fun!
What's a microLearning?
MicroLearnings bridge what participants already know, with a little bit more info.
Fill-in-the-blanks style word search learning adds to what participants already know, with a little bit more DEI learning. It's quick, easy, interesing and fun.
Try One
Here's why teams choose HELM Life Programming:
Hosted Events
HELM Life can host up to 200 participantsper event, divided into groups of 6-8. Each group is hosted by one of our trained facilitators, to support teams in their learning and to make sure that things run smoothly.
Easy to Organize
HELM Life Learning Events take 45-60 minutes to complete and fit within a 1-hour calendar block. They're led by our event emcees 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!
Donation Included
All HELM Life Learning Events include a donation to an organization working to address the systemic inequalities we'll be learning about.
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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