Organizational Culture Shift & Team Consultations
We understand how difficult, and sometimes even defeating it can feel to address equity concerns in the workplace. Equally, we understand the difficulty in trying to balance the shift of workplace culture and managing staff wellness, all while ensuring the needs of clients are still being met. Agapé Lens provides solutions to small and large organizations, businesses, and corporations. We are committed to carefully partnering and guiding you through this transformative process, to ensure impactful and lasting change.
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James Baldwin
Organizational Culture Shift & Team Consultations:
Perhaps you need support in in addressing anti-racism to create a more equitable work environment and systemic change? Maybe one of your teams require clinical support and/or team consultations, to become more culturally responsive to the needs of racialized clients? Perhaps you recognize a high turnover in the workplace and want to increase your retention rates and staff wellness?
Our highly skilled team can tailor our services to meet your specific wellness and equity needs. We are intentional in supporting leadership and team members to build confidence around equity concerns, normalizing a learning environment where mistakes are allowed, embedding leadership and staff wellness, and fostering a trusting environment for all to feel seen, heard, and valued. We believe when your workplace culture is healthy, it significantly increases your ability to support the needs of your clients. Contact us today, where we may support you and your team through: education, training, leadership coaching, team building, Black healing circles, clinical supervision, non-clinical case consultations, retreats and more!
Areas of Expertise:
Anti-Black Racism & Anti-Racism Training • Clinical & Non-Clinical Case Consultations • Staff & Leadership Wellness • Burnout & Coping • Leadership Coaching • Complaint Procedures • Allyship & Accomplice • Self-Care • Psychological Safety • Vision and Values • Team Building • Staff Appreciation • Policy & Procedure Review and Development • Conflict Resolution • Baseline Evaluation and Report • Black Mental Health • Implicit Bias Training • Racial Microaggressions • Equity Committees Support • Reconciliation Processes • Communal Care
Testimonials
“The St. Michael's Academic Family Health team is very grateful to have had the opportunity to work and learn with Simone Donaldson. Partnering with Simone has been a very positive experience. She has helped us advance our understanding of how anti-Black racism leads to structural inequities in our workplace, health system and the communities and patients we serve. Simone uses a trauma-informed, strength-based approach in her consultations, leadership coaching and education programming while at the same time holds us accountable for our individual and collective actions. Her approach to addressing anti-Black racism has been well received and valued by our large interprofessional team and is helping us improve the culture of our workplace. We are looking forward to continuing to work with and learn from Simone for a second year. “
Linda Jackson MSW, RSW, Senior Clinical Director, Primary and Community Care, Unity Health Toronto
Karen Weyman MD, Chief, Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto
“Simone from Agapé Lens Consulting & Therapy is a gem! She is highly professional, organized and intelligent. I hired Simone to provide a review of materials for a post-secondary institution. She provided critical insight and sound review of materials and an easy to read and understand report which was helpful when making key changes. Simone made working with her easy: she met all deadlines, was affable and paid great attention to detail. I couldn't have asked for more. “
Stefanie Ivan MS Ed , Principal, Higher Education Consulting (Canada)
"One of the reasons as to why we wanted Simone to consult with the teams in our Community Services Department at Strides Toronto, was because we needed a consultant and clinical supervisor who could bring an Anti-Black Racism/Anti-Oppressive lens to the work we do. Working with Simone has not only enabled us to work better as individuals, but also as a team. By creating a safer space for all of us, Simone has been able to encourage us to become vulnerable in front of each other, which happened organically. She helped us to understand the importance of self-reflection, how to embed this into our work and how critical this is if we want to do our work well and grow as case managers, clinicians, supervisors, and managers. To be able to speak about who you are, the values you hold, how you were socialized by your caregivers and your community truthfully and honestly, indicates what has truly been missing from evidence-based practices before the team started with Simone, all while changing the trajectory of the work and success of the clients we serve. “
Arlene Gonash-Nelson MSC, BSc, Manager, Community Supports, Gender Based Violence Team and Youth in Transition Team, Strides Toronto
“Working with Simone has been a true delight. Simone is knowledgeable, empathetic and consistent. I had the pleasure of working directly with Simone on a project that dealt with the realities of Black mental health and youth. She helped us in a few areas as the lead mental health consultant, which included team consultation, program development, workshop facilitation and individual psychotherapy for the youth who participated in the program. Simone provided in-depth expertise on Black mental health, but what makes Simone different is her use of Afrocentric practices in her line of work. Through working with Simone for over two years , I experienced first hand how passionate she is about mental health but especially the mental health of Black folks in the GTA. I would wholeheartedly recommend Simone for therapy, organizational and team consultations, and training. “
Natasha Darko, Project coordinator, IMARA Generation Project, TAIBU Community Health Centre