Certified Diversity-to-Belonging Facilitator

Issued by Veritas Culture

The earner of this credential is able to facilitate discussions focused on exploring, understanding, and resolving conflict around diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. They demonstrate the emotional intelligence and systems thinking required to elicit authentic dialogue, challenge assumptions and generalizations, remain neutral, and make independent determinations of symptoms, root causes, and root solutions.

Type Certification
Level Advanced
Time Years
Cost Paid

Skills

Earning Criteria

Certified Diversity and Belonging Facilitator have completed Diversity and Belonging Culture Facilitation training on the 7 Tenets of Culture Facilitation: 1. Listening to Understand; 2. Challenging Assumptions and Generalizations; 3. Connecting People and Ideas; 4. Remaining Neutral; 5. Eliciting Authentic Trust and Dialogue; 6. Checking In Throughout; and 7. Distinguishing Symptoms from Root Causes. Additionally, the training introduces diversity, equity, and belonging content and scenarios.
Certified Diversity and Belonging Facilitator have passed a comprehensive 2-part exam. Part 1 required the students to facilitate culture discussions in one-on-one and group sessions. The facilitated culture discussions were scored by Certified Master Facilitators based on the students ability to demonstrate the 7 Tenets of Culture Facilitation. Part 2 was a written exam that tested the students understanding and comprehension of the multi-faceted aspects of facilitating culture discussions.