MindTrench™

Unearthing explicit bias and discrimination in today’s workplace.

A practical bias training that helps staff understand explicit bias, stereotypes, and discrimination, and learn how to interrupt harmful assumptions before they impact people and workplace culture.

4.85 Stars | 789 Reviews

Key benefits

✔ Build a clearer understanding of explicit bias and discrimination
✔ Help staff recognize how stereotypes shape behavior and workplace harm
✔ Strengthen skills for interrupting and reframing harmful assumptions

Quick Facts About MindTrench™

  • This course is available in:

    • Live Online Format - We facilitate the course on Zoom.

    • Live Onsite Format - We come to your office or training space, bring everything needed for a memorable experience, and facilitate the session

    • Self-paced Format Available - You or your team takes the course on our advanced, modern elearning platform.

    • Live Onsite - 90 minutes - 3 hours

    • Live Online - 90 minutes - 3 hours

    • Staff

    • Supervisors

    • Managers

    • Leadership

    • Board Members

    • Any person on your team who works with others or people in the community.

  • Recommended Group Sizes

    • 30-40 per Training

    • We offer single person live onsite & live online trainings

    • We offer large group trainings onsite and online from 100+ people

    • Optional Certificate of Completion for live onsite , live online.

    • Certificate of Completion awarded automatically for Self-paced course.

What MindTrench™ Teaches

MindTrench™ is a practical workplace training that helps participants understand what bias is, what explicit bias is, and how explicit bias can lead to discrimination and harm in workplace interactions. Grounded in clarity, reflection, and real-world application, the training breaks down how stereotypes and conscious assumptions can shape behavior, decisions, and workplace culture.

Participants explore how explicit bias can show up in both obvious and more subtle ways, including well-intended actions that still reinforce unfairness, exclusion, or discrimination. The training helps staff understand that bias is not only about harmful intent, it is also about impact, patterns, and the assumptions people act on without fully questioning them.

By the end of the training, participants leave with stronger awareness, clearer language, and practical tools to identify, interrupt, and reframe explicit bias so it causes less harm to the people they work with, supervise, support, or serve.

Pillar 1: What Bias Is

Build a clearer understanding of bias, stereotypes, and how they form.

Pillar 2: Explicit Bias

Learn how conscious assumptions can lead to unfair treatment and harm.

Pillar 3: Interrupt and Reframe

Practice ways to identify, interrupt, and reframe explicit bias.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Define bias, explicit bias, stereotypes, and explicit discrimination.

  2. Explain how explicit bias can shape behavior, decisions, and workplace interactions.

  3. Recognize how even well-intended actions can still reinforce exclusion or discrimination.

  4. Identify examples of explicit bias and discrimination in real workplace situations.

  5. Apply tools for interrupting and reframing harmful assumptions before they cause further harm.

Tools Participants Learn

Participants leave with practical tools including:

  • Shared language for understanding bias and discrimination

  • Reflection prompts for identifying explicit bias and stereotypes

  • Strategies for interrupting harmful assumptions in the moment

  • Reframing tools that support more fair and thoughtful responses

  • Practical ways to reduce discrimination and workplace harm

Who is MindTrench™ for?

This training is Ideal For

• Employees and frontline staff
• Supervisors and managers
• HR and training leaders
• Cross-functional teams
• School staff and public service employees
• Social workers and service coordinators

Available Training Formats

Live Training
Facilitated workshop delivered via Zoom or in person.

Self-Paced Course
Interactive eLearning participants can complete on their own schedule.

Each option can be customized for your team.

Testimonials

“What stood out most was how accessible the training made a difficult topic. It helped our supervisors recognize patterns they may have overlooked before and gave them tools to interrupt bias and respond more thoughtfully.”

Operations Manager

“This training helped our team better understand how explicit bias can show up even when people believe they mean well. It gave us practical language for identifying harmful assumptions and thinking more carefully about how those assumptions affect others.”

HR Director

“MindTrench was eye-opening because it broke down bias in a way that felt clear, practical, and relevant to everyday workplace situations. Our staff walked away with a better understanding of how explicit bias and discrimination can show up and what to do about it.”

School Principal

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Hours
Monday–Friday
7am–7pm Pacific Standard Time

Location
Oakland, California | & Your City!