Justice, Equity & Belonging Program
YWCA Columbus is on a mission to advance racial equity. Creating a community where we can all belong and thrive takes more than just good intentions. It requires learning, unlearning and deep internal and social change.
Transforming our communities requires many small steps and changes in your relationship with ourselves as well as every single person we interreact with. We must decide and keep deciding to counter and dismantle systemic and cultural oppression, and we must do this learning and practice in community.
Current Justice, Equity & Belonging Learning Offerings ↘
Courses overview explaining options to fit different learning needs
Option 1Individual & Group Training Videos
Racial Equity 101, Restorative Practices 101, Belonging 101
$30/Individual pass
These foundational videos are ideal for individual learners and can also serve as a primer ahead of engaging live-facilitated group learning. The training videos are available online and on-demand for self-paced learning and review.
Option 2Live Workshops
Restorative Practices: Centering Community Safety & Healing, Racial Equity Foundations & Applications, Belonging: Beyond Inclusion, Belonging: Leading Across Difference
2-hour workshop with up to 40 participants
$3,500/session
These foundational workshops provide participants with the space and opportunity to learn foundational history, language, and individual practices to empower their justice journey.
Option 3Organizational Change Planning Retreat
Belonging: Towards Organizational Equity
3-4 hour workshop with up to 20 participants $5,000/session
This retreat-style workshop includes a review of foundational belonging concepts, an introduction to an equity-centered organizational change model, and guidance through identifying opportunities for leadership application, and structural and cultural change.
Option 4Facilitated Conversations
Applied Practice (General, Facilitating Circles, Cultivating Courage for Challenging Conversations, Accountability & Repairing Harm, Organizational Integration for Executives),
Applied Practice with Youth Serving Programs and People Leaders, JEB Facilitated Community Listening Circle
90-minute session with up to 20 participants $1,500
These group learning sessions are discussion and activity-based, providing more opportunity for self- and team-reflection, perspective sharing, and guided practice.
Option 5Restorative Practices: Applied Group Learning & Practice
Roots & Reflections, Implicit Bias & Cultural Humility, Avoiding & Disrupting Microaggressions, Identity, Opportunity, and Intersectionality
90-minute session with up to 20 participants $1,500
After engaging in our foundational restorative practices workshop or video, these sessions support groups in deepening learnings and the practical application of concepts.
Option 6Conflict Mediation Offerings
Restorative Conflict Conferencing, Responsive Circle
Cost determined on a case-by-case basis
If your workplace or other community group is looking to share power, center accountability, and promote healing and repair after an incident of harm, our conflict mediation services, based in restorative practices, may be right for you.
Don’t see what you are looking for? Please reach out to our program managers so that we can collaborate on the right learning engagement for your community/organization.
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From Our Clients“I really enjoyed how you all created space for honest conversation and deeper understanding. The way you connected history, identity, and personal growth made everything feel real and relevant.”
Meet Your Instructors
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Justice, Equity & Belonging Program Manager
Phyl grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio among their large extended and multicultural family. Their academic and professional background includes health & wellness, embodied activism, restorative practices, and macro social work. Phyl spent over a decade working in early childhood education and development, as well as direct social service before transitioning into social justice and community development. Phyl studied at The Ohio State University, International Institute of Restorative Practices, Boston University, and The Embody Lab and is a 2025 Next City Vanguard Urban Leadership Fellow . Phyl founded The Reconnection Circle consulting firm in 2023, currently serves as a Justice, Equity & Belonging Program Manager at YWCA Columbus and a Lead Designer at the Women of Color Equity Design Institute.
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Justice, Equity & Belonging Program Manager
A proud native of Cleveland, Danielle earned a Bachelor of Arts from Spelman College before returning to her hometown to earn a Master of Science in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University. With experience in macro-level social work, education, and community advocacy, Danielle looks forward to honoring the work already happening in the community and collaborating to advance positive social change. She currently serves on the board of She, Imprints, and is a 2026 fellow in the African American Leadership Academy. Her work centers on building equitable systems, strengthening community partnerships, and creating pathways for collective impact.
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