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REDI offers a comprehensive range of services encompassing education, training, consultation and guidance. These services empower leaders, faculty, staff and learners to actively contribute to the Faculty’s culture change commitment. Our approach hinges on collaborative action, relationship-building, empowerment, and fostering meaningful choices in the journey towards Respectful Environments, Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Decolonization and Indigeneity. We aim to ensure that individuals feel supported and are aware of their options for advancing change within their work.
REDI’s Resource Hub
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REDI Best Practices
Groundbreaking tip sheets for implementing inclusive policies and practices across domains.
REDI Facilitation Guides
Slide decks to empower leaders in facilitating sessions designed to embed EDI principles into your unit’s core practices.
REDI Moments That Matter
Reflective guides that focus on why certain moments deserve particular attention because of their impact on working and learning environments.
Events
- Frybread Power: The Significance of Indigenous Empowerment, Pride & Resilience for Health
Join an Indigenous Speakers Series session featuring Dr. Evan Tlesla Adams and Joe Gallagher on Monday, September 21, 2026, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. The session will take place as a full-day, in-person event on the UBC Vancouver campus and will also be live-streamed online.
News & Stories
- REDI Digest Guide: Building a More Welcoming Movement Toward a Just Culture
In this edition, the guide summarizes key insights from the 2025 REDI Symposium, “Building a More Welcoming Movement Toward a Just Culture” (June 2025). It explores evidence-informed approaches to fostering lasting change through relationship-building, dialogue, and shared humanity rather than shame and polarization. - REDI Digest Guide: Moving from Harm to Healing (Part II)
In this edition, the guide draws on the It Starts With Us webinar “Moving from Harm to Healing, Part II” (March 2026). It explores how restorative approaches can reshape responses to harm by emphasizing dignity, belonging, accountability, and repair rather than blame and punishment. - REDI Best Practices: Inclusive Job Postings
Inclusive hiring starts with an inclusive job description. This tip sheet provides practical strategies for writing job descriptions that welcome candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds. - Advancing Indigenous Cultural Safety in Practice
Explore UBC CPD’s new self-paced online course, Alhgoh Together as One, Together as Community: Pathway to Indigenous Cultural Safety supports health professionals to meet new standards and build cultural safety and humility in everyday practice. - National Indigenous History Month and Indigenous Peoples Day Events in Lower Mainland (June 2026)
Celebrate Indigenous History Month and Indigenous Peoples Day in the Lower Mainland area. - Bringing an Indigenous perspective to internal medicine
A new residency training pathway at UBC is building capacity to support the diverse needs of Indigenous patients across British Columbia. A Faculty of Medicine Pathways Magazine Story.
Recordings
- Moving from Harm to Healing (part II): A Practical and Relational Lens on Harm and Conflict
Join us virtually on Monday, March 30, 2026, from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (PT), for a session with Catherine Bargen, co-founder of Just Outcomes Canada and a recognized leader in restorative and relational conflict transformation. Moving beyond the “why” of restorative practice, this session provides both principles and examples to guide everyday situations. Participants will be introduced to frameworks for addressing conflict and harm, and for centring relationships by promoting belonging, accountability, and repair. - Engaging Values, Shifting Culture: Evidence-Based Approaches to Frame Messages that Inspire Enduring Change
Watch a recording for an It Starts With Us session with Mark Chenery, Co-Founder and Director of Common Cause Australia. Mark facilitated training on the Common Cause Values and Frames Fundamentals—an evidence-based approach designed for healthcare professionals, educators, leaders, and staff who want to communicate in ways grounded in shared human values. - We Are the Change We Seek: Leading Indigenous Health in British Columbia
Join us virtually on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, from 12:00–3:00 PM (PT), for an Indigenous Speakers Series session featuring Indigenous Vice Presidents from regional health authorities, and the Provincial Health Services Authority. They will share how Indigenous leadership is transforming health systems across B.C.—advancing Cultural Safety, Humility, and Truth and Reconciliation.
With gratitude, we acknowledge that the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and its distributed programs, which include four university academic campuses, are located on traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of First Nations Peoples and communities around the province.
We respectfully acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver-Point Grey academic campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and UBC operations in Vancouver more generally are also on the territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh).
We respectfully acknowledge that the UBC Okanagan academic campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation.
We respectfully acknowledge that the University of Northern BC Prince George campus is located on the traditional territory of the Lheidli T’enneh, who are part of the Dakelh (Carrier) First Nations.
We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territories the University of Victoria is located and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
Learn more about the Faculty of Medicine’s commitments to reconciliation.