REDI Best Practices: Inclusive and Accessible Meetings
Practical tips for reducing barriers and creating inclusive, accessible meetings where everyone can meaningfully participate and contribute.
EDI Joint Interest Group
Upcoming Sessions:
October 19 | Giving Difficult Feedback with Katherine Wisener and Madison Tardif
November 16 | Indigenizing the Curriculum: Lessons from Physiotherapy with Shannon Field and Robin Roots
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.
Introduction to the REDI Office: Resources for Faculty and Staff
Are you new to UBC or the Faculty of Medicine? Learn about the REDI Office’s range of resources to support your role, from professional development and EDI best practices to strategies for fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace.
Introduction to the REDI Office: Resources for Learners
Discover a wealth of resources from the REDI Office designed to support your learning journey. Join upcoming events, and access over 50 hours of recorded events.
REDI Digest Guide: Strengthening Medical Curriculum in an era of Truth, Reconciliation and Inclusion
In this edition, the guide explores barriers to Indigenous health, cultural safety, and decolonization in medical education, and invites reflection on the responsibilities of educators and leaders in advancing curricular change, accountability, and reconciliation.
Unpacking Polarities, Diversity Meets Reality: Grappling with the Hard Edges of Inclusive Clinical Teaching
This REDI Deep Dive Facilitation Guide is an adaptable lesson plan for health sciences and professions educators leading EDI learning sessions with colleagues. Through reflection, dialogue, and case-based discussion, participants examine tensions in inclusive medical education, and identify practical strategies and systems changes that support diverse learners and more inclusive learning environments.
4 Steps to Help Deepen Awareness of Bias
This guide outlines four practical, reflective steps to help deepen awareness of bias in everyday interactions and decision-making. Adapted from Deep Diversity by Shakil Choudhury, these steps are intended as an ongoing practice to support more equitable, reflective, and inclusive approaches in education, research, and clinical environments.
REDI Digest Guide: Engaging Values, Shifting Culture
In this edition, the guide draws on the It Starts With Us training Engaging Values, Shifting Culture: Evidence-Based Approaches to Frame Messages that Inspire Enduring Change (January 2026), facilitated by Mark Chenery of Common Cause Australia. It introduces values-based messaging strategies that help supports educators, leaders, and practitioners in communicating in ways that reduce defensiveness and inspire lasting cultural shifts.
Moments That Matter: Conflict
In this guide, we focus on Conflict as a key moment that can either strengthen respect and belonging or deepen resentment and exclusion. It highlights how conflict is inevitable and not inherently negative. The guide invites reflection on how to help ensure that conflict is addressed in ways that protect equity-deserving voices and support learning, and trust.