Recognise Your Privilege is an experiential workshop created to support professionals in understanding how social, cultural, and structural advantages show up in everyday interactions, decision making, leadership, and group dynamics. The workshop helps participants move from awareness to intentional action, fostering empathy, equity, and more inclusive collaboration within teams and organisations.
Privilege is not a concept reserved for academic debate nor a badge of guilt. Instead, it describes the ways in which certain identities, experiences, and social positions shape how much space we are allowed to occupy, how our voices are heard, and how influence flows in-group settings. This workshop helps participants explore these dynamics in constructive, grounded, and practical ways.
Why recognising privilege matters
Privilege often operates beneath the surface of everyday life, unnoticed by those who benefit from it. It can shape who speaks first in meetings, whose ideas are taken seriously, who is interrupted or overlooked, and whose contributions are assumed to be valuable without question. Unless these patterns are recognised, they can reinforce inequality, limit diverse participation, and reduce psychological safety for colleagues whose voices are already marginalised.
Recognising one’s own privilege is not about self-flagellation or assigning blame. It is about becoming conscious of the invisible advantages or unearned benefits we may carry, and understanding how these influence others. This awareness can become a powerful tool for leaders and team members alike to create environments where more voices are genuinely heard and where collaboration thrives.
A workshop built on reflection and shared learning
The Recognise Your Privilege workshop is designed as an interactive learning experience rather than a lecture. Participants engage in guided reflection, group discussion, and structured activities that help illuminate how privilege appears in real professional contexts. The exercises encourage curiosity, compassion, and courageous conversation rather than defensiveness or judgment.
Through facilitated dialogue, participants explore questions such as how their background and identity influence their experience of power, how assumptions shape interpersonal dynamics, and how systemic patterns can unintentionally exclude or silence others. By moving beyond abstract definitions and into lived experience, the workshop helps teams notice patterns that might otherwise go unchallenged.
Practical exploration, real-world relevance
The workshop does not rely on abstract theory alone. Instead, it connects deeply human concepts to everyday professional life. Teams work on recognising where privilege shows up in team meetings, decision processes, performance feedback, leadership pathways, and collaboration practices.
Participants learn to identify moments when privilege might give them unearned advantage or unconsciously limit others — for example, when someone’s contributions go unchallenged because of who they are, or when certain voices consistently fill the conversational space while others fall silent. By learning to see these patterns, participants gain clarity on how behaviour, expectations, and power shape group outcomes.
Who the workshop is for
Recognise Your Privilege is suitable for professionals, teams, and leaders who are committed to fostering more equitable and inclusive ways of working. This includes managers seeking to lead with greater empathy, teams navigating cross-cultural collaboration, and organisations wishing to increase psychological safety and diverse participation.
No prior experience with diversity work or social theory is required. The workshop is designed to be accessible and respectful, meeting people wherever they are in their journey of awareness and learning. Everyone has some form of privilege and some form of marginalisation; this workshop invites participants to explore both with openness and care.
Moving from awareness to action
Awareness of privilege is only the first step. The workshop supports participants in thinking intentionally about how they can use their position or platform constructively. This can include creating space for others, listening deeply before speaking, advocating for underrepresented perspectives, and examining structural barriers within teams or processes.
Participants are guided to consider how small, consistent actions can contribute to meaningful shifts in their work environments. This might involve changing meeting norms, mentoring differently, questioning who gets invited to certain conversations, or supporting policies that broaden access to opportunities.
This focus on actionable change helps make the workshop relevant not only as a reflective experience but as a catalyst for everyday practice.
Format and learning environment
The Recognise Your Privilege workshop can be delivered in person or online and adapted to different organisational contexts and timeframes. It balances structured facilitation with room for personal reflection and group discussion. The environment is designed to be supportive, confidential, and inclusive, so participants can explore challenging topics without fear of judgement.
Facilitation emphasises active listening, respect for differing perspectives, and grounding insights in real workplace scenarios. The goal is to support both individual growth and collective understanding, helping teams build stronger relational trust and more equitable collaboration.
The facilitator’s approach
This workshop is facilitated by Steven Morgan, a professional with experience in facilitation, organisational development, and improv-inspired methods that support presence, listening, and embodiment of ideas. His approach combines reflective inquiry with practical application, creating space for honest conversation that leads to real insight and action.
Steven’s experience working with diverse teams, both within organisations and in public workshops, informs his belief that equity and inclusion emerge from the way people show up with one another — especially in moments of difference, uncertainty, or tension.
Cultivating conscious and responsible contribution
Recognising privilege is not about perfection. It is about becoming more conscious of how our identities and experiences shape our interactions, decisions, and influence. It invites participants to consider how everyday behaviour can either reinforce barriers or create pathways for more voices to be heard.
The Recognise Your Privilege workshop offers a grounded, meaningful way for individuals and teams to begin that work together. It fosters clearer understanding, deeper listening, and more intentional contribution to shared goals, supporting organisations that aim to be inclusive, equitable, and thoughtful in how they collaborate.