Remote Employee Engagement and Resilience Building
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As we are all adjusting to the “new normal”, we, at Storybolt, would love to support your organization’s Employee Engagement and Resilience Building efforts by offering our virtual sessions built around real stories and impactful conversations.
At Storybolt, we offer online events that explore top D&I topics as they relate to the current circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, through short-documentary screenings and live Q&A with the filmmaker, all taking place remotely via Zoom.
- Virtual bias and how it affects productivity and communication (Implicit bias).
- The double burden of professional women working remotely (Gender equity).
- Effects of isolation and how to overcome them (Mental health)
- What mindfulness is and how it can be a tool for managing anxiety (Mental health)
And more.
Our sessions are a great way to strengthen employee performance and engagement as they facilitate a way to build empathy, check-in with employees, build team and leader resilience, create new team rituals, and address the loss of inclusivity experienced by the forced-to-be remote employees.
At Storybolt, we thrive to help companies emerge from the current challenges even stronger. Please contact us to learn more and tell us how we can help.
Storybolt Session Examples:
Virtual Biases
Film: Bias
Synopsis: Bias, challenges the audience to confront their own unconscious biases and uncovers how unconscious bias defines relationships, workplaces, our justice system, and technology. bias contemplates the most pressing question: can we de-bias our brains?
Filmmaker Bio: Robin directed 4 documentaries, all related to gender gaps and gender biases. Also, she is a TED speaker on topics including bias in AI, the importance of diversity, the pay gap, and equality. She has also spoken at the White House, on Capitol Hill, and at conferences worldwide on topics including diversity and inclusion.
Allyship and Virtual Support
Film: Out In The Line-Up
Synopsis: Two gay surfers embark on a global journey to uncover the taboo of homosexuality in surfing. They become part of an emerging community prepared to step out of the shadows of secrecy and create a more open and accepting surfing culture.
Filmmaker Bio: Thomas is the founder of GaySurfers.net – the first global community for gay surfers, which now counts thousands of members worldwide. Thomas produced the documentary film uncovering the taboo of homosexuality in Surfing called “OUT in the line-up” in 2014.
Mindfulness
Film: Hello, Me Again
Synopsis: Will Williams and Jess Cook are Vedic meditation practitioners and teachers, living and working in central London. They have taught thousands of people this ancient technique, which they claim can help overcome almost any type of stress-induced condition, anxiety, addiction, depression, existential crisis. They say modern scientific studies prove that it helps boost productivity, creativity, memory, emotional intelligence, and compassion.
Filmmaker Bio: Rory Sturdy has over 15 years of experience working with non-profit organizations, foundations, charities, and social enterprises to help them connect effectively with target audiences.
Women Empowerment
Film: Pioneers in Skirts
Synopsis: Pioneers in Skirts is an entertaining movie about why and how we can achieve gender parity in the workplace and in our culture. This multi-award winning film delivers fun and relatable way to talk about topics of stereotyping, sexism, and the realities that others are experiencing. Audiences see their role in the problem, experience a broadened perspective of what’s really happening around them, and awaken with a sense of responsibility and empathy so that they feel they can make a difference.
Filmmaker Bio: Ashley Maria is a director and writer who has not only won the coveted Directors Guild of America (DGA) award, she is a sought-out public speaker and film-festival judge. When she’s not running her own production, Ashley is a directing instructor at UCLA Film Program and AFI’s Young Women in Film Seminar. And, because of her commitment to creating opportunities for women everywhere, Ashley has been appointed as a North American delegate at the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women.