The Centering Change Skills Hub contains modules designed to build understanding, awareness, and effective practice. The modules include listening, adopting a growth mindset, reducing biased interactions and judgments, building racial and cultural literacy, giving and receiving feedback, addressing issues of race, gender, and bias, and having difficult conversations.

The modules include: (1) information about the meaning and importance of the skill, and strategies that improve the skill, (2) reflective inquiry inviting people to incorporate this skill into everyday practice, and (3) exercises designed to increase understanding and capacity to use the skill.

The Centering Change Skills hub creates a distinct online learning community for each participating cohort. It has a flexible format enabling the Centering Change team to tailor the modules by providing examples and exercises relevant to the participating cohort.

This website grew out of initiatives led by Professor Susan Sturm aimed at building people’s effectiveness as change agents able to advance full participation in their workplaces and communities. Building on her work with educational institutions and court systems, Centering Change took shape in a workshop designed for the Massachusetts Trial Courts, developed in collaboration with trial court leadership to build the capacity of leadership at all levels of the trial court to identify and address issues of race and bias, as part of advancing the Trial Court’s mission of providing justice with dignity. That work complemented the creation of a leadership course at Columbia Law School, entitled Lawyer Leadership: Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading Change. Both of these spaces provided participants and facilitators with concrete tools, practices, and a multi-racial learning community. They also demonstrated the need for an interactive learning space that would support ongoing learning and practice.

Access to the site requires permission from the Site Administrator. If you are interested in learning more about the Centering Change website, please contact the Site Administrator at support@centeringchange.org.