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IDEAL Center
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, Leadership
Professional Development
The Science Museum of Minnesota’s IDEAL Center helps professionals who are serious about equity and inclusion see their world differently and have the abilities, strategies and will to make it more just and open.
Our scientific mindset and research-proven teaching and facilitation practices help participants become agents of change: transforming people, relationships, organizations, and our world.
TRANSFORMATIVE
GUIDED & SUPPORTIVE
CUSTOMIZED IDEAL EXPERIENCES
Our ability to work with groups of all kinds comes from our extensive experience as adult educators. Whatever your equity goals are, we can help you.
IDEAL Workshops for Schools, Colleges, and Workplaces
Gain new perspectives on seeing and disrupting disparities and inequities.
These three to five-day experiences for business, academic, and civic organizations facilitate learning and growth around IDEAL topics with a focus on empowering local and interpersonal action in your organization.
IDEAL Leadership Intensives
Bring about meaningful and lasting institutional change.
These intensive programs are designed specifically for leadership teams in a variety of organizations who want to work together, become change agents, and have a personally and professionally transformative experience.
Equity Labs
One Day, Three Actors, Three Facilitators & Thousands of Variations.
Equity Labs will help you and your team witness and experience typical scenes of privilege, classism, racism, sexism and other systems of oppression as performed by our Equity Labs professional actors. Our expert facilitators will guide your group as you discuss what’s happening, suggest potential interventions, and then see how those interventions play out in real-time.
OPEN REGISTRATIONS
IDEAL Experience Equity Workshop
The Spring 2020 IDEAL Equity Workshop is now full. Contact the IDEAL Center to be notified about the next opportunity to join other professionals from across the country for a 3-day equity workshop at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
The PAGE Leadership Program
Bringing about positive change in Districts. Now accepting applications for the 2020-2021 Cohort.
The iPAGE Leadership Veterans Program
Addressing Equity and Inclusion in Informal STEM Institutions.
TESTIMONIALS
Orlando Science Center
JoAnn Newman | President & Chief Executive Officer
Something that sets this apart from other training is the way that we engage as participants. This is not a trainer lecturing from the front of the room, calling on those who raise their hands. It’s more like having a leader (who has devoted their life to this work) guiding us through a set of complex interactions and helping us understand ourselves and how we can be part of a positive systemic change.
Echo Park Elementary School of Leadership, Engineering, & Technology
Scott Thomas | Principal
The institute has had an incredibly positive impact on our school culture, beliefs, and student learning. Thank you for carefully listening to our goals and incorporating them into the learning in thoughtful ways. You are masterful facilitators and did a fabulous job moving our community forward with a deeper understanding of equity, powerful learning, and inclusion for our students.
Wellesley College
Amy Banzaert, Ph.D. | Director and Lecturer of Engineering Studies
In a nutshell: amazing, phenomenal, the best teaching I've ever experienced on a topic that's critical to me as a professor and as a human.
JBS
Len Bakken | Director of Human Resources
This is an amazing and eye-opening workshop! You all have done a wonderful job educating us. Every detail seemed intentional and well coordinated.
Solomon Group
Jaron Keener | Senior Project Manager, Exhibits & Environments
The IDEAL Center team is inspiring and a guiding light for those committed to creating lasting positive change. They are so experienced and knowledgeable, creating a truly safe environment where I felt comfortable breaking down my walls and participating in frank and honest conversations around diversity, equity, access, and inclusion issues. They provided a guiding hand but were nimble and observant enough to allow for a variety of personal transformations.
