2026
Workplace Consultations and Trainings
The following are services offered by Interfaith Philadelphia to support the leadership development, team building, customer care, and service of your workplace, school, or congregation.
We recommend a range of experiences designed to support leaders, teams, and organizations in building stronger relationships, navigating difference, and creating more connected and inclusive communities. Explore the themes below and consider the experiences that best fit your team’s goals, and time capacity.
You can select a single approach for a focused professional development experience, or combine several themes to create a meaningful half-day, full-day, or multi-day retreat tailored to your team. We work with you to shape the experience, determine the right combination of exercises, and create a learning journey that meets your organization's needs.
All offerings can be in person or virtual.
We also provide consulting support for leadership and management. We can also help you address a specific challenge or design a special event.
Communicating Across Difference
We communicate on a regular basis with one another, yet when disagreements arise or conversations turn to more difficult topics, many of us become uncomfortable. These trainings provide participants with skills to navigate more challenging conversations, which inevitably arise in the workplace, congregations, community events or at school.
Preparing for Difficult Conversations
Prepares participants for challenging conversations, clarifying intentions, identifying assumptions, biases, and triggers, and developing strategies for facing difficult situations and communicating with greater clarity and effectiveness.
Available as1.5 hours2 hours
Navigating Difficult Conversations
Provides participants with practical tools for approaching challenging conversations with greater awareness, clarity, and confidence. Specific focus on practical listening and conflict-resolution skills.
This highly practical workshop helps participants develop greater confidence and skill in approaching conversations that may feel uncomfortable, emotionally charged, or high-stakes. Participants examine assumptions, biases, certainty, and emotional responses and practice tools for listening, communicating clearly, and remaining engaged when perspectives differ.
Available as1.5 hours2 hours
Bridging Through Difficult Conversations
Helps participants build skills and practices for finding deeper understanding and ultimately a connection especially when people hold different perspectives or experiences. Real time practice to find a connection in the face of opposing views.
Available asHalf-day
Compassionate Listening
Builds participants awareness of reactions, assumptions, and perspectives while strengthening capacity to listen with curiosity, compassion, and intention. Participants practice skills for communicating authentically and respectfully, navigating challenging conversations, building trust, and creating more collaborative workplaces.
The approach is especially useful for leaders and teams working across differences in role, experience, identity, perspective, or values. This workshop supports building stronger teams and supports leaders in preventing burnout in how they care for self and others.
Available as1.5 hoursHalf-dayFull-dayMulti-Day
Practice Curiosity
Develops participants skills for asking better questions and seeking to understand new perspectives to improve communication, strengthen relationships, and help identify the needs and perspectives of colleagues and customers. Participants explore how curiosity can interrupt assumptions, improve communication, and strengthen relationships in the workplace.
Available as1.5 hours
Civil Conversations
Supports participants engaging across differences while maintaining respect, curiosity, and productive dialogue. Participants will practice navigating a complex topic with practical strategies. The host gives input on the thematic focus based on interests/needs.
Available as1.5 hours2 hours
Religious and Cultural Understanding
What does it look like to better understand our colleagues, teams, classmates? How might their experience shape their approach to projects, learning, teamwork? How can we create spaces of belonging and care for the beauty and challenges of life?
Panel: Religious Diversity in the Workplace
Builds participants religious literacy through direct encounter with people from different faith traditions and lived experiences. Through structured facilitation, dialogue, and opportunities for questions, participants deepen their understanding of Philadelphia's diverse religious landscape and explore how religious identity, values, holidays, practices, and experiences may shape the lives of colleagues and members of the public. Participants consider how this understanding can strengthen inclusive leadership, respectful workplace relationships, and service to Philadelphia's diverse communities.
Available as1.5 hoursHalf-day
Art of Interfaith Understanding
Enhances participants understanding of religious diversity, spirituality, and human experience through the lens of art. Participants engage with works of art to deepen their understanding and respect for the religious traditions and spiritual perspectives that have shaped culture, while developing the patience and curiosity to look closely and ask meaningful questions. Through facilitated conversation, participants encounter perspectives different from their own and practice contemplative and meditation techniques inspired by works of art. This is a great introduction to expanding religious and cultural awareness. Experiences are offered at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, other culturally significant sites, or virtually.
Available as1.5 hoursHalf-day
Venture Out Experiences
Expands participants awareness beyond books, presentations, and theory into learning through direct encounter. This custom-designed professional development experience gives participants an opportunity to engage with diverse faith communities in real-world settings. Experiences may include visits to houses of worship, conversations with faith practitioners and community leaders, observation or participation in religious practices, and facilitated opportunities to ask questions and reflect.
Participants gain a deeper understanding of Philadelphia’s rich and diverse faith landscape and gain insight into the religious, cultural, and community influences that shape the people and neighborhoods they serve and work alongside. Through immersion and relationship-building, participants develop greater religious literacy, cultural fluency, curiosity, and confidence to engage effectively across differences in their workplaces and communities. Additional travel and transportation costs may apply depending on the location and nature of the experience.
Available asHalf-dayFull-day
Building Inclusive & Connected Teams
How might we intentionally develop skills to support connection, community, belonging? What does it look like to address harmful stereotypes within us or that show up in our workplaces, schools, communities?
Passport to Understanding
Guides participants to explore a framework for developing greater awareness, curiosity, and compassion toward oneself and others. Applied to leadership development, this framework helps participants strengthen their capacity to recognize difference, engage unfamiliar perspectives, and build relationships across lines of difference. The Passport to Understanding themes (be curious, venture out, welcome in, stand tall, stand with) provide shared language and skills to reinforce learning.
Available as1.5 hoursHalf-dayFull-dayMulti-Day
Stand With: How to Navigate and Interrupt Moments of Harm
Amplifies participants awareness of assumptions and biases that shape how people perceive themselves, others, and workplace encounters. Through exploration of identity, perspective, values, and experience, participants practice noticing assumptions, remaining curious when perspectives differ or disagreements arise, and making more intentional choices about how they respond. Develop practical strategies for responding when difficult moments arise, including bias, exclusion, harm, or tension across difference. Explores workplace-relevant scenarios and practices ways to interrupt harm, support those affected, and move towards repair.
Available as1.5 hoursHalf-day
Facilitation
As leaders we have formal and informal opportunities to help support the ways conversations unfold.
How to Facilitate Civil Conversations
Developed participants practical facilitation skills for creating productive dialogue, encouraging participation, managing disagreement, navigating strong emotions, and helping groups move toward greater understanding and clarity. Participants will practice group facilitation and strategize how to handle challenging scenarios. Recommended for leadership.
This training can be particularly useful for supervisors, managers, meeting facilitators, and employees whose roles require them to bring people together around challenging issues.
Available asHalf-dayFull-day
Consultation & Coaching
Have a specific challenge or question related to religious diversity, interfaith engagement, or building belonging?
Interfaith Philadelphia offers individualized consultation to help your organization navigate complex situations, explore solutions, and identify practical next steps tailored to your needs.
Available asHourly
Rates
| Service | Rate* |
|---|---|
| 90-minute workshop | $4,250 |
| Half-day workshop, up to 3.5 hours | $6,000 |
| Full-day workshop, up to 7 hours | $10,000 |
| Leadership consulting | $250 per hour** |
| Custom Programs / Multi-Session Engagements | Please contact us for a quote |
*Limited subsidized pricing is available for community organizations. Please reach out to us to discuss your needs.
Consider writing Interfaith Philadelphia into your next grant. We regularly partner with organizations to support funded programs.
**Each workshop offering includes 3-5 hours of leadership coaching. Additional consulting is available at $250 per hour.
Note: Additional fees may apply for programming outside the Philadelphia area, significant customization, larger audiences or licensing agreements.
Testimonials
“Interfaith Philadelphia brings both clarity and practical expertise to the work of fostering meaningful dialogue across differences. Their framework for navigating challenging conversations is particularly relevant to independent schools, where strong relationships are at the heart of student-to-student, student-to-teacher, and colleague-to-colleague interactions. Interfaith Philadelphia’s programming aligns closely with our values and has provided our schools with meaningful tools for strengthening dialogue, relationships, and community.”
Deb B.
Independent School Administrator
“Interfaith Philadelphia’s facilitators are exceptional: knowledgeable and skilled, but also warm, relatable, and deeply attuned to the people in the room. Our audiences have responded enthusiastically, with positive feedback following every training. They create the kind of environment where people feel comfortable engaging honestly, reflecting on their own experiences, and learning from one another.
The learning is practical and applicable across both our personal and professional lives, and relevant to people working with a wide range of communities and audiences.
Interfaith Philadelphia has been a wonderful partner, and every collaboration has left us with stronger skills, deeper understanding, and tools we continue to carry into our work and relationships.”
Kristyn D.
Non Profit Leader
“[Working with Interfaith Philadelphia] was a very good professional development experience. It has left me thinking about how [the museum] can increase how it engages with the variety of perspectives and experiences that co-exist within a particular faith.”
Glencairn Museum Staff
(Anonymous)
“Speakers were engaging and open and students enjoyed meeting them. Facilitation was excellent. Well-designed and delivered. Facilitators were confident in leading the event yet maintained warmth and openness towards the class. This meant the sessions with both informative and modeled excellent dialogue facilitation.”
Leah A.
University Professor
“The program itself was interactive and highly engaging. Their case studies were thoughtful and well designed, and sparked exactly the kind of conversation we were hoping for. They also brought a useful framework that gave participants a valuable take-away they could carry back to their schools.
I would happily work with Interfaith Philadelphia again, and I'd recommend them to anyone looking for skilled, engaging designers and facilitators!”
Emily M.
Designer of Professional Education Experiences
We also provide consulting support for leadership and management. We can also help you address a specific challenge or design a special event.
