- Date
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Cohort one: April 2025
Cohort two: September 2025
More information below
- Location
- London
- Price
- £2,575 +VAT
- Duration
- Three modules - five sessions over three-four months
- Contact
- Speak to the team
Join us for Activate, an innovative leadership development programme created through the collaboration of brap and The King’s Fund, designed for individuals in management or leadership roles within health and care. This is an essential foundation in anti-racist practice for all leaders who want to create race equality within their organisation.
We recognise that racism persists as a significant barrier to achieving equity in health and care. It shapes the experiences and opportunities of our colleagues from global majority backgrounds on a daily basis. It is time for change, and change is urgent. That is why we are focusing on developing anti-racist leadership in health and care.
Through Activate, you will embark on a journey of discovery through workshops and learning sets led by a diverse team of facilitators from brap and The King’s Fund. You will be supported to explore how you can view situations differently, respond with empathy, and lead with inclusivity.
Activated
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Mobilised by the enduring injustices of racism for communities, patients and staff in health and care.
Critical
Awake to the different ways racialised thinking creates racialised outcomes in the health and care system.
Self-aware
Committed to fighting racism wherever we find it, including in ourselves.
Embodied
Focused on embodied ways of knowing and being as opposed to overly analytical and cognitive problem-solving.
Accountable
Modelling accountability for racism, these programme principles and our learning.
Collective
Coalition building for collective anti-racist leadership that is a win-win situation for all marginalised groups.
What will I learn on the Activate programme?
During the Activate programme you'll work with facilitators from The King’s Fund and brap to:
understand race, racism and racialised thinking
raise awareness of the role of whiteness in upholding racial hierarchies
navigate the tensions inherent in racial justice work
recognise how the status quo reproduces itself
understand the impacts of racism in health and care.
Our anti-racism leadership development programme is supported by a handbook that presents the key, foundational ideas and concepts at the heart of the programme with journalling prompts and recommendations for further reading and watching.
Is the Activate programme for me?
This programme is designed for anyone working in health and care, who would like to adopt and develop an anti-racist approach to their leadership.
Programme team
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Simon Newitt
Senior Consultant -
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Professor Joy Warmington MBE
CEO, brap -
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Anne-Marie Archard
Senior Consultant -
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Lakshnie Hettihewa
Learning and Therapeutic Lead, brap -
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Julian Walker
Associate Consultant, brap -
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Naseem Farboud
Programme Co-ordinator
Modules
Pricing and dates
Cohort one
Wednesday 16 April 2025 – workshop one, all day
Wednesday 30 April 2025 – action learning set one, via Zoom, 11am-1pm
Wednesday 14 May 2025 – workshop two, all day
Thursday 29 May 2025 – action learning set two, via Zoom, 11am-1pm
Wednesday 11 June 2025 – workshop three, all day
Cohort two
Wednesday 17 September 2025 – workshop one, all day
Wednesday 1 October 2025 – action learning set one, via Zoom, 2-4pm
Wednesday 15 October – workshop two, all day
Thursday 29 October 2025 – action learning set two, via Zoom, 2-4pm
Wednesday 12 November 2025 – workshop three, all day
Price: £2,575
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