ALT The graphic layout features a green header with gold text reading 'BIPOC-ONLY STRATEGIC SESSION.' Below, the main title 'NAVIGATING POWER WITHIN INSTITUTIONS' appears in large, bold letters. A grayscale portrait of a smiling person with dark hair pulled back is placed to the left of the name 'Yasmina Benslimane,' identified as the founder of Politics4Her & Climate Sirens. The word 'Guest speaker' is in gold underneath. A shorts phrase follows: 'Map the power you already hold, and learn how to protect and use it collectively.' At the bottom, the event date 'TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2026' is followed by the time information: 8:00 am ET | 1:00 pm WEST |2:00 pm CEST | 5:30 pm IST. The lower right corner displays the logo, a green circle with the words 'shared ground collective'. The background is a white cream colour.

ALT Green and cream-coloured infographic titled 'Strategic Session' followed by 'Navigating Power Within Institutions.' The sections are numbered and labeled: 1. Where do you actually sit? 2. Your power landscape. 3. How institutions contain you. 4. Protecting & building power. The sections include the following descriptions: 'Where do you actually sit in your organisation - and what does that mean for your power?' 'Access vs. influence. Visibility vs. safety. Individual vs. collective power.' 'How institutions manage, absorb, and neutralise those who challenge power from within' and 'Documentation as protection. Collective power outside the hierarchy. Knowing your non-negotiables.'. The session is scheduled for Tuesday, 29 September 2026, with the following times: '8:00 am ET | 1:00 pm WEST |2:00 pm CEST | 5:30 pm IST. The bottom notes the session is for racialised women and gender-diverse civil society practitioners. A logo with the text 'shared ground collective' is in the lower corner.

ALT Event announcement graphic for Shared Ground Collective's Sharing Space, on a cream background with dark green serif text. Header reads "Join our BIPOC only event: Sharing Space." Main title: "Privilege, Power, Intersectionality and Allyship." Below it: "For racialised gender-marginalised civil society practitioners. Facilitated by Hanieh Khosroshahi (she/her)." Centered underneath is the Shared Ground Collective logo — a dark green organic blob shape with the cream text "shared ground collective" and a small divide symbol. Footer text reads: "Tuesday 21 September 2026. 9:00 AM PDT | 12:00 PM EDT | 5:00 PM BST | 6:00 PM CEST."

ALT A dark green background features a centred block of text. Above it says in yellow letters 'BIPOC-ONLY EVENT STRATEGIC SESSION'. The heading below reads 'How can we build power within systems not designed for us?' in large cream-coloured letters, followed by a yellow subheading: 'Practical paths for navigating institutional power.' A smaller cream coloured text below reads: 'Map the power you already hold and learn how to protect and use it collectively.' The event description follows by saying: 'At our next Shared Ground Collective Strategic Session, Yasmina Benslimane will guide us through exactly this: understanding systemic barriers, protecting ourselves from tokenism and discrimination, and choosing how to act - whether that means infiltrating, organising, or building something new altogether'. The date and time are listed at the bottom: 'Tuesday 29 September 2026,' 8:00 am ET | 1:00 pm WEST 2:00 pm CEST | 5:30 pm IST' alongside the Shared Ground Collective logo.

ALT Cream and forest green promotional graphic for the Shared Ground Collective. Text at the top on a dark green background reads "STRATEGIC SESSION / NAVIGATING POWER WITHIN INSTITUTIONS" in large bold white letters with "STRATEGIC SESSION" in gold. Below, a black and white portrait photograph of Yasmina Benslimane, a young woman smiling, sits alongside her name in large dark green bold text and the description "Founder, Politics4Her & Climate Sirens" in italic. A gold divider line separates the content from the date bar at the bottom, which reads "MONDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2026 / 8:00 AM ET | 1:00 PM WEST | 2:00 PM CEST | 5:30 PM IST" alongside the Shared Ground Collective logo

ALT Event announcement graphic for Shared Ground Collective's Sharing Space, on a cream background with dark green serif text. Header reads "Join our BIPOC only event: Sharing Space." Main title: "Privilege, Power, Intersectionality and Allyship." Below it: "For racialised gender-marginalised civil society practitioners. Facilitated by Hanieh Khosroshahi (she/her)." Centered underneath is the Shared Ground Collective logo — a dark green organic blob shape with the cream text "shared ground collective" and a small divide symbol. Footer text reads: "Tuesday 21 September 2026. 9:00 AM PDT | 12:00 PM EDT | 5:00 PM BST | 6:00 PM CEST."

ALT Dark green event flyer for Shared Ground Collective. Text reads: BIPOC Only Event — Sharing Space. Regulating Your Nervous System and Preparing for Return to Work. Thursday 20 August, online. 1:00 PM BST | 2:00 PM CEST | 5:30 PM IST | 8:00 PM PHT. Who it's for: racialised, gender-marginalised civil society practitioners. Facilitated by Hanieh Khosroshahi (she/her). Cream brush-stroke circular badge with the Shared Ground Collective logo in the bottom right

ALT Dark green slide. Text reads: They talk of 'diversity' — The decisions still look the same. Representation is not the same as influence. Most organisations haven't noticed the difference. Here's what our first Learning Brief found and what to do about it. Logo of Shared Ground Collective in top right corner. Prompt at bottom: Swipe for more.

ALT Cream slide. Label at top: The Pattern. Title: Three ways the gap shows up every day. Point 1: Invited into the room — not into the decision. The agenda is set. The strategy is drafted. Then diverse staff are brought in: to validate, not to shape. Point 2: Representation as a metric, not a shift. The numbers improve. The culture doesn't. Targets are met while decision-making stays exactly as it was. Point 3: Informal power goes unmapped. The real decisions happen in corridors, WhatsApp groups, and quick chats before the meeting. Inclusion work never reaches those spaces. Footer: Learning Brief 'The Future of Inclusion.'

ALT Dark green slide. Label at top: What this looks like in practice. Title: Shifting from presence to influence. Point 1: Map decisions, not just diversity data. Ask: which meetings actually set direction? Are diverse voices in the room before choices are made, or after? Point 2: Find the informal power holders. The org chart isn't the real map. Inclusion work needs to reach the people who shape culture in corridors and pre-meetings — not just the formal hierarchy. Point 3: Stop relying on those most affected to fix it. When there's no formal channel, the people facing the problem end up carrying the labour of solving it. Build structural feedback mechanisms so they don't have to. Footer: Learning Brief 'The Future of Inclusion.'

ALT Dark green slide. Label at top: Your Turn. Question in large text: In your organisation — do people have a seat at the table, or just a seat in the room? Body text: The full Learning Brief goes deeper: DEI fatigue, why inclusion stays theoretical, and six organisational systems where it needs to be embedded instead. Call to action box with title: The Future of Inclusion: From Strategy to Organisational Practice. Label: Read the full Learning Brief. Link location indicated at bottom right: Link in caption.

ALT Instagram post from Shared Ground Collective on a forest green background. A pull quote in large italic cream text reads: "An organisation is only as strong as its most vulnerable staff members." Below, a mockup of the learning brief "The Future of Inclusion: From Strategy to Organisational Practice" is displayed with brushstroke accents. Footer text reads: "Drawing on expert input by Ama Afrifa-Tchie and practitioner experience from across international civil society."

ALT Last chance to sign up – Fair Share of Women Leaders online event on Wednesday, 20 May at 15:00 CEST | 13:00 UTC | 18:30 IST. Topic: Power and barriers to inclusion. Register now.

ALT A person is shown against a light blue background. Three text boxes are present. The largest box at the top contains the words 'Introducing our fourth speaker: Batanai Padya'. A smaller box to the right reads 'Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Lead at Christian Aid'. Another box below says 'Sign up for our event on May 20th!'. Decorative geometric shapes in red, yellow, and green are placed near the corners.

ALT A person wearing a blue shirt stands against a light blue background. Several text boxes appear: one at the top with bold black and light blue text that reads: "introducing the third speaker: Daniel Gyamerah", another on the left with a description of the speaker's role as "director and co-founder of the Zentrum für Data driven Empowerment, Leadership und Advocacy, and a third box at the bottom left with a text that says: "Sign up now for May 20th!". Decorative geometric shapes in green, yellow, and red are placed in the corners.

ALT Event announcement graphic for Shared Ground Collective on a cream background. Text reads: "Join our next strategic event — Decolonising Professionalism Through Matriarchal Values." A black-and-white portrait photo of a woman wearing a head wrap is shown on the left. To the right is the Shared Ground Collective logo in dark green. Below the photo, a white box reads: "with our guest speaker Dania Gharaibeh, Gender and inclusion expert." At the bottom: "Tuesday 9 June 2026 — 9:30 CEST | 10:30 AST | 9:30 CAT | 13:30 IST."