Community Trainings

The KR Solution’s 2026 Community Trainings are designed to support nonprofit, public, and community-based organizations in building shared understanding, common language, and practical capacity around complex systems-level issues.

These trainings bring nationally recognized frameworks and facilitation models to the Omaha region, creating accessible opportunities for organizations to learn together, reflect deeply, and strengthen their internal alignment. Sessions are grounded in data, history, and lived experience, and are designed to move participants beyond individual awareness toward organizational and institutional readiness for change.

As a local host and capacity-building partner, The KR Solution convenes organizations across sectors to engage in learning experiences that are:

  • Research-based and nationally respected

  • Interactive and discussion-driven

  • Applicable to real organizational systems and decisions

  • Supportive of long-term culture and systems change

Community Trainings are ideal for boards, leadership teams, staff, and cross-organizational cohorts seeking a shared foundation for equity-centered work. Trainings are offered periodically and may serve as a prerequisite for deeper learning, strategic planning, or organizational change initiatives.

Current offerings include trainings facilitated by the Racial Equity Institute, including their Groundwater Approach and Phase I Workshops.

Groundwater Approach

Join KRS and facilitators from the Racial Equity Institute (REI) for a virtual interactive presentation on the nature and impact of structural racism: what it is, how it operates, and why it continues to shape outcomes across institutions.

Using research and data, participants examine common narratives around racial disparities and explore why individual-level explanations (such as poverty, education, behavior, or culture) fail to fully explain persistent racial inequities. Instead, the training focuses on the systemic and institutional forces that produce and maintain unequal outcomes.

This session helps participants:

  • Understand what institutional and structural racism look like in practice

  • Use data to identify and measure the systemic impact of racism

  • Learn how to track institutional change over time

  • Build a shared language for discussing racial inequity across sectors

This training serves as the foundation for deeper learning and action. This training is also a prerequisite for REI’s Phase I training, which explores the historical creation and institutionalization of racism across U.S. systems.

REI Groundwater Training Dates
March 31, 2026 (virtual)
June 30, 2026 (virtual)

Duration
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM Central

Phase I
Workshop

Join KRS and facilitators from the Racial Equity Institute (REI) for a two-day workshop that deepens participants’ understanding of racism as a systemic, institutional, and historical construct.

Through a structured and evidence-based framework, participants explore how racism was created, how it has been embedded in U.S. institutions and culture, and how it continues to shape outcomes today. Even those already engaged in equity work are often challenged to reconsider how racial disparities persist across systems despite good intentions.

This workshop helps participants:

  • Shift the focus from individual prejudice to structural and institutional analysis

  • Understand how history, culture, systems, and policy interact to produce racial inequities

  • Identify the root causes of persistent racial disparities

  • Develop a shared analysis and common language for addressing inequity within their organization

Phase I provides participants with a systemic understanding of racism and the tools to pursue meaningful, sustained institutional change.

REI Phase I Training Dates
September 28-29, 2026 (in-person)
December 10-11, 2026 (virtual)

Daily Duration
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Central (in-person in September)
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Central (virtual in December)

Registration

Frequently Asked Training Questions

Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ or contact Krystal Rice directly.

    • The Phase I Workshop is two full days (8 hours each day) with many small breaks and a full lunch break.

    • The participant count is capped at a firm 35 with a minimum of 15 for maximum engagement.

    • Phase I In-person training is offered in September and a virtual option is available in December.

    • KRS will send registrants their Zoom links one week prior to the virtual training date.

    • This half-day presentation (3 hours) will offer several breaks.

    • The Presentation is capped at 100 participants.

    • Only virtual options are available for 2026 through KRS.

    • The virtual trainings are conducted via Zoom, with only one participant per registration. Multiple people cannot share a screen.

    • KRS will send registrants their Zoom links one week prior to the virtual training date.

  • For virtual trainings, it is a requirement for each participant to have a working video camera and working audio to participate.

  • It is imperative that participants understand their commitment is to stay on the whole time of the service, with their cameras on.

    • REI’s services are education-based, and they believe solutions are contained in understanding the problem, or as they say, “diagnosis determines treatment.” The lack of identification of solutions stems from misidentifying causal factors, not being unaware of next steps.

    • Trauma is real. REI believes it is their job to prevent and end it. It is not their job to treat it. REI trainers are not therapists and are not there to work out personal problems or issues during workshops. They are there to share with participants the information they believe is important to become problem solvers so that participants might take their place in the movement for racial justice.