From "Knowledge" to "Action": Implementing LGBTQ+ Initiatives Born from Workplace Challenges
Pride House Tokyo, in collaboration with sponsoring companies, conducted a practical program for LGBTQ+ initiatives. This program focuses on fostering "active bystanders" to translate knowledge into concrete actions in the workplace, addressing real-world challenges.
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Pride House Tokyo, a specified non-profit organization (hereinafter, Pride House Tokyo), implemented a "Joint Learning and Practice Program" with its sponsoring companies for fiscal year 2025. Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP), also a sponsoring company, provided the venue.
## 1. Fostering the Ability to Act as an Ally: A Practical Program Born from Workplace Struggles
The joint program for fiscal year 2025 adopted the theme "Increasing Active Allies." It went beyond merely understanding LGBTQ+ initiatives as knowledge, focusing instead on "practice"—how to translate that knowledge into concrete actions in the workplace.
The central theme of this program was the development of "active bystanders"—individuals who can appropriately intervene as third parties when faced with inappropriate workplace remarks or actions (microaggressions), thereby maintaining a safe and secure environment.
*An LGBTQ+ ally refers to someone who understands and respects the diversity of sexual orientation and gender identity, and supports individuals within the community.
## 2. A Platform for "Dialogue" and "Learning" Co-created by Diverse Companies
This program was jointly developed through a "pro bono" collaboration, where volunteer members from participating companies, resonating with Pride House Tokyo's vision, applied their accumulated internal knowledge to a social cause.
- **Sharing Insights on ERG Activities to Connect Organizations:** Specific mechanisms (advanced case studies) for linking Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) across multiple companies within organizations of tens of thousands of people, and for revitalizing their activities, were shared.
- **Process and Passion for Internal Penetration:** A talk session focused on the conflicts faced by those in charge during tool formulation and internal awareness campaigns, their efforts to involve others, and their underlying "passion."
## 3. Practical Workshop: "5 Actions" You Can Use Starting Tomorrow
Participants learned how to respectfully engage with "unconscious microaggressions" that lurk in daily life through role-playing workshops simulating actual workplace scenarios.
In particular, the five behavioral guidelines (5D) for active bystanders were organized as the Japanese "So-Ba-Ni-I-Te" actions to facilitate a concrete shared understanding.
**So**: (So-rasu) — **Di**stract attention
**Ba**: (Ba-cchiri) — **D**ocument (remember clearly)
**Ni**: (Ni-geru) — **D**irectly intervene (run together)
**I**: (I-ma) — **De**legate (intervene immediately)
**Te**: (Te) — Ask for **H**elp (lend a hand)
Participants articulated these five specific approaches according to the context of their respective workplaces.
## 4. Participant Outcomes: Insights Leading to Action
To prevent secondary damage from inappropriate remarks during the workshop,
## 1. Fostering the Ability to Act as an Ally: A Practical Program Born from Workplace Struggles
The joint program for fiscal year 2025 adopted the theme "Increasing Active Allies." It went beyond merely understanding LGBTQ+ initiatives as knowledge, focusing instead on "practice"—how to translate that knowledge into concrete actions in the workplace.
The central theme of this program was the development of "active bystanders"—individuals who can appropriately intervene as third parties when faced with inappropriate workplace remarks or actions (microaggressions), thereby maintaining a safe and secure environment.
*An LGBTQ+ ally refers to someone who understands and respects the diversity of sexual orientation and gender identity, and supports individuals within the community.
## 2. A Platform for "Dialogue" and "Learning" Co-created by Diverse Companies
This program was jointly developed through a "pro bono" collaboration, where volunteer members from participating companies, resonating with Pride House Tokyo's vision, applied their accumulated internal knowledge to a social cause.
- **Sharing Insights on ERG Activities to Connect Organizations:** Specific mechanisms (advanced case studies) for linking Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) across multiple companies within organizations of tens of thousands of people, and for revitalizing their activities, were shared.
- **Process and Passion for Internal Penetration:** A talk session focused on the conflicts faced by those in charge during tool formulation and internal awareness campaigns, their efforts to involve others, and their underlying "passion."
## 3. Practical Workshop: "5 Actions" You Can Use Starting Tomorrow
Participants learned how to respectfully engage with "unconscious microaggressions" that lurk in daily life through role-playing workshops simulating actual workplace scenarios.
In particular, the five behavioral guidelines (5D) for active bystanders were organized as the Japanese "So-Ba-Ni-I-Te" actions to facilitate a concrete shared understanding.
**So**: (So-rasu) — **Di**stract attention
**Ba**: (Ba-cchiri) — **D**ocument (remember clearly)
**Ni**: (Ni-geru) — **D**irectly intervene (run together)
**I**: (I-ma) — **De**legate (intervene immediately)
**Te**: (Te) — Ask for **H**elp (lend a hand)
Participants articulated these five specific approaches according to the context of their respective workplaces.
## 4. Participant Outcomes: Insights Leading to Action
To prevent secondary damage from inappropriate remarks during the workshop,