Working With Differences is a training in inclusive leadership skills. The program design and learning goals are customized to your group's needs and culture.  

What participants learn 
Awareness of Blind Spots

• Understand how fear can drive our behavior and causes unwanted impacts
• Become aware of the dynamics of bias, internalized bias and microaggressions
• Address bias through intervening in patterns of thinking underlying behavior  
• Learn how to receive feedback in order to gain new insights of blind spots

Self-regulation

• Learn skills for self-regulating emotions in order to stay engaged in a difficult conversation
• Learn how to manage own judgement, feeling “right”, contempt, fear, anger, and shame
• Learn the role of mindful self-compassion in enabling connection across differences

Create equity and manage power differentials

• ​Increase awareness and deepen empathy for the struggles of all people, especially with whom we have the most differences.
• Understand the human impulses that drive us to unconsciously put oneself in power-Up positions while putting others in power-Down positions.
• Learn skills to repair and connect after a microaggression occurs 
• Become aware of how privilege operates in everyday interactions
• Practice how to create equity in interpersonal dynamics and address power differentials  

Social identity development

• Increase awareness of how systems of inequity are internalized in our own thoughts and behavior in ways that can get in the way of our effectiveness as change agents
• Be able to distinguish between acting as an individual and acting as a member of a social identity
• Learn about stereotype threat, how it can operate in any individual and how to bounce back

To learn more, contact us for a conversation to discuss your needs

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