This week, I want to share key strategies for facilitating trainings and content in an inclusive manner. In considering what it means to facilitate inclusively, I want to take into account a few dynamics that exist in almost all DEI learning spaces: power, partiality, and polarization.
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Next week I am going to a small county in the Appalachian Mountains near Knoxville, Tennessee with an organization called Appalachian Service Project. On this trip, I will be chaperoning a group of high schoolers, and we will be assigned a house project to work on for the week for a family in need in the community. I’m nervous.
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This past weekend, Robert F. Smith, a billionaire investor and philanthropist, gave a speech at Morehouse College’ graduation ceremony that changed the graduating students’ lives. He announced that his family would set up a grant to pay off student loans for this entire class of graduates. His gift totals $40 million.
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Its 2019, and at this point, most people probably know that language matters. Words have the power to inspire, to shut down, to create and overcome conflict, but perhaps most importantly, words can invite us into alternative imaginations, new possibilities for how the world could and should look.
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Last week, at the Forum on Workplace Inclusion, my colleagues and I led a seminar called “Working through Whiteness” in which we asked participants to do three things; reflect on who you are and what it means for you to be white, listen to the experiences of others who do not share that experience, and take accountability for your own learning, your own actions, and your history.
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