The more my world is shaped by my focus on decoloniality and deconstructing the conditioning society forced on me, the more I have learned about nervous system regulation, identity exploration, and self-expression. I no longer seek to be good, to be perfect, to be right. I seek to be authentic and principled and committed to doing the work needed for liberation of all people.
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In this series, we invite individuals and practitioners from various fields to share their perspectives on how Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice has supported them and their work. This post is excerpted from Dr. Jennifer Mullan’s book released this week: Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice.
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Organizations are experiencing an unprecedented rate of turnover, and with it, losing money, institutional knowledge, and in some cases, reputation. Many of these losses could be pre-empted by tuning into a resource you probably already have available: input from employees. My top piece of advice to organizational leaders in this unique moment: Don’t allow employee frustrations to fester. As we work with organizations on their DEIJ journeys, we see this happening in several ways.
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For executives further along in their equity and inclusion journey, recent events and today’s socio-political climate may be prompting a question they are not accustomed to grappling with — particularly if they have faced relatively few barriers to career advancement: “Am I qualified for this role?” The ability to understand and work effectively with others across cultural differences is a critical skill; lacking it ought to be seen as an underqualification for anyone tasked with leading a diverse workforce. It is a result of white supremacy that it has not always been understood that way.
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Many organizations are currently scurrying to leverage the current racial justice momentum to engage senior leaders in this work. Let me first affirm—this segment of work is important to much broader systemic change. I believe that learning, unlearning, relearning are critical paths towards disrupting systems and reimagining new ones…. AND I believe that if we’re not mindful of how we curate and facilitate spaces that seek to engage us down this path, we can end up causing more harm than good.
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