EMERGING CONVERSATIONS
OVERCOMING BIAS & FOSTERING INCLUSION PROGRAM
Enhancing awareness, deepening insights and identifying actions that create real change – personally and organizationally
The Overcoming Bias & Fostering Inclusion Program is an opportunity for people to come together in a process that allows for deeper learning about bias, and for identifying new opportunities for each person to contribute in even more impactful ways to the creation of a fully inclusive future environment.
GROUP SESSION PROCESS
The process starts from an important assumption: That you value diversity and full inclusion for yourself and others, that you wish to avoid (unintentional) bias, prejudice and stereotyping, and that you want to constructively contribute to creating/cultivating a world of full inclusion and equity for all.
With this as the starting point, the process engage in involves three moves:
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Enhancing awareness of biases, blind spots, and (un)intended “exclusions” of aspects of others’ identity and experience.
2.
Deepening insights and understanding of the impact of biases, blind spots, and (un)intended exclusions of aspects of other’s identify and experience.
3.
Identifying constructive, creative actions to promote fuller inclusion and equity that follow from our deeper insight and understanding.
The program is an opportunity to create an environment to listen and learn from each another how different forms of bias and exclusions – unintended or not – impact us. Participants leave these sessions with strategies on actively inviting a broader inclusive lens into their professional and personal life.
“The team at PeopleDynamics are fantastic! They have a way of making difficult conversations regarding EDIB and organizational beliefs and values more genuine and authentic. Our Leadership Team is better equipped as a result our their supports.”
INDIVIDUAL COACHING SESSION PROCESS
For change to take hold at the organizational and systemic level, we also need to address the role of change at a personal level.
Individual coaching conversations can be used to explore how leaders can embody the change they want to be in creating a more inclusive and diverse system. These individual inclusion-focused coaching and
development conversations also support leaders in preparing for conversations about inclusion, equity and race.
Conversation can include (but are not limited to):
1.
Coaching leaders who don’t feel
comfortable starting the conversation
themselves and are looking for
guidance/support.
2.
Engaging in candid 1:1 conversation with leaders on issues including bias, racism, and systemic discrimination.
3.
Helping leaders prepare to effectively lead conversations on race, allyship, bias and inclusion with their teams
The goal is to help leaders voice their personal beliefs, lived experiences and perspective in an environment of non-judgement and curiosity and to empower them with strategies on approaching this conversation with
colleagues and team members.
This program was designed as a response to hearing from leaders that there was a need to learn how to skillfully engage in meaningful conversations about inclusion that bring humility, vulnerability and courage center stage.
We have endeavored to create a space where we bring our expertise in conversational effectiveness to support leaders to be in a mode of inquiry about themselves and their experience and the impact it has on how they navigate and make sense of the world around them, including with their teams at work.