The Storied JEDI: Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

This is a 14-week on-demand program for cultivating a culture of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in your workplace through storytelling.

Objectives

• Recognize social justice is a journey, not a destination.

• Be conscious about the narratives you are hearing and telling.

• See diversity, equity, and inclusion as values that offer more possibilities, not restraints.

• Know how to engage in difficult conversations that need to be had.

• Lean into uncomfortability because that’s where the growth lies.

• Advancing Positive Narratives around Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

• Uncovering Unconscious Narratives that Send Dangerous Messages

• Establish Social Justice as the foundation for practicing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

• Build a lexicon for talking about JEDI so we have a shared vocabulary, which is key to engaging in honest dialogue.

• Examine the narratives we tell ourselves about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Become conscious of harmful narratives and language you may be using

• Exercise critical listening skills to perpetuate only the narratives that align with your values

• Exercising critical self-awareness to improve intercultural fluency

• Examining our own privilege to develop essential self-awareness.

• Recognizing that critical self-awareness is necessary to develop intercultural fluency.

• To improve our intercultural fluency, we first must examine what gets in the way: cultural harm.

• Common harmful responses and helpful responses to cultural harm

• Safe space v brave space

• Guidelines that facilitate difficult but necessary conversations

• Responding to the Explicit Harm of Implicit Bias, Prejudice, and Stereotypes

• The importance of placing impact before intention when addressing microaggressions

• This session looks at harm in the form of stereotypes, prejudice, and bias.

• These harms occur in everyday workplace conversations; we often hear them and let them pass because it’s awkward to interject.

• I will share simple responses that can be inserted into the conversation to address the harm and move forward.

• This session is all about owning your own wrongdoing and moving toward reconciliation.

• Each of us will cause harm, but just because it’s ubiquitous and inevitable doesn’t mean we should excuse ourselves.