Vulnerability is putting yourself out there without the expectation of reciprocation. Vulnerability is necessary when having conversations with people that don’t look like us, behave like us, or seem to have a lot in common with us. That is precisely why...
You cannot keep doing the same thing expecting different results The definition of insanity is doing the same thing, over and over, and expecting a different result. A lot of times we do things unconsciously that have been modeled for us by previous generations....
NOT Sympathy Empathy is the ability to identify and understand another person’s situation without judgment, the full acceptance of their story. You have not lived their situation to be able to relate to it. Sympathy, by contrast, is projecting a feeling of less...
Taking on the perspective of others is a critical DEI skill. Rather than pretending to be someone else, try instead to find out what perspective they might have, and is most important when it is different from your perspective. Perspective taking is defined as trying...
Barriers that cause withdrawal from the DEI conversation As humans, we fear what we don’t understand. This fear can feel very real for people. There are three main categories of fear leading parents, caregivers, and educators to withdraw from the DEI conversation. The...
Address Your Unconscious Bias to Foster DEI We all are a product of our lived experiences. This means that our early childhood moments, moments in adolescence, coming of age times, and our adulthood experiences paint a canvas of our normalized behaviors, our...
