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...
We cannot fix a problem if we refuse to see it. As a white woman born and raised in the Midwest in the 1980’s and 1990’s, I was taught to be colorblind. Racism, sexism, and discrimination were of the past. My Mother, a well-intentioned, single, and white, told me that...
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...
Stressed? Here are some ideas that can help. Back in 2017, we published an article called Work-Life Management: Practice Self-Care, which established the importance of caring for oneself. In it, we reiterated that in order to manage work and life successfully, women...
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