Assessing and Interrupting Bias, and Creating Welcoming Environments: A Three-Part Workshop
Aug. 24 and 31 and Sept. 8, 6 - 7:15 p.m.
Socially distanced. Limit of 30 participants. Attend one or all of the series.
The Alameda Neighborhood Association is proud to host Dr. James Mason a diversity, equity, and inclusion expert to lead a three-part community discussion on bias and creating welcoming environments.
As the U.S. moves deeper into the 21st century, people are more likely to encounter greater diversity in terms of neighbors, co-workers, classmates, and others. In the face of diversity, people often struggle with issues of implicit bias, or attitudes or perceptions (stereotypes) that unwittingly affect our views of and interactions with people at an unconscious level). These biases are deeply embedded in our cultural symbols and institutions. The first part of this series will focus on identifying our biases in order to promote justice and equity, and improve inter-cultural or -group interactions.
In order to relieve oppression and promote equity and inclusion, well intentioned people being assets for diversity need tools and strategies for gracefully intervening on behalf of diverse and vulnerable peoples to ensure respectful and harmonious cross-cultural interactions.
This series involves a didactic, interactive, and experiential personal development activity aimed at preparing people and communities for a more diverse world.
Participants will:
Explore how implicit bias might be manifested and its potential consequences.
Identify one’s biases, as well as one’s cross cultural strengths upon which new strengths and assets may be based.
Explore strategies for interrupting bias (e.g., micro-aggression and -insults) in ways that give unwitting offenders an opportunity to grow and reveal to the victims of bias that allies are present.
learn.
Discover resources and approaches for ongoing development as it concerns becoming a resource for diversity in each environment or social setting.
Dates:
Monday 8/24 - 6:00 - 7:15 PM
Monday 8/31 -6:00 - 7:15 PM
Tuesday 9/8 6:00 -7:15 PM
Location:
Outdoor event on 26th between NE Bryce St. and NE Dunkley St.
Attendance:
We will be limiting attendance to the first 30 people who register