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Creating Welcoming Spaces Part 3

  • 4000 Northeast 26th Avenue Portland, OR, 97212 United States (map)

The third part of this lecture series will focus on creating welcoming environments. Learn from Diversity and Equity expert Dr. James Mason —and your neighbors through conversation.

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Limited to 30 people with social distancing

This series involves a didactic, interactive, and experiential personal development activity aimed at preparing people and communities for a more diverse world.  

Participants will: 

  1. Explore how implicit bias might be manifested and its potential consequences.

  2. Identify one’s biases, as well as one’s cross cultural strengths upon which new strengths and assets may be based.

  3. 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.

  4.  learn.

  5. Discover resources and approaches for ongoing development as it concerns becoming a resource for diversity in each environment or social setting.

Earlier Event: August 31
Interrupting Bias, Part 2 of 3
Later Event: August 10
Movies in the Park: Encanto