Strategy G: Incorporate creative activities addressing issues that are otherwise uncomfortable. Ensure time and opportunity for participants to process the discomfort.
Discomfort Objective: Create and promote a safe and inclusive environment in all settings (office, clinic, school, others). Theme: Infrastructure
Incorporate creative activities addressing issues that are otherwise uncomfortable. Ensure time and opportunity for participants to process the discomfort. Identify and utilize conversation starters and icebreakers to open discussion on this topic.
RESOURCES FOR STRATEGY #7
- Making Diversity Work on Campus: A Research-Based Perspective
- Cultural and Linguistic Competence Icebreakers, Exercises, Videos and Movies
- Teaching Tolerance: A Project of The Southern Poverty Law Center
- Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity
- Cultural and Family Values Exercise
- “What Is Systemic Racism?” Video Series
- Timely news events such as “Tim Cook Speaks Up”
- Why Pressuring Someone to ‘Educate” You About Their Struggles is Oppression, Not Understanding