This training teaches skills for analyzing and responding to microaggressions and other common expressions of racial bias. Through exercises, role plays and using Human In Common’s communication templates, participants develop skills that support respectful and equitable interactions which can improve workplace culture.
Topics include:
● Community Agreements for respectful engagement
● Reflective listening
● The Bystander Effect
● Human In Common’s Ethical Upstander Toolkit, which includes
- Microaggressions Analysis
- Following-Up Template to support those targeted
- Calling-In Template for engaging in dialogue with those who have caused harm
- Apology exercises
- Language to address racism
- Direct and indirect strategies for interrupting racism in the workplace
● Allyship dos and don’ts
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
● Identify at least 4 inhibitors of active bystander intervention
● Identify at least 4 promoters of active bystander intervention
● Identify at least 4 commonly targeted social identity groups
● Identify 4 steps for analyzing common microaggressions
● Identify at least 4 statements to explain why a comment is racially biased
● Identify at least 4 examples of the impact of microaggressions
● Identify at least 4 statements to effectively follow up with someone who has been harmed by microaggressions
● Identify at least 4 statements to effectively call in those who express microaggressions
● Identify at least 4 steps to an effective apology
● Identify two strategies for indirectly responding to microaggressions
● Apply indirect strategies for interrupting racism in the workplace
