Description: Participants will understand that each person has many intersecting identities, conferring different degrees of privilege and oppression in different social contexts. Because of this, individuals often share, emphasize or deemphasize certain identities in different spaces. This can perpetuate pain, isolation, and oppression. It can also prevent organizations, institutions, and communities from benefiting from the [...]
Public Narrative: The Story of Self
Description: Participants will understand that the story of self communicates the key formative experiences that shaped you and “the values that are calling you to act.” A story of self is built around one or two key “choice points,” moments of large consequence in your life when you faced a challenge of some kind, made [...]
What’s in Your Fishbowl?
Description: All people have culture. Participants will understand that culture goes beyond race, ethnicity or social identity. There may be aspects of our cultures that have been invisible to us for certain periods of our lives, or even still, because we have been swimming in them all our lives. The cultural spaces we are raised [...]
Starting with Values
Description: Participants will understand values as principles/concepts tied to actions, the connection between personal values and public actions, and the role of personal investment in change work. Starting with ValuesDownload