Friday, November 18, 2022
9:00-10:30am
ZOOM LINK
Meeting ID: 850 5029 1233
Passcode: 303614
Empathetic communication skills are the foundation of Inclusion and Belonging. They are also vital for sustainable social change.
Indeed, writes bestselling author and professor Irshad Manji, communication skills constitute the most crucial element of an inclusive culture. When exercised well, they replace a transactional mindset that fixates on what people are (their labels) with relationships that bring out who people are (their multiple dimensions and paradoxes). Absent this context, DEI programs easily commodify us. Prof. Manji's antidote: the "Moral Courage Method" of communicating across divides.
On November 18, join Allison Gerrard, a Moral Courage Mentor, for a virtual Communication workshop that will teach us the idea, framework, and science of Moral Courage along with the Moral Courage Method of Communicating Across Divides. As participants, you'll draw from your own lives to explore the challenge of understanding and being understood in times of growing tension, high emotion, or deep division. You'll leave the workshop with a practical tool that reinforces the skills you've learned, which means your new skills will be actionable immediately.
Through this unique workshop, we'll all be poised to role-model what educators do best: turn divergent, even clashing, perspectives into opportunities to grow. Now more than ever, that's what our leadership teams, our staff, our students, and the public needs from us. It's time to move beyond inspiration to impact.
Allison is a Certified Moral Courage Mentor who teaches Diversity Without Division—a unifying alternative to traditional DEI programs. She also serves as the Director of Education and Training for the Moral Courage Project where she helps train and certify individuals from all walks of life to become Moral Courage Mentors. A scholar of behavioral science, she led the Hidden Talents Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah. She and her team studied the skills that youth develop in the face of adversity. Allison lives with her partner and three children in SLC, Utah.
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