This interactive workshop helps participants identify and work through stereotypes and misinformation about other groups and learn effective ways to intervene when confronted with prejudicial jokes, remarks, and slurs. The model teaches that true diversity must include everyone. By confronting misinformation, workshop participants learn about other people and other groups. This helps to move us forward together. By listening to the stories of others, we change views, attitudes, and behavior.
Participants learn new ways to become effective allies for one another.
By learning how to build effective allies, we can break the traditional cycles of mistrust. Guilt, rigid politeness, unexpressed anger, and disappointment in others can keep prejudice in place. Welcoming and valuing diversity requires risk-taking and a willingness to make mistakes and clean them up. Generosity is the key to across-group relationships. Everyone has the capacity to lead the workplace in welcoming and valuing diversity.