Leadership Goals: To gain a better understanding of the definition of diversity, personal cultural traits, and stereotypes to enhance your leadership abilities.
Defining Diversity
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Define diversity and explain its importance
- Explain the significance of appreciating difference among people and how diversity affects and shapes your relationships
Reflection Questions:
- Why is recognizing and appreciating people's similarities and differences important?
- What about your notion of diversity has changed?
- How can an individual learn more about people's cultural differences? What might be the impact of that learning?
Cultural Treasure Chest
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Define culture and list many facets of culture
- Better understand facets of culture, very visible and not so evident
- Investigate and identify valued aspects of your personal culture
Reflection Questions:
- What facets of culture are important to you?
- Can an individual know all about a person's culture just by looking at him or her?
- Why is it important to get to know your culture and the culture of others?
S & P Labeling Action
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Define stereotypes and prejudice and identify reasons that each exist
- Strengthen awareness of stereotyping in your schools, organizations, and communities.
Reflection Questions:
- Why do stereotypes and prejudices exist? How are they formed? Are individuals born with prejudiced ideas?
- Why is it important for leaders to be aware of their own biases, stereotypes and prejudices?
- What can leaders do to encourage others to accept difference and appreciate diversity?
- What can be you do to address stereotypes and prejudices in your school, organization, or community?
Race to the Wall!
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Explore institutional and cultural power in a very personal way.
- Deepen your understanding of how differential treatment flows from society's ranking of social identities
Reflection Questions:
- How did it feel to be in your position?
- How did it feel to have to let go of the hand of the person next to you?
- What did you notice about your reactions as the exercise progressed?
- What did you think and feel when you looked around at the end?
- Was there anything that surprised you about people's positions, including your own?
- What was you first reaction to the instruction: "Race to the wall"?
- What does the exercise show us?