Inclusive Conversations
Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging across Differences
Mary-Frances Winters
- 192 pages
- English
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Inclusive Conversations
Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging across Differences
Mary-Frances Winters
About This Book
"What is impressive is not only how Winters builds a case for the urgency and need for bold, inclusive conversations but that she also gives specific strategies and competencies to turn her theory into practice.
-Dr. Sheila Robinson, publisher and CEO, Diversity Woman Media Effective dialogue across different dimensions of diversity, such as race, gender, age, religion, or sexual orientation, fosters a sense of belonging and inclusion, which in turn leads to greater productivity, performance, and innovation. Whether in the workplace, faith communities, or educational settings, our differences can tear us apart rather than bring us together if we do not know how to communicate. Recognizing our collective responsibility to earnestly address our differences and increase understanding and empathy will not only enhance organizational goals but will also lead to a healthier, kinder, and more compassionate world. Award-winning diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant Mary-Frances Winters has been leading workshops on what she calls Bold, Inclusive Conversations for years. In this book she offers specific dialogue strategies to foster greater understanding on the following topics:
Recognizing the importance of creating equity and sharing power
Dealing with the "fragility" of dominant groups--their discomfort in engaging with historically subordinated groups
Addressing the exhaustion historically marginalized groups feel from constantly explaining their different lived experience
Exploring how to build trust and create psychologically safe spaces for dialogue
This guide is comprehensive for anyone who wants to break down the barriers that separate us and facilitate discussions on potentially polarizing topics.
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- ABIDE (advancing belonging, inclusion, diversity, equity), 109, 148
- Accessibility, 148
- #Actsofinclusion, 151
- Affirmative action, 72, 148
- African American athletes, 106
- African American women, hairstyles of, 117, 137ā138, 140, 143, 144
- African American workers, discrimination against, 50, 107
- African Americans, 91ā93, 134. See also Whitesplaining
- code-shifting and, 49
- collectivism and, 28
- and conversations shutting down when race is brought up, 104ā105
- demonstrating empathy for, 103ā104
- fear and anxiety, 70ā71
- fragility and, 78ā80
- āliving while Black,ā 70
- microaggression against, 138, 143ā144
- and the N-word, 93, 94
- power differences and interactions with whites in workplace, 60ā62
- and the racial binary, 125
- racial identity, race consciousness, and, 37ā38, 70ā71, 124, 125, 128, 133
- religion and, 119, 126
- slavery, indentured servitude, and, 126ā127
- āteaching,ā 144
- violence against, 13, 73, 74, 90, 103, 127
- Agency, 60, 129
- āAggressivenessā and gender, 50ā51
- Aguilar, Leslie, 95
- Albrecht, Karl, 71, 72
- Allies, 15, 53
- Allyship, 92, 146
- defined, 53
- Anxiety. See Fear(s)
- Apartheid, 63, 89, 90
- Autonomy, fear of loss of, 71
- Baby boomers, 110
- Barr, Rosanne, 84, 127
- Bell, W. Kamau, 130, 134
- Belonging, 6, 109
- definitions, meanings, and nature of, 109, 110, 111t, 148
- diversity-inclusion scenario and, 111t
- drivers of, 110, 112f
- fostering, 111t, 112ā122, 112f
- gender pronouns and, 150
- inclusion and, 23, 112, 115, 117, 148
- race and, 125
- small comments that create a sense of, 138
- uniqueness (value of) and, 115, 115f, 11...