Embracing Differences Week
Culture Weavers presents Embracing Differences: Knowledge Sharing, Learning, Thinking, Reflecting
Spend some time during the week in thought-provoking virtual conversation, reading, writing, listening and meditation. Over the last few months, the Culture Weavers team has been compassionately and diligently working towards bringing awareness to unconscious bias and issues of inequity in the workplace. In light of recent events, and Dr. Crow’s call to action last week, the team has rapidly completed a program that had been planned for later this year. This is step one. Join us and create the momentum needed for change.
Friday
Call to Action
Let’s Open our Hearts and Minds
Heighten Awareness
Seek to Understand
Get involved
Speak up
Figure out Ways You Can Embrace Differences
UTO Voices - Black Roads
UTO Voices - Listen
ASU Event - ASU’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy presents, “Race, Crisis and the Future of Democracy” on June 13 and June 20
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
3 Ways to be a Better Ally in the Workplace
Supporting our Community
Where to Find Outstanding Food from Black-Owned Restaurants in Phoenix
United Way of Northern Arizona Aid to Hopi and Navajo
Navajo and Hopi Families Covid-19 Relief Fund
Support the Arizona Black Community
Did you participate in Embracing Differences Awareness Week? Let us know and leave a comment.
Thursday
Mindful Minutes, 12 to 12:15, https://asu.zoom.us/j/5094059399
What can your team do to raise awareness and launch meaningful discussions?
Have you discovered any personal unconscious biases and if so how were those revealed to you?
Add Your Input
Submit your stories, poetry, resources, images and more through this Google form, and we can include you on our resource page.
Wednesday
What Can You Do?
What Can We Do?
- Letter from Dr. Crow to the ASU Community (sent via email June 1)
- “…. I am asking that the deans engage in a college-by-college process and that the student leaders also engage in a process for specific new initiatives that we can undertake…. My hope is that we can take a good hard look at our own intellectual underpinnings here and ask ourselves, ‘are there things that we can do differently or designs that we can produce or teaching and learning that we can alter that can help produce new and better aspirational attainment for the goals of our country?’”
Career Edge Training for ASU
Explore
What can your team do to raise awareness and launch meaningful discussions?
Have you discovered any personal unconscious biases and if so how were those revealed to you?
Join the UTO Taking an Affirmative Stand Workstream - Slack Channel #uto-affirmative-stand
Tuesday
Mindful Minutes, 12 to 12:15, https://asu.zoom.us/j/5094059399
- What have you been learning about how you might do a better job of embracing differences?
- How do you feel differently today after watching The Privilege Walk video?
Monday
How Can We Become More Aware?
Why Embrace Differences?
Let’s explore a few points of view, a few facts, a few ideas, a few stories
When you get to the questions below please enter the Google Doc, adding your thoughts, your stories, your voice
Message from Dr. Crow to the ASU Community (sent via email June 1)
“So, here we are in 2020, painfully and acutely realizing that the long-held ideals of our nation, as embodied in the Constitution’s aspirations of the right to equal justice, the right to pursue happiness and the right to individual liberty, are, in fact, unfairly and inequitably distributed across our society. This, of course, has been a reality since the founding of our Republic and, although we have made progress through our struggles and our changes, it is nonetheless jolting to see these inequalities manifested through the unfair treatment of individuals based on their race and ethnicity by the very government designed to protect and defend their rights as citizens.”
Freedom Means it’s Okay to Be Different, an essay from UTO’s John Wilson
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