Suggestions for Practice

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• Encourage diversity and inclusion at all times, in some way.
• Seek or deepen relationships with people different from you (race, age, background, political leaning).  
• Regularly volunteer for career days at elementary, middle and high schools with the students we need in our professions (your professional association likely has some resources/materials).  
• Employ VEN [Visualize, Examine and Normalize] to mitigate implicit bias:  
  • Visualize – if something automatically pops up, imagine a different option (ex: imagining a ‘pilot’ gives you a tall, white male, mentally replace with short, Native American person)   
  • Examine – Self-examination with candor  
  • Normailze – make diversity the norm in your life, challenge what you consider ‘normal’, surround yourself with people who do not look like you

Suggestions to Dismantle Discriminatory Systems:

• Set intentional goals, create a culture for candid discussion/feedback/ideas.
• Starting place: the heart, the head, the hands. 
  • Heart – safe space to share how they feel and WHY they feel that way. 
    • Everyone may not agree, but hear and endeavor to understand.
    • Develop connection- meaningfully connect, if not possible…empathize, if not possible…understand, if not possible, sympathize…if not possible, appreciate 
  • Head – collaborate on ideas, strategies, options for actions. 
  • Hands – develop action steps for accountability, what we can do 
• Get data, accept it, address it 
• Ensure collaboration and collective ownership 
• Be explicit about the why (to sustain), consider a vision statement to revisit regularly 
• Leverage the camaraderie of inclusion vs. fighting bias  
• Involve students, many perspectives 
• Regular Review:
  • Admissions
  • Curricula
  • Policies
  • Programs 
• Practice re-framing questions 
• Practice de-escalating without backing down 
• Moving from examination (window) to self-reflection (mirror) 
• Take responsibility as an entity and individual 

Suggestions for Cultural Humility

• 3 Things to Know: Cultural Humility
• Cultural Competency A Paradigm Shift in the Cultural Competence versus Cultural Humility Debate

Self-talk: Set or reset yourself

• I can be uncomfortable to make all students/colleagues/people we serve and EVERYONE comfortable.
• I want to be inclusive and have much to learn. 
• Correction and error will help me get to my goal of inclusivity. 
• This is not about me and my intent. 
• Am I in a learning posture? Or defending something (what?)? 

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