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Utilizing Difficult Dialogues to Promote Inclusivity
Linda R. Mona, Ph.D.Licensed Psychologist
Inclusivity Clinical Consulting ServicesFounder and President
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Packing Your Inclusivity Tool Kit
Dr. Mona on identity and context
Why promote difficult dialogues?
Power in valuing intersecting identities
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Intersectionality persists in all of who we are and everything we do
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Work place inclusivity is easy!
Talk about it and all will listen!
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Work place inclusivity is easy!
Talk about it and all will want to understand!
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Work place inclusivity is easy!But try to talk about disability or illness with your employees, and it isn’t so easy…
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Don’t worry, I won’t get into it, but just trust me…
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Work place inclusivity is easy!But trying to talk about disability or illness with your employees working, living, and coping with disability, and it isn’t so easy
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Work place inclusivity is easy!And when you try and make it easy, this is what happens….. Rabbit ears behind your head
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Let’s talk Science:Increasing Brain Capacity Feeling safe allows the brain to make new
connections and manage difficult emotions Threats shut down learning through its control of
emotional control
Mindful Awareness Changes your brain! Leads to better communication with diverse
people and awareness of common threads that motivate toward common goals
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White
Female
Disabled
White
Male
Single Parent
Caregiverfor
Father
Latina
Student
Married
ERGs and Organizational Values
Location and Time Flexibility
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Disabled
Single Parent
Caregiverfor
Father
ERGs and Organizational Values
Location and Time Flexibility
Student
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Identity and ERG Self-Selection
Employee-centered approaches to group formation
The use of “Big Data” by IT
Self-defined Values vs. externally defined stereotypes
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Identity within Context
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The Co$t of Indifference
Self-Assessment mediates indifference
Misalignment of employee and company values
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Tools for Inclusivity Tool Kit
Consciously surrender to difference and discomfort
Stop devaluing the feeling of tension
Don’t just say it, do it! Words are a behavior but action is the movement that shows commitment to being an ally
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Call On Us!
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Linda R. Mona, Ph.D. Marsha N. Sargeant, Ph.D.
