Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Agenda

Session Outcomes

• To gain experience and comfort with discussing DEI-related topics
• To develop a better understanding of your own implicit biases
• To understand how you can leverage your position/resources towards DEI efforts
• To grow relationships with the individuals that make up this group

Choose a group member to facilitate today’s discussion (preferably someone who did not lead the last session).  Choose another group member to serve as a timekeeper, in order to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to share during the session.

10 minutes:                             
Icebreaker.  Everyone is invited to share about a New Year’s resolution or goal.

45 minutes:                             
Sharing.  Starting with some definitions for DEI:

• Diversity is the presence of differences in gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status. 
• Equity ensures that everyone has access to the same opportunities and recognizes that advantages and barriers exist, and that, as a result, we all don’t start from the same place. 
• Inclusion happens when people with different identities feel and/or are valued, leveraged, and welcomed within a given setting.

​Implicit bias (social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness) may negatively influence one’s decisions and be a barrier to DEI efforts. Training to understand and mitigate one’s implicit biases should be the first step in harmonizing our efforts with the department’s DEI mission.

If you haven’t already, take a few minutes to discuss your experience with the Implicit Association Test (IAT). Please note, there is no need to share your IAT results with your group.  Here are some suggestions to get the conversation started:

• Did the results of your IAT raise any interesting points or bring any new perspectives for you?  For example, did you become aware of any biases in your life, either personally or professionally?
• Did you agree with your IAT results? Why or why not?
• Since taking the test, did you notice any shifts in your awareness of your own implicit biases?    
• Do you see any opportunities to combat implicit bias in your workplace?  Consider clinical, research, education, administrative domains.

**If you have not already, we strongly encourage you to complete the DEI Champion Training

Final 5 minutes:                       
Wrap up.  Offer gratitude to the group for listening, sharing, supporting.  The next meeting will be in March - please use this time to decide on a date/time for that meeting and designate someone to communicate this information to Michelle Lifto.

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