1 Making a difference as an individual
Throughout the course, you’ve learned about how individual actions, whether conscious or unconscious, can make a difference to diverse groups.
In Activity 1, you’ll look back at some of the activities you’ve already completed in order to raise your personal awareness and consider where you need to focus on making a change.
Activity 1 Reflecting on your personal learning
Here’s a list of the activities you’ve already completed on your personal journey:
- Week 1, Activity 1 – Exploring acquired diversity [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]
- Week 1, Activity 2 – Exploring respect
- Week 1, Activity 4 – Diversity and inclusion benefits everyone
- Week 2, Activity 1 – Which type of discrimination?
- Week 2, Activity 2 – Exploring neurodiversity
- Week 2, Activity 3 – Black Lives Matter
- Week 2, Activity 4 – The Bechdel Test
- Week 3, Activity 1 – Which generation are you?
- Week 3, Activity 3 – Reflecting on assumptions
- Week 3, Activity 4 – Enhancing your own social capital
- Week 4, Activity 1 – Your own Unconscious biases
- Week 4, Activity 2 – Examples of microaggressions
- Week 4, Activity 3 – Time to reflect
- Week 5, Activity 1 – What skills do you need to support this agenda?
- Week 5, Activity 3 – Reflecting on the resilience video
- Week 5, Activity 4 – What is your motivation?
- Week 6, Activity 5 – Compare and contrast
- Week 6, Activity 6 – Have you ever felt like an imposter?
Reflecting on those activities, which were the most challenging? Where do you need to do the most work to improve? For example, you might need to enhance your awareness of your own unconscious biases, or focus on how you could be a better ally.
Comment
Self-awareness and self-education play an important role in facilitating our personal diversity and inclusion journeys and the impact we can choose to have in our workplaces.
As has hopefully come across clearly throughout the course, we all have biases and privileges, and we shouldn’t be afraid of admitting that. The key is to acknowledge them, try to understand them and make an effort to stop them from influencing the way we interact with people who are different from us.
An important theme running throughout this course, and something that we can all work on at a personal level, is allyship, and you’ll explore that in more detail next.