Do you feel anxious when the topic of race comes up? Do you know what the words diversity, equity, and inclusion really mean? What is intersectionality? How do these words apply to our daily lives? Integrated Work is offering an interactive session to explore concepts related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Conversations that Keep Us Moving Forward
We lost an icon this week, but her legacy is one of purposeful forward motion, sometimes in baby-steps and sometimes by leaps and bounds. She was powerful and humble, and spent her life showing us the way… Let’s follow her example and take up the call to create conversations, all around us, that move the things that matter most forward…
The Importance of Cultural Humility
The diversity and inclusion concept of cultural humility is an instrument employed by institutions and organizations that seek to achieve cultural transformation. In her TEDx talk on Cultural Humility, Juliana Mosley challenges us to practice cultural humility so we may observe our own personal biases and collectively learn to embrace, appreciate, and live communally with those who are different from us.
The Messy Road to Social Justice
Being anti-racist and re-imagining a more just and equal world isn’t neat and tidy work, yet I know that fear of “doing it wrong” can hold us back from doing anything at all. If I’ve made any progress at all in my own journey over the years, it has come from making peace with that mess and from being more willing to do something imperfectly than to do nothing at all.
Resources on Racial Inequity and Anti-Racism
Staying informed, understanding, inviting others to the conversation, engaging in difficult and uncomfortable discussions are good places to start. Here are some resources that we’ve curated and were shared within our network…
Exploring Racial Inequity in Healthcare
Given the events of recent days, the team at Integrated Work continues to explore resources to deepen our collective understanding of the role of racism in our culture, and to help support meaningful conversations that can help us all make progress toward the creation of equity. Mike Biselli, who has been catalyzing a movement to reimagine healthcare, recently hosted a compelling podcast “Confronting Systemic Racism in Healthcare” featuring industry expert Duane Elliot Reynolds.
Standing in Solidarity Toward a More Perfect Union
Now is the time to forge real solutions born of deep listening to, and caring for, one another. Now is the time to acknowledge how deep the suffering must be to give rise to despair. Now, it is time to direct our anger at that suffering and its never-ending persistence, not at the symptoms of despair