The following activity is particularly useful when working with participants who don’t know one another very well. “My Fullest Name” Source: Awareness Activities, Critical Multicultural Pavilion Social identity includes affinities one has with other people, values and norms that one accepts, and the ways one has learned to behave in social settings.
Personal identities include an individual’s name, unique characteristics, history, personality and other traits that make one different from others. Though participants are encouraged to discuss what they have learned and share reflections on conversations, it is important to keep names and individual experiences private.Įveryone has a personal and social identity. Confidentiality. Each participant within the community needs to feel that he/she/they can trust that what is shared with peers will not be shared outside of the group.One voice, all ears. When one person speaks, everyone else listens.Facilitators should encourage the participant to take responsibility for his/her own experience rather than projecting it onto fellow participants. When a member of the community speaks of personal experience or feelings, it is of utmost importance that he/she/they uses the “I” statement. “I” Statements. It is critical to draw a line between individual experience and communal experience to prevent alienating someone whose experience may be different.Facilitators should ask their team what respect means to them. Respect. Though this term is used widely, “respect” means different things to different people.Online MSW Curriculum Snapshot expand_more.Online MSW Optional Program Tracks expand_more.Online Master of Social Work (MSW) Curriculum.Online Doctorate of Social Work (DSW) expand_more.This was a very exciting and helpful workshop!” The event was funded by the UConn Reads Steering Committee, as part of the campus-wide focus on race in America. However, I have struggled in the past to find the correct words and examples to share with my friends of “non-color” to help them understand white privilege. One participant, Coleen Spurlock, stated afterwards “As the white mother of a bi-racial family, I am acutely aware of my white privilege. In being willing to examine and talk about deeply embedded, cultural patterns that divide us, the Graduate School hopes to build a stronger and more diverse campus community. Foremost among the suggestions were to listen more and to show-up in support of racial justice. After a break for lunch, the group reconvened to discuss actions that those who carry privilege can take to challenge it. Participants shared examples of privilege in their own lives before the discussion moved on to examine effects of white privilege. Participants initially discussed what white privilege is and why people might take issue with the term ‘privilege’. The event was targeted to UConn staff members who interact regularly with the graduate student population, and it was skillfully facilitated by Maura Hallisey, of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford. On Monday January 11, The Graduate School hosted a salon-style discussion on the topic of white privilege. Privilege is hard to see when you have it, because it often consists of what doesn’t happen to you.
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