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Micro-aggressions in the Workplace
This half-day workshop is for professionals who want to develop the capacity for recognizing and responding appropriately and effectively to micro-aggressions at their place of work.
The session is also a valuable complement for attendees of recent workshops, Managing a Diverse Workforce and Recruitment for Diversity: Minimizing Bias in the Hiring Process.
Micro-aggressions are exclusionary, denigrating behaviors or signals that are often carried out outside the perpetrators conscious awareness. Although there can be subtle, coded ways to express intentional hostility or disdain without risking disciplinary action for flagrant discrimination, micro-aggressions are more often the unexamined, unacknowledged expression of an individuals biases toward people in excluded or marginalized identities or subordinate groups. Micro-aggressions are often trivialized or excused as being unintended, yet their messages are not-so-subtle and their impact can be very harmful to morale, the workplace climate, and the workers motivation to contribute and stay with the organization.
Attendees will:
- Increase their awareness and understanding of micro-aggressions
- Develop strategies for moving toward greater self-awareness
- Develop strategies for responding to micro-aggressions when they occur
- Identify strategies for coping with and healing from the impact of micro-aggressions
About the Presenters
Laura Branca is a managing partner at Training for Change (TFC) Associates, founded in Ithaca in 1982. She leads interactive trainings, designs courses and materials on organizational change, planning, leadership development, team building, communication, decision-making, handling conflict, diversity inclusion, equity, and building culturally competent agencies and coalitions. TFC Associates assists organizations and leaders through consulting, strategic planning, and coaching, and are skilled facilitators with special expertise in facilitating intra-group and cross-group dialogues on racism and intersecting forms of exclusion and oppression.
Laura is Board President and a co-owner of Moosewood, Inc. She is a Senior Fellow with the Dorothy Cotton Institute whose focus is human rights education and civic participation in non-violent social change. Laura has more than 30 years of experience teaching conflict management, helping people resolve interpersonal, multi-party, organizational, and community conflicts, and mediating for the Community Dispute Resolution Center.
Kirby Edmonds, a managing partner at Training for Change (TFC) Associates, has designed and delivered numerous workshops for counselors in the areas of basic counseling, group counseling and developing cultural competency. He has designed training workshops, written manuals, and provided consulting services for a wide variety of organizations and networks including UNICEF, NTEU, Corning, Inc., Pennsylvania Department of Health, AFL/CIO, Solidarity Center, and others. Kirby is expert at organizing and facilitating complex community planning processes and building managed networks based on shared values.
Kirby is a trained mediator with over 30 years experience managing and resolving interpersonal, multi-party, inter-organizational and community conflicts. He also teaches courses in conflict management and cooperative conflict resolution.
All registration sales are final.
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LocationBorg Warner Room, Tompkins County Public Library (View)
101 E. Green St.
Ithaca, NY 14850
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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