This workshop will include:

1. The opportunity to reflect and welcome diversity
2. The teaching of skills to encourage individual intitiative
3. Guidance on how to influence change within your sphere of influence
4. Information on the important role diversity champions play
5. Reflections on the negative implications of bullying and harassment
6. Development of the leadership skills necessary to reduce and eliminate prejudicial behaviour
7. Exposure to a range of activities to open up delegates thinking and to increase their knowledge base
8. The demonstration of a model that uses tools of healing and compassion to reduce prejudice, whilst simultaneously increasing individual responsibility and intergroup cooperation
9. Reflection upon a range of discrimination issues through a experiential format, which provides information and presents issues in an interactive and personal way, inspiring participants to build relationships which reach beyond their daily interactions
10. The introduction of a consistent theoretical basis for understanding the sources of bigoty and the impact of group mistreatment
11. Teaching of how to handle oppressive jokes, comments and slurs

Methodology:
Misinformation, or lack of information, about other groups is at the root of stereotypes and prejudicial attitudes. These stereotypes are reduced by activities demonstrating that everyone is good. The workshop teaches an inclusive approach - training participants to be advocates on behalf of all groups by addressing a wide range of diversity issues including: race, gender, age, class, religion, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, job and life circumstances. Participants gain new information about others, and build unity across group lines, as a result of sharing personal stories of mistreatment. Participants also gain new insights to enable them to become powerful allies on behalf of one another.

The sharing of stories is followed by skills training activities to ensure that participants back up their newly gained insights with concrete day-to-day leadership skills and actions. The workshop uses participatory activities which include: pair and small group activites, discussion and experience sharing in the large group; and the demonstration of new techniques and skill practice. We create an upbeat tone that increases safety and participation. Participants are always welcomed to share - but are never coerced or required to speak in the group.
 
Who for:
• Managers across the public, private and third sector who wish to respond to prejudicial behaviours
• People who wish to respond constructively to prejudicial behavious
• Third sector workers, volunteers, private and public sector workers who wish to better understand and respond to diversity

Learning Outcomes:
• Improved understanding of diversity issues
• Guidance upon the important role diversity champions play within an organisation
• Development of new influencing and leadership skills to eliminate prejudice • Improved understanding of how to respond negative language

Date: 29 September 2009
Time: 09:30– 16:30
Venue: Derwent Stepping Stones
Cost: £125.00
Discount: 50% Discount for Third Sector Organisations
Delivered by: Val Carpenter, The Diversity Hub