Engage with lived experiences and identities that have often been denied a public voice. Consider the nuanced contexts of race, gender, class, language, ability, and how these impact your position as a leader and creator. You’ll question what it means to reclaim your narrative of yourself and to engage with the strength of vulnerability as a leader and creator. In a creative exercise, you’ll engage with multiple perspectives on a past conflict and use this reflection to practice perspective-taking and listening that can generate creative work and deepen leadership skills for empathy, listening and engaging in multicultural workplaces.
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Engage active listening towards others’ life stories with empathy and curiosity.
Identify the interaction between sociocultural and interpersonal dynamics in life stories.
Value our own life experiences and identities as leaders and creators.
Skills you will gain
- inclusion
- diversity
- Communication
- Creative Writing
- Leadership
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Questioning stories — How Stories Function in Society
Critical Witnessing, Vulnerability and Stories
Stories Hidden Within Structures and Systems
Stories that Move Us Into Questioning, Into Action
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