Inclusive Conversations

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First Learn How to Talk to Yourself

Spend time in intentional self-reflection to enhance self-understanding and gain clarity on your values, beliefs, assumptions, biases, and judgments.

 

The ability to engage in inclusive conversations is a skill to be developed and honed. It is a necessary ingredient for cultural competence—a continuous learning process to gain knowledge and understanding of your own and other cultures, to be able to discern cultural patterns for more effective problem solving, decision-making, and conflict resolution. The journey to developing cultural competence includes three key skills that start with self-understanding after which you should focus on understanding your cultural “others.” Once you develop ...