Inclusive Conversations

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Creating Brave, Psychologically Safe Spaces

What if we first created brave spaces so that more people could feel safe speaking their truths?

 

In the introduction I shared an example of a situation where a leader asked me how he might have been brave in the moment. In a meeting where participants were encouraged to share their personal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) journeys, he shared a time when he upset an LGBTQ employee by mistakenly using the wrong terminology to refer to them (the employee’s preferred pronoun). His purpose for sharing this situation was to illustrate that we will make mistakes and can recover from them if we are willing to acknowledge and learn from them. As he was sharing the story, several in the ...