Storying the Self: (Re)Claiming our Voices
About Course
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.
Course Content
Week 1: Welcome to the Course!
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1.1 Welcome to Storying the Self!(video)
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1.2 Course Assessment
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1.3 How Stories Function in Society(video)
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1.4 Glossary of Identity Terms
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1.5 Social Justice Self-Reflection — The Power Flower
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1.6 Smelling the Power Flower(video)
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1.7 Power Flower or Identity Headlines
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1.8 Storytelling for Social Justice
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1.9 “The Cycle of Socialization”
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1.10 Reginald Dwayne Betts Podcast
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1.11 Stories Society Tells About You
Week 2: Critical Witnessing, Vulnerability and Stories
Week 3: Stories Hidden within Systems and Structures
Week 4: Stories that Move Us into Questioning, into Action
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