Knowing
Knowing
What does this capacity mean or involve?
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Being
Being
What sensibilities, characteristics, and priorities are cultivated?
Doing
Doing
What actions are called for? What would this look like in practice
Awareness of one's beliefs, values, attitudes, and emotions; recognition that these are shaped by cultural context and other external forces.
Self-awareness, including one's inherited and positional power and privilege.
Awareness of one’s impact on individuals and community, recognizing the impact of each action and inaction.
Self-awareness
Emotional intelligence
Self-acceptance
Conscious mindfulness
Grounding In
Agency
Awareness of the self as shaped by and able to respond to systems of power
Awareness of the self as always under construction, not static
Recognition that mistakes and failure can be opportunities for growth
Equity, inclusion, access, and anti-racism
Ability to receive feedback about one’s impact and use it as direction
Self-worth
The worth of others
Being introspective and self-reflective
Being self-aware and intentional
Using “I” statements when expressing opinions
Considering the impact of one’s words and actions on others
Developing empathy
Taking care of oneself
Taking care of one’s community and communal space
Being confident in one’s own worth
Creating space, giving up space
Creating access
Asking for what others need
Intentionally elevating marginalized and minoritized voices, bodies, and work (BIPOC, LGBTQAIP2+, First Generation, and female-identified peoples)
Resources
Resources
Leadership for a Better World Instructor’s Manual (for Consciousness of Self, see pages 134-150)
Social Identity Wheel and Framing Material (University of Michigan)
Facilitating Reflection: A Manual for Leaders and Educators (University of Vermont)
National SEED Project Resources
Strengths So White: Interrogating StrengthsQuest Education Through a Critical Whiteness Lens
Reflection Prompts (ARC & Bonner)
Equity and Inclusion Resource Guide (Bates)
Personality Tests
Personality Tests
Give or Take Assessment - Assess your style of giving, taking and matching.
Adam Grant - "... Helping others is the best way to succeed. Helping others is the most meaingful way to succeed".
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