Disrupting Bias using Emotional Intelligence Skills
Workshop Mission: Understanding Bias and it’s relation to Emotional Intelligence
Objectives:
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Understand how emotion is connected to Bias
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Understand how your brain processes the emotion chemicals and communicates through feelings
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Identify where bias is created and nurtured
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Understand how your brain processes change and how some people are able to change easier than others
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Understand how to disrupt your biases using the change model of Emotional Intelligence
Outcomes:
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Engage in activities that will keep your brain healthy
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Tips to address biases and assumptions
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Learn the behaviors required to achieve high Emotional Intelligence
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Assess your ability to disrupt bias using the Emotional intelligence change model
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Create an action plan to disrupt bias using the growth model
Explore your zone and ways to engage towards the growth zone
Siddika Jessa
CEO of WiderLens
As the CEO of WiderLens, I design and deliver bespoke workshops across North America for clients from a wide range of sectors, including voluntary, legal, retail and corporate. The bespoke development programs are designed to propel individuals towards positive and authentic Action. As a friend described my facilitation style:
"Siddika’s ability to lean into discomfort to find comfort is infectious and you may find yourself in the same conundrum in her session"