As a diverse and multicultural workplace, Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM) is pleased to host this workshop by Nikolai Leung.
Nikolai Leung works for an international IT & communications tech company based in San Francisco, California. Last year, he was given an award for his voluntary community service of 30 years for holding workshops on multiculturalism and diversity. The aim of this workshop is to stimulate dialogue and teach us how we can work both on our individual selves regarding unconscious biases and prejudices, and how we can work more “intelligently” together to achieve a greater common objective (e.g., climate change).
You can read more about Nikolai Leung and his background here (pdf).
The workshop format will involve many breaks between short lectures for group exercises to better digest the information and include fun games that keep it engaging. We have found that this is a very effective format in allowing a balance of attention between work and fun as we look at, and process, some challenging topics.
To register, contact Camila Esguerra before August 24: c.v.esguerra@ncmm.uio.no
Workshop Outline
Introductions
Constructivist Listening
Learning a simple but powerful tool in group exercises
Intelligence
- What is it?
- Why do humans not always act intelligently?
- What causes patterns and how do they affect us?
- How can we recover our full intelligence in every domain?
The Immigrant Experience
People of the Global Majority
Group exercises
Exclusion & Mistreatment
What causes someone to act unkindly or thoughtlessly towards another?
What is the cause of systemic exclusion & mistreatment?
If economics is the underlying reason, what are the mechanics and pretexts used to enable this?
How do we eliminate these societal patterns on both sides?
- From the people targeted by it?
- From the people who have been forced into the targeting role?
Liberation: what does this look like?
Movement building and making structural changes