HB II Oppression Video 1 DB. Week 9

One of the key points of development throughout adulthood is the growth and shaping of a personal identity. Our identity is informed by many micro, macro, and meso sources, including oppression and bias. Please watch both TED talks for this week and answer the questions for each video below. You are welcome to respond (but not required) to one of your classmates but I ask that you follow A “golden rule” of posting: please respond to someone in the exact same way that you would want someone to respond to you.

Verna Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them

Verna Myers identifies 3 ways to challenge our biases. Please identify these 3 challenges. Select one of them that was most meaningful to you and reflect on why it is important and how you could move this area forward in your practice