Our own underlying beliefs and biases are not so easy to see. They’ve often been with us so long that they’re deeply embedded, operating below our conscious awareness.  With this collection, learn how navigate those beliefs and biases to embrace diversity.

7 Days of Embracing Diversity

Welcoming Wisdom

Differing viewpoints also provide an opportunity to practice mindfulness. When we sense that we’re ‘hooked’ – feeling the need to be right or to prove a point – we can pause to take a breath and notice our own reaction.

Awareness

Curious Observation

Cognitive Flexibility

Attitudes of Mindfulness

Focus

A New Lens

When we’re unaware of our own biases, they operate in the shadows, influencing our thoughts and emotions, our decisions and our actions – such as the way we treat others.

Harmonizing Differences

As we listen to a symphony, we understand that every note matters – that each contributes to the greater whole.  Likewise, we can appreciate the diverse perspectives we each bring, and honor the wholeness that is our common humanity.

Receiving with Gratitude

Mindfulness brings awareness to our own first-person perspective. With practice, we’re more able to broaden and shift perspective as needed, more readily see the perspective of others, and to hold multiple perspectives simultaneously.

Receiving With Gratitude

Move With the Moment

As with other cognitive abilities, mental flexibility can be developed. We can cultivate agility and a more fluid way of thinking and  being.

Move With The Moment

Limitless Possibilities

Holding tightly to our thoughts and beliefs limits us in many ways. It limits our ability to see possibilities, to take in new information, to make fully informed decisions.

Open Mind Open Heart

It is not easy to open up to the perspective of others. It requires the willingness to set aside our own viewpoint for that moment. It requires self-awareness – the ability to notice our emotional reaction, our resistance, our own inner dialogue.

7 Days of Embracing Diversity

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