DEI training and unconscious biases

DEI training and unconscious biases

DEI training and unconscious biases

It’s important to identify and educate on biases but is also important to understand why people have certain biases. A lot of biases are fortunately, unconscious biases, that is not intentional, not meaning to be either prejudicial or in favour of a certain group or idea.

We all have unconscious biases. They often start and are anchored into us from an early age and occur automatically when our brain makes a quick judgement on past experiences: a past bad experience, an image we saw, something we heard, social norms etc. The question to tackling biases is not only alerting on them but also questioning individually “why” we have certain biases. Where did they stem from and stepping out of our comfort zone to see things from a different perspective. During DEI training, more time on training could be given to employing a critical thinking framework such as the eight elements of the Paul and Elder Critical Thinking Framework: purpose, question at issue, information, inferences, concepts, assumptions, implications, and point of view.

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Brid Doherty-Appriou

Brid is a native English speaker, fluent in French, a graduate in both International Business Communication and in Instructional Design. She is also accredited (TEFL) to teach English as a foreign language. Her professional experience spans over 20 years in an international environment, working in CAC 40 communication groups and as a consultant in Executive Search.

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