Activity 5 Appreciating Diversity Trainings
- Tools/Educational Resources: “Diversity”
- Description: This activity is designed to encourage participants to consider their backgrounds, expectations, and emotions towards diversity trainings. By interviewing each other, the group will have the chance to face some of the questions related to the conversation.
Interviews
- The Purpose of This Activity
- This activity is designed to encourage participants to consider their backgrounds, expectations, and emotions towards diversity trainings. By interviewing each other, the group will have the chance to face some of the questions related to the conversation.
- Estimated Time
- 20-25 minutes
- Materials
- Introduction
- Interviewing for a job, volunteer work, or any other position can be stressful. However, todaywe will work with the interviewing process to get more comfortable with it, and to “hire” eachother for our training together.
- How to Play
- Break the group into pairs.
- Invite the pairs to take turns interviewing each other with the following questions:
- What is your purpose here?
- What emotions are you feeling going into this training session? Can you explain them?
- What kind of experience do you have in the diversity field?
- What are your goals for the day?
- How do you define diversity?
- What sort of impact do you expect to experience going forward after today‟s
- sessions?
- How have you related with diversity up to this point?
- When participants have all answered the questions, ask for volunteers to share any answers or comments they‟d like to bring to the group.
- Suggested Debriefing Questions
- 1. Why did we do this exercise? What was it like?
- 2. Were any questions difficult to answer? Why?
- 3. Did any of your partners‟ answers surprise you? Please don‟t share without permission.
- 4. Why is it important to “take inventory” like this beginning a diversity session?
- Things to Consider
- This activity is best completed towards the beginning of a session. However, this is optional and does not apply to this particular session.
