The Major Problem of Microaggressions

Delivered online or in-person, this engaging and experiential training session is designed to support participants in exploring how they can contribute to personal, organizational, and systemic shifts by intervening when violence, oppression, and microaggressions are perpetuated in life and in the workplace. Suggested audiences include managers, directors, and those in a position of organizational or workplace power.

In this training, participants will:

• Learn about the history of bystander intervention as a tool for social change
• Name their own sites of privilege, oppression, and identity
• Explore how these factors can bias our understanding and interpretation of everyday moments
• Discuss a framework for identifying why and how bystander intervention is an effective tool for interrupting violence
• Practice intervening and receiving an intervention non-defensively