Fountain Valley School – Student Leadership Training: How to Have Hard Conversations & Create Inclusive Communities

How do we make an inclusive community where everyone feels a sense of belonging? How can we have honest conversations about discrimination and bigotry that bring us closer as a community? While this topic for many can be uncomfortable, it is efforts like these that build our capacity to be a place of dignity for all. 

Increased knowledge and skills to support a school or community’s efforts to promote diversity and equity by covering the following topics:

• How to have hard conversations about bias, discrimination, and privilege
• How to support anti-racist work when you can’t relate to people of color’s experience or you have little education on having these conversations
• Knowing the difference between a curious question and a question that reinforces bias and discrimination
• Increasing student leaders skills to partner with classmates to create a culture of dignity