How does lived experience inform DEI facilitation, connections, and dialogues?

While requiring DEI facilitators and educators to have lived experience can correct historical wrongs and build connections, it also puts them at personal and professional risk. This work involves significant, often invisible emotional labour, which falls disproportionately on those with diverse identities and can lead to burnout. To mitigate harm, organizations must provide structural support like co-facilitation and equitable workload distribution, while facilitators can use personal strategies like strategic self-disclosure to protect themselves.

On this episode of Just One Q, Dominique chats with applied social psychologist Dr. Sara Kafashan about the practice of "identity as curriculum." They discuss the professional risks and emotional labour involved when facilitators use their lived experience in DEI work or to teach sensitive topics, and explore how organizations can better support those doing this vulnerable and essential work.

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