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Mentor Training Series #5: Addressing Equity and Inclusion
Wednesday, July 22, 2020, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Category: Webinars

Diversity, along a range of dimensions, offers both challenges and opportunities to any relationship. Learning to identify, reflect upon, learn from, and engage with diverse perspectives is critical to forming and maintaining both an effective mentoring relationship as well as a vibrant learning environment. In the last session, your group discussed the importance of assessing mentees’ understanding and how to best facilitate their learning. In this session, mentors will expand upon this by considering how to foster an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best learning and create the highest quality of output, both because of and in spite of their diverse perspectives. In this webinar, participants will: 1) improve and expand understanding of equity and inclusion and how diversity influences mentor-mentee interactions; 2) recognize the potential impact of conscious and unconscious assumptions, preconceptions, biases, and prejudices on the mentor-mentee relationship and reflect on how to manage them; and 3) identify concrete strategies for learning about, recognizing, and addressing issues of equity and inclusion in order to engage in conversations about diversity with mentees and foster a sense of belonging.

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