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What are the three elements of cultural humility outlined by Tervalon and Garcia?

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  1. Lifelong critical self-reflection
  2. Address power imbalances
  3. Hold institutions accountable
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What are the four core leadership skills outlined by the Center for Creative Leadership?

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  1. Self-awareness
  2. Communication
  3. Influence
  4. Learning agility
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What is self-awareness in leadership?

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The understanding of knowing that one’s behavior has an impact on organizational outcomes.

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What is communication in leadership?

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Effectively being able to communicate goals and inspire trust

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What is influence in leadership?

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Able to be comfortable persuading, promoting, and delegating.

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What is learning agility in leadership?

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Knowing when to change course and helping others to do so as well.

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All people are either:

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  1. Like all people
  2. Like some people
  3. Like no other people
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What does DEI stand for?

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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What is diversity?

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The presence of various intersectional identities in a given space.

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What is equity?

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The presence of policies, practices, processes, and opportunities that make it similarly possible for individuals with a variety of intersectional identities to participate in a certain space (“everyone gets the support they need”).

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What is inclusion?

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The presence of power and participation given to various intersectional voices in a given space.

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What is social justice as defined by the National Association of Social Work?

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The view that everyone deserves equal economic, political, and social rights and opportunities (“the cause of the inequity or inequities is addressed”).

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What is equality?

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The assumption that everyone benefits from the same support (“equal treatment”).

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What is reality?

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One gets more than is needed, while the other gets less than is needed, creating a huge disparity.

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According to Miller and Garran, what are the institutional systems?

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  1. Residential system
  2. Educational system
  3. Employment/Economics systems
  4. Healthcare/Environmental systems
  5. Mental health system
  6. Carceral system
  7. Politics
  8. Media
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What is counterintuitive solidarity?

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To trust the intuition of oppressed individuals over and against one’s own gut and experience, proving to lead one astray when operating from a vantage point of dominance (i.e. willing to go against your natural lived experiences /beliefs to be in agreement with others)

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What is cultural humility?

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A lifelong process of critical self-reflection whereby an individual not only learns about another’s culture but rather starts with an examination of their own beliefs and cultural identities. It also includes mitigating (addressing something to make it less severe, serious, or painful) power imbalances and ensuring institutional accountability.

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What is cultural competency?

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The ability to identify one’s own affiliations to culture and recognize/respect differing traditions of culture in other ways that influence styles of communication and respect.

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What are the parts of the 7E Model for Cultural Humility & Antioppressive Leadership?

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  1. Evolving (“Maintenance experience”)
  2. Exposure & Engaging (“Encounter experiences”)
  3. Examining & Evaluating (“Reflective experiences)
  4. Educating & Enacting (“Interventive experiences”)
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What is intersectionality?

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A framework for conceptualizing a person, or group of people, or a social problem as affected by a number of discriminations and disadvantages. It considers one’s overlapping identities and experiences to understand the complexity of prejudices one faces.

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What are “encounter” experiences?

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Any experiences (incidental or intentional) in which an individual has occasion to observe, consume, or participate in an activity that is foreign to their own intersectional identities and experiences (i.e. what one is watching, listening to, or attending).

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What are “reflective” experiences?

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Characterized by examining thoughts, feelings, and actions in anticipation of, or in response to, engaging with new people, content, and/or experiences (i.e. noticing changes in the body, brain, and behavior).

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What are “interventive” experiences?

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Practicing microresistance in interpersonal relationships and macroresistance strategies when systems and institutions one is a part of are guilty of dominant-group supremacy in policies, procedures, or practices.

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What is a “maintenance” experience?

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Being agile enough to take in new data, learn fresh terminology, and employ emergent strategies to challenge systems that continue to find ways to evade and pervert justice.

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What do Miller and Garran define as the residential system?
Programs, policies, and processes that create access and/or barriers to neighborhoods and housing.
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What do Miller and Garran define as the educational system?
Programs, policies, and processes that create access or barriers to public and private, elementary school, secondary school, and/or higher education.
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What do Miller and Garran define employment/economics systems as?
Programs, policies, and processes that create access or barriers to interviews, hiring, promotion, pay, wealth accumulation, and upward mobility.
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What do Miller and Garran define healthcare/environmental systems as?
programs, policies, and processes that create access or barriers to clean air, insulation from natural disasters, and/or preventative and restorative medical intervention.
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What do Miller and Garran define the mental health system as?
Programs, policies, and processes that create access and/or barriers to qualified, representative, culturally aware, specialized, therapy, case management, and crisis intervention.
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What do Miller and Garran define the carceral system as?
Programs, policies, and processes that create access and/or barriers to fair sentencing in terms of type, length, and intensity of legal punishment.
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What do Miller and Garran define the politics/political system as?
Programs, policies, and processes that create access and/or barriers to governmental representation.
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What do Miller and Garran define the media system as?
Programs, policies, and processes that create access and/or barriers to fair representation in journalism, art, and societal communication.
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What is the critical perspective?
A broad set of ideas and orientations that attend to invisible assumptions and to power structures.
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What are the parts of the critical perspective?
1. Critical reflection 2. Critical evaluation 3. Critical consciousness 4. Critical theory
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What is critical reflection?
An examination of deeply held beliefs in response to a disorienting dilemma that allows transformational learning to occur.
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What is critical evaluation?
An approach to evaluation that values data transparency and opinions from all stakeholders, regardless of rank.
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What is critical consciousness?
A persistent orientation toward a critically reflective understanding of oneself, others, and the world.
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What is critical theory?
A set of theories that analyze power relations to make social structures visible and create emancipatory potential (the critical perspective's paradigm of science).
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What are the mechanisms of oppression?
1. Economic Power and control 2. Myth of scarcity 3. Defined Norm 4. The Other 5. Invisibility 6. Distortion 7. Stereotyping 8. Violence and the Threat of Violence 9. Lack of Prior Claim 10. Blaming the Victim 11. Internalized Oppression 12. Horizontal Hostility 13. Isolation 14. Assimilation 15. Tokenism 16. Emphasis on Individual Solutions
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What are the Macroresistant Strategies for Potential Allies?
1. Interrogate (identify potential allies, ask "why") 2. Disrupt (provide correction, relevant data, report, protest) 3. Advocate (donate, vote, campaign) 4. Create (program, space, curriculum)
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What are the bases of power as defined by sociologists French and Raven?
1. Legitimate 2. Reward 3. Expert 4. Referent 5. Coercive 6. Informational
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What are microaggressions as defined by Derald Wing-Sue?
Commonplace verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults to people with identities that have been historically marginalized ("death by a 1000 cuts"; manifested verbally, nonverbally, and environmentally).
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What is a microinsult?
Often unconscious communications that convey rudeness and insensitivity and demean a person's identity.
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What is a microassault?
Often conscious explicit derogations that are characterized primarily by a violent verbal, nonverbal, or environmental attack meant to hurt the intended victim through name-calling, avoidant behavior, or purposeful discriminatory actions.
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What is a microinvalidation?
Often unconscious communications that exclude, negate, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a person from a marginalized group.
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What is legitimate power?
power enjoyed because an individual has the formal right to make demands, and to expect others to be compliant and obedient.
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What is reward power?
Power enjoyed because an individual can compensate another for compliance/agreement.
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What is expert power?
Power enjoyed because an individual has high-level skills and knowledge in a certain area/topic.
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What is referent power?
Power enjoyed because an individual has a right to respect/deference due to perceived attractiveness and worthiness.
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What is coercive power?
Power enjoyed because an individual can punish others for any non-compliance.
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What is informational power?
Power enjoyed because an individual has the ability to control the information that others need to accomplish something.
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What is Defined Norm? (Mechanism of Oppression)
A standard of what is good and right, against which all are judged.
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What is The Other? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Those who fall outside "the norm" but are defined in relation to it; seen as abnormal, inferior, marginalized.
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What is Invisibility? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Keeping "the other's" existence, everyday life, and achievements unknown.
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What is Distortion? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Selective presentation of rewriting of history so that only negative aspects of "the other" are included.
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What is Stereotyping? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Generalizing the actions of a few to an entire group, denying individual characteristics and behaviors.
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What is Violence and the threat of Violence? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Laying claim to resources, then using might to ensure a superior position.
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What is Lack of Prior Claim? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Excluding anyone who was not originally included and labeling as disruptive those who fight for inclusion.
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What is Blaming the Victim? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Condemning "the others" for their situation, diverting attention from the roles that dominants play in the situations.
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What is Internalized Oppression? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Internalizing negative judgments of being "the other," leading to self-hatred, depression, despair, and self-abuse.
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What is Horizontal Hostility? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Extending internalized oppression to one's entire group as well as to other subordinate groups, expressing hostility to other oppressed persons and groups rather than to members of dominant groups.
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What is Isolation? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Physically isolating people as individuals or a "minority" group.
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What is Assimilation? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Pressuring members of "minority" groups to drop their culture and differences and become a mirror of the dominant culture.
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What is Tokenism? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Rewarding some of the most assimilated "others" with position and resources.
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What is Emphasis on Individual Solutions? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Emphasizing individual responsibility for problems and individual solutions rather than collective responsibility and collective solutions.
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What is Myth of Scarcity? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Myth used to pit people against one another; suggests that resources are limited and blames people (i.e. poor people, immigrants) for using too many of them.
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What is Economic Power and Control? (Mechanism of Oppression)
Limiting of resources, mobility, education, and employment options to all but a few.
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What are microinterventions?
Unintentional or intentional words or actions that validate a person's experiences, affirm their racial identity, and offer encouragement/support/reassurance that the person is not alone.
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What is microresistance?
Minor collaborative or individual efforts that empower targeted people and allies to cope with, respond to, and/or challenge microaggressions with the goal of disrupting systems of oppression to create more inclusive institutions.
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What are microaffirmations?
Small acts of opening doors to opportunity, gestures of inclusion and caring, and graceful acts of listening.
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What are the types of microaffirmations according to Rosalie Rolon-Dow?
1. Microrecognition (acknowledging one's presence). 2. Microvalidations (validating one's experiences). 3. Microtransformations (one feels like they belong because an institution has made changes to accommodate them). 4. Microprotections (ensuring one feels protected from microaggressions).
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What are the microinventive practices?
1. Check-in (How do you feel, what do you need). 2. Open The Front Door (What do I Observe, Think, Feel, Desire). 3. Find out more (what can I do to better engage). 4. Self-Care (journaling, talking, walking).

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