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Storying the Self: (Re)Claiming our Voices

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Storying the Self: (Re)Claiming our Voices

This course is part of Storying the Self for Leadership and Creativity Specialization

Instructor: Linds Roberts

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

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8 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

8 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Engage active listening towards others’ life stories with empathy and curiosity.
Identify the interaction between sociocultural and interpersonal dynamics in life stories.
Value our own life experiences and identities as leaders and creators.

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There are 4 modules in this course

Engage with lived experiences and identities that have often been denied a public voice. Consider the nuanced contexts of race, gender, class, language, ability, and how these impact your position as a leader and creator. You’ll question what it means to reclaim your narrative of yourself and to engage with the strength of vulnerability as a leader and creator. In a creative exercise, you’ll engage with multiple perspectives on a past conflict and use this reflection to practice perspective-taking and listening that can generate creative work and deepen leadership skills for empathy, listening and engaging in multicultural workplaces.

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This week we'll dive more deeply into aspects of our social identities, how they relate to our access to resources, voice, and choice, and how they shape our stories of ourselves. We'll also take a look at the four types of stories: stock stories, concealed stories, resistance stories, and transformative stories to better understand how stories are used within our cultural contexts.

What's included

3 videos7 readings2 discussion prompts

3 videosTotal 9 minutes

Welcome to Storying the Self!2 minutes
How Stories Function in Society4 minutes
Smelling the Power Flower3 minutes

7 readingsTotal 61 minutes

Course Updates and Accessibility Support1 minute
Course Assessment10 minutes
Glossary of Identity Terms10 minutes
Social Justice Self-Reflection — The Power Flower10 minutes
Storytelling for Social Justice10 minutes
"The Cycle of Socialization"10 minutes
Reginald Dwayne Betts Podcast 10 minutes

2 discussion promptsTotal 30 minutes

Power Flower or Identity Headlines20 minutes
Stories Society Tells About You10 minutes

This week we reflect on what it means to receive the stories others share. We'll also practice deep listening and noticing.

What's included

1 video5 readings1 discussion prompt

1 videoTotal 63 minutes

A Conversation with Elizabeth Dutro63 minutes

5 readingsTotal 90 minutes

Background for Conversation with Elizabeth Dutro10 minutes
Elizabeth Dutro, "Trauma as Testimony"10 minutes
Active Listening Strategies10 minutes
Deep Listening & Indigenous Leadership10 minutes
Active & Deep Listening Practice: Ocean Vuong On Being Podcast50 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 10 minutes

Deep Listening and Witnessing Reflection10 minutes

This week we consider stories of individual experiences within structures and systems that add greater nuance to the stock or dominant narratives we hear. We will consider what is possible when we complicate common stereotypes and consider the ways that power interacts with these stories.

What's included

3 readings1 discussion prompt

This week we consider how honoring the stories in our bodies and the empathy that arises when we deeply hear others' stories and perspectives can move us into action.