Power and Diversity: Sensitizing Yourself and others through Self-Reflection and Storytelling

Abstract

This article describes a two-part classroom exercise that can be used to increase students' sensitivity to workforce diversity and related issues of power. Through reflections on past experiences, storytelling, and interaction with others, students heighten their awareness of their own and others' experiences with human diversity and begin to develop links between diversity and power dynamics. Lessons about power, the workplace, and self-understanding are discussed.