At a recent retreat I facilitated focused on social change, a diverse group of people gathered, from company and foundation executives to grassroots activists and public housing residents. Their goal? To confront their own biases, form relationships across differences, and start to rebuild trust in their community. In our politically polarized society, the authentic conversations they had about race, religious differences, and our country’s often painful history were rare, courageous, and transformative.
Efforts like these exist alongside mounting evidence that in just about every facet of life—from education and health to housing and criminal justice—we are all acting in unconsciously biased ways. Recent studies have demonstrated that from prescribing pain medication to people with broken bones to yielding for pedestrians at a crosswalk, race plays a role in how we treat others.
[For more of this story, written by Matthew Freeman, go to http://greatergood.berkeley.ed...ps_across_difference]
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