The Hidden Biases of Good People: Implicit Bias Awareness Training

Do you know if this training will be approved by the American Psychological Association for CEU's?

Although there’s research indicating that infants demonstrate a preference for caregivers of their own race, any future racial biases and bigotries generally are environmentally acquired. Adult racist sentiments are often cemented by a misguided yet strong sense of entitlement, perhaps also acquired from one’s environment.

One means of proactively preventing this social/societal problem may be by allowing young children to become accustomed to other races in a harmoniously positive manner. The early years are typically the best time to instill and even solidify positive social-interaction life skills/traits, like interracial harmonization, into a very young brain. Human infancy is the prime (if not the only) time to instill and even solidify positive social-interaction characteristics into a very young mind.

At a very young and therefore impressionable age, I was emphatically told by my mother (who’s of Eastern European heritage, Croatian specifically) about the exceptionally kind and caring nature of our Black family doctor. She never had anything disdainful to say about people of color; in fact, she still enjoys watching/listening to the Middle Eastern and Indian subcontinental dancers and musicians on the multicultural channel. I believe that her doing so had a very positive and lasting effect on me.

Irrational racist sentiment can be handed down generation to generation. If it’s deliberate, it’s something I strongly feel amounts to a form of child abuse: to rear one’s impressionably very young children in an environment of overt bigotry — especially against other races and/or sub-racial groups (i.e. ethnicities). Not only does it fail to prepare children for the practical reality of an increasingly racially/ethnically diverse and populous society and workplace, it also makes it so much less likely those children will be emotionally content or (preferably) harmonious with their multicultural/-racial surroundings.

Children reared into their adolescence and, eventually, young adulthood this way can often be angry yet not fully realize at precisely what. Then they may feel left with little choice but to move to another part of the land, where their race or ethnicity predominates, preferably overwhelmingly so. If not for themselves, parents then should do their young children a big favor and NOT pass down onto their very impressionable offspring racially/ethnically bigoted feelings and perceptions, nor implicit stereotypes and ‘humor’, for that matter. Ironically, such rearing can make life much harder for one’s own children.

This is a wonderful course.  If you are in recovery I highly recommend for your healing process.  Much of my addictive behavior dates back to generational influences.  I want to be a better person/parent/neighbor/friend and I needed to address the dark emotions attached to my implicit biases.  It is personally freeing and I am a better human being for it.  
I hope to attend again to learn more of my fellow man and improve my action plans.  
If you have a business environment I strongly suggest this course.  I recommend it for first responders, public civil service jobs and all workers in health care and social service fields.  

I would love to attend...but I live in London. I dont know if you plan to broadcast on Zoom/Teams or similar do you? Also do you have any contacts for a similar UK equivalent?

Terrific! Thanks for posting.