Unconscious Bias: An Introduction

Sometimes our ignorance, prejudices and blind-spots can prevent us treating people fairly and showing God’s love equally to everyone. This course is a short introduction to this important area of our lives.

Have you ever felt shut out from a particular group or conversation? How did that happen?

Do you think you yourself have ever excluded others from your own group’s activities and conversation – perhaps without even noticing that you were doing it?

Sometimes we are handicapped by our ignorance, prejudices and blind-spots; these tendencies can prevent us treating people fairly and showing God’s love equally to everyone.

This course is a short introduction to this important area of our lives. It helps us become more aware of how our thinking and feeling sometimes lets us down in these ways. As we become more alert and honest about this, we can learn strategies which help us make wiser choices about how we see and respond to other people.

The course is run by a lay and clergy team from within our diocese, who have received training from Dawn Lewinson, an expert in this field. It is being offered at different times and in various locations, both online and on-site.