Melinda Messineo will guide participants through their personalized diversity story as they build their understanding about the connections between implicit bias and microaggressions. Attendees will leave the session with skills they can use immediately to reduce the frequency of microaggressions. They will also have strategies for moving toward recovery and repair when microaggressions do occur.

At the end of this session participants will:

• Understand our personal diversity stories

• Explore how differences in how we read stories impacts others

• Anticipate causes of implicit bias and microaggressions

• Practice strategies to move toward recovery and repair when mistakes occur