Recently, I did breakout session for the Regional YSA Conference at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City. I enjoyed teaching them about "Becoming a Leader: Developing and Unleashing Your Potential". This this episode, I share my thoughts about our rising generation as I felt their positive influence, and I also share some of that I taught them about becoming leaders. I hope you find this 15-minute episode helpful!

This 10-minute episode welcomes you to the 4th season of Unleashing Sister Saints by highlighting its' purpose, audience, and why I chose the title I did for this podcast. Also, I reflect on keeping our hearts soft and the impact of a hymn we sang in Church titled "I Stand All Amazed." It is a little bit of this and that, which I hope you appreciate!

Welcome back to my next season of Unleashing Sister Saints. I'm starting out this season with a special episode titled "Healing After Sexual Abuse: A Latter-Day Saint Perspective," which is the title of a new book released by Deseret Book. I interviewed the two authors of this book for this episode: Shirley Washenko and Sage Williams. This episode has such profound insights we need to all understand, whether we are a survivor or not. And we all around people impacted whether we know it or not. Their insights on accountability and forgiveness are profound and not what you would think in many ways. Please listen in! These two are amazing. https://open.spotify.com/episode/26N9MEivRkUkgFeoA52m68?si=R9VlNmuzQ3OCpFwFL0n7BABook: Healing after Sexual Abuse - WILLIAMS, SAGE; WASHENKO, SHIRLEY | Deseret Book

This is the last in a 5-part series I've been doing on unconscious bias. These are made up of episodes 121, 122, 123, 124, and 125. I wanted to share some of the content of my in-person/Zoom three-hour unconscious bias workshop. In Episode 121, I provided an introduction, and in 122, I did most of the background section, in 123 I finished the background and then talked about unconscious bias purpose and description. In 124, I walked through two segments titled “Filters, Lenses, & Worldviews” and also “Types of Biases. Then in this last one I share strategies to help us do better. I also have resources below. I hope you have enjoyed this series! Enjoy the summer.

Videos:

Check Our Bias to Wreck Our Bias (The New York Times): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ZFDqzAmEE&t=2s

To Reduce Implicit Bias, Build Friendships that Cross the Racial Divide (The New York Times): https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/videos/10151017214134999/

Press PAUSE to Disrupt Bias – Conclusion (Cook Ross): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btuHeIM7nBU

ASSESSMENT: Harvard Project Implicit Bias Tests: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

BOOK: Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives

MODEL: Use a Cook Ross tool called PAUSE:

• Pay attention to what's actually happening beneath the judgments and assessments.

• Acknowledge your own reactions, interpretations, and judgments.

• Understand the other reactions, interpretations, and judgments that may be possible.

• Search for the most empowering, productive way to deal with the situation.

• Execute your action plan.

If you are just joining and haven’t listened to Episodes 121, 122, and 123, I’d recommend listening to those first, as I’m in the middle of sharing the content of my unconscious bias workshop. The face to face or Zoom versions are very interactive and are 3 hours, but I’m condensing it, but still wanted to share it. In Episode 121, I provided an introduction, and in 122, I did most of the background section, in 123 I finished the background and then talked about unconscious bias purpose and description. Today, in 124, I talk through “Filters, Lenses, & Worldviews” and “Types of Biases. I’ll just have one more episode in this series for episode 125, and then I’ll halt for the summer.

Videos:

Black Doll, White Doll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybDa0gSuAcg

#Like A Girl (Always): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs&t=3s

Addressing Unconscious Bias (McKinsey & Company):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8UIW_Pi5wU&t=6s

Activity & Questions:

1. Select a key event or element in your life, as farback as you can remember, that has impacted how you engage with the world.

2. Consider how it impacted your relationship to trust,safety, authority figures, and ways you relate to others.

3. Think about how it might impact the way you behave inthe workplace.

4. What are your core values and how do these shape yourviews?

5. How did faith impact your biases and how has thatimpacted your values and behaviors?

6. How were your perceptions of social roles shaped bygroups (e.g., community, religious, military) to which you belong?

If you are just joining and haven’t listened to Episodes 121 and 122, I’d recommend listening to those first, as I’m in the middle of sharing the content of my unconscious bias workshop. It is 3 hours when I do it in person or on Zoom, but I’m condensing it for this podcast. In Episode 121, I provided an introduction, and in 122, I did most of the background section. In this episode I finish that up and then talk about the purpose and description of unconscious bias. I'll have two more episodes left in this 5-part series. In person provides of course deeper development, this hopefully this helps some. Listen in!

VIDEOS:

PAUSE to Disrupt Bias – Bart (Cook Ross): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3EneHUN_g

Basketball Awareness Test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_lTKZm1Ts

McGurk Effect –Auditory Illusion (BBC Horizon Clip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k8fHR9jKVM

Inspire Her Mind (Verizon Commercial): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yND9hDpPwYA

This is the second in a series I'm doing that is part of a training I do on understanding unconscious biases. Episode 121 was the first in a series and this is Episode 122. This is information on understanding ourselves and our own biases and is 100% aligned with becoming a human being and becoming less judgmental. 121 provided an introduction and now 122 provides some background information, which includes some research studies. I find it all so interesting and helpful!

Video Links:

PAUSE to Disrupt Bias - Shipa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61AHQNupaAA

PAUSE to Disrupt Bias – Rosalyn:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYQEj-Qk56k

Press PUASE to Disrupt Bias Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upzac0I46aI

For a long while, I’ve been thinking that I should provide you as listeners some of my unconscious bias workshop in chunks because I think it is more important than ever before. I’ve taught this for years, and before that I worked on my deeper understanding of myself and actually how to teach it is a way that could be effective. I’m a better person for digging deep into how unconscious bias works in myself. I’m a better spouse, mother, grandmother, employee, neighbor, and church goer. I could make the name of this and just called it “Becoming a better human being” or “Becoming less judgmental,” as that is what it is.

When I do it in person or on Zoom, it is 3-hour training with all of the activities. This will be shorter and most likely less effective, but I still think it will provide insights for you. My expectation is that it will be at least 6 episodes for 15-20 minutes each, but we'll see. I hope you'll listen in!

Video:Think for Yourself (Dawah Films, UK): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPyPM25boh0