"Shakil is a rare jewel in the work of what it means to heal, repair, and take responsibility...
This book is required reading for anyone interested in building a loving, just and diverse world." -- Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison , Zen teacher & author of Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up Racial Justice without shame or blame.
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He coaches executive teams, facilitates inter-group conflict, and runs trails to clear his head. "-- New York Times- bestselling author of Buddha\'s Brain, Rick Hanson About author(s): Shakil Choudhury is an award-winning educator and consultant with 25 years of experience in justice, equity, diversity and inclusion work. " Choudhury draws on heart-touching stories, research on the brain, and hard-won lessons from real-world interventions to offer useful strategies to know ourselves, and others better.
It\'s only just begun.
Deep Diversity meets you where you\'re at, regardless of your identity, class, ability, or belief system, and invites you to come along on a journey of self-discovery, social awareness, and lifelong learning.
Deep Diversity is a unique, evidence-based Approach to Racial Justice that seeks to overcome feelings of shame that so often block our progress and prevent Deep change at individual and systemic levels.
This is why psychology and neuroscience perspectives are critical to integrate into anti-racist work, as is practicing compassion for ourselves and for others.
What\'s missing, Choudhury argues, is to understand why humans do what we do, the evolutionary impulses underlying our group-ish nature and our struggles with power, bias, and social dominance.
Traditional approaches to anti-racism overly rely on analyzing history to explain systemic discrimination, which only tells us a part of the story.
How the rise in authoritarianism and income inequality (among other factors) contribute to a rise in hate crimes and Racial discrimination, and what to do about it .
How to break the Racial "prejudice habits" we have all been socialized into since birth, using research-based strategies.
How to recognize when the unconscious influence of bias , identity, emotions, or power contradict our beliefs about equality, and how to realign our thoughts/words/actions.
Readers will come away from the book with practical tools and an understanding of: How to becomes a systems thinker by developing "Racial pattern recognition" skills in order to challenge racism and other forms of systemic discrimination when we encounter them, while minimizing the tendency to shame or blame ourselves or others.
He models vulnerability and mistake-making, sharing examples of his own bias-missteps so readers are encouraged into their own Racial Justice journey without judgment.
In easy-to-absorb chapters, Choudhury interweaves research into the brain and studies on human behavior with hard-won lessons from his career of helping organizations and CEOs create more inclusive environments.
Using a trauma-informed Approach that removes shame or blame, he offers us the tools to recognize, take authentic responsibility, and enact Deep change.
With clear language and engaging stories that will appeal to readers of Brené Brown and Malcom Gladwell, Choudhury explains how and why well-intentioned people can perpetuate systems of oppression, often unconsciously.
In Deep Diversity , award-winning Racial Justice educator Shakil Choudhury explores the emotionally loaded topic of racism using a compassionate, Scientific Approach that everyone can understand--whether you are Black, Indigenous, a person of color (BIPOC), or white.
Road-tested tools to start making a difference today. "Shakil is a rare jewel in the work of what it means to heal, repair, and take responsibility...
This book is required reading for anyone interested in building a loving, just and diverse world." -- Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison , Zen teacher & author of Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up Racial Justice without shame or blame
