My mental health advocacy and education work with the Nepali
professional and lay communities (http://www.bewellinitiative.com/) is encouraging
me to expand energy and ideas into surprising cultural/educational
realms. More specifically, Dr, Anita Nahal, "The Diversity
Doc," a recognized cultural diversity expert, both in the US and in India,
and I are teaming up to offer an uncommon mix of East and West, "Diversity
& Inclusion," and Stress Resilience ideas and interventions. Our
goal: recognizing and transforming unconscious workplace "Assumptions,
Biases, and misguided Communications." These are the "Cultural
ABCs" that weaken team resilience, resourcefulness, collaboration, and
creativity. And while this partnership breaks new ground, it sustains the
"Get FIT" spirit of all Stress Doc programs: by being FUN-Interactive-Thought-provoking!
For more info on how this unique partnership can help boost your
team's, organization's, or company's productivity and purpose,
energy and community morale, please send a linked-in text or email to
stressdoc@aol.com.
Don't miss your appointment with the Diversity Doc and the
Stress Doc!
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Dr. Anita Nahal, PhD, CDP, acclaimed author,
administrator, professor, and D & I Consultant, the Diversity Doc, and
Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, acclaimed speaker, team building consultant, and Motivational
Psychohumorist ™, the Stress Doc ™, have joined forces. This dynamic duo will help you and your
company or organization discover the possibility and power of “human touch in a
high-tech world” through their innovative D & I, East-West Synergy Model
& Method. Recognize and practice how
an awareness of bias enhances self-discovery, mutual empathy, and stimulating
diversity. And this applied learning helps build an inclusive cultural climate
of trust and civility as well as the sharing of ideas, positive conflict, and
productive energy, i.e., stress
resilience, greater morale, and interpersonal/team
creativity!
Through lively and en-light-ening presentation and real world small group exercises,
Anita and Mark will help your team “Get FIT” with their FUN-Interactive-Thought-provoking program. Discover tools and techniques, skills and
strategies (see objectives below) for applying a novel approach that brings
bias barriers to light and “D & I” to life!
Don’t miss your appointment with the Diversity
and Stress Docs!
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The Beauty and CHALLENGES of Diversity & Inclusion
(D & I)
“THE EAST-WEST SYNERGY
Model” for Overcoming Unconscious Bias
while Strengthening
Resilience, Trust, Morale &
DROI – Diversity Return
on Investment
Overview: This UNIQUE workshop
BROUGHT TO YOU BY TWO VERY DIVERSE PROFESSIONALS will inspire individuals and groups to develop
workable solutions that transform the opportunities and challenges of diversity
and inclusion (D & I) into stress resilience, trust- and
team-building. Learn to view unconscious bias (UB) as a window to
self-understanding and human connection. More specifically, participants will
learn to release stress, transform conflict, build cultural-interpersonal
bridges, evolve “winning teams,” and achieve the “diversity return on
investment.” This has never been more critical…in today’s
always on TNT – Time-Numbers-Techno – Driven, Distracted & Distressed
(3-“D”) World. In
fact, recent research reveals one out of two employees leave their job because of
burnout!
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
1. Understand the
Overviews of D & I and UB, and Stress and Burnout/Stress and Conflict
Resilience Concepts and Theories: An INTER-CULTURAL Partnership and
Program
2. Grasp the Layered Nature of D & I: Psychological-Cultural and Self-Other-Environment Awareness
3. Learn to Disarm Power Struggles and Engaging Critical (or Passive) Aggressors: Communication Tools for Increasing Understanding, Respect, and Trust
4. Understand the
Concepts of Unconscious Bias and Their Impact on Perceptions, Value Judgments,
and Actions
5. Use Mind-Mapping for Meaningful Self-Analysis and Understanding to deal with ONE'S own Unconscious Bias; Discover the Universal Judgmental Error through Attribution Theory
6. Explore and Apply the Inter-Cultural Conflict and Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Styles: Models, Methods, and Problem-Solving Exercises; develop workplace workable strategies and solutions
7. Confront the Intimate FOE and Experience the Power of Writing and the Creative – East and West – Expressions
About the presenters:
Anita Nahal, PhD, CDP is a poet,
children's books author, professor, administrator, D&I Consultant, &
Founder & Chairperson, http://www.diversitydiscover.com/ Dr. Anita Nahal resides in New Jersey
with her blessing, her son. Some of Nahal's past positions include: Mellon
Fellowship Program Administrator for the Smithsonian National Museum of African
American History and Culture; Assistant Provost for International Programs,
Howard University, Washington D.C.; Visiting Associate Professor of History at
the State University of New York at Binghamton, New York; and Associate
Professor of History, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India.
Nahal has held various academic honors, such as the Fulbright and the National
Endowment for the Humanities. Besides two academic books, Nahal has one book of
poems (Initiations-1988), three children’s books, & over 30 articles
in journals & blogs. She writes periodically on LinkedIn. Nahal's most
recent data oriented study on Ethnic and Cultural Diversity at HBCUs was
published as a chapter in a book in 2015. Her second volume of poems is
ready for publication, and some of the poems form this volume can be found
in Aberration Labyrinth, Better Than Starbucks, Confluence & aaduna.
Nahal has travelled to over 15 countries, speaks three foreign languages, and
comes from a family of writers and educators. Nahal has two awards in diversity
awareness and promotion, and has three certifications to her credit in
diversity and inclusion training. More info on Nahal at: http://diversitydiscover.com/founder.html
Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW,
known as the "The Stress Doc" ™, is an acclaimed speaker, writer, and
"Psychohumorist" ™, is a Leadership Coach/Training-Retreat Consultant
for the international Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University at the Daytona, FL
headquarters. Mark is also a founding partner and Stress Resilience and Trauma
Debriefing Consultant for the Nepali Diaspora Behavioral Health & Wellness Initiative.
Over the years, the Doc has trained and consulted with many hundreds of
government agencies and corporations. A former Stress and Violence
Prevention Consultant for the US Postal Service, he has led numerous
transformative – silo-breaking and communications bridge-building – Pre- and
Post-Deployment Stress Resilience-Humor-Team Building Retreats for US Army
Senior Officers and Sergeants. The Doc is the author of Practice Safe
Stress: Healing and Laughing in the Face of Stress, Burnout & Depression,
The Four Faces of Anger: Transforming Hostility and Rage into
Assertion and Passion, Fierce Longing…Fiery Loss: Relearning to
Let Go, Laugh & Love, and Preserving Human Touch in a High-Tech
World: Writings, Raps & Rhymes. His award-winning, USA
Today Online "HotSite" – www.stressdoc.com – was called a
"workplace resource" by National Public Radio (NPR). The Doc
also provides Stress Resilience and Burnout Recovery In-Person and Phone-Skype
Counseling as well as Communication/Public Speaking Coaching. For more
info, email: stressdoc@aol.com.
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