For many people it is not easy to change their attitudes and bahviours to fit with what we now understand to be a better way of relating to each other.

Our attitudes to the six strands of diversity - age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and disability - have all developed through the culture in which we grew up.

The culture gap across time can be as difficult to cross as a culture gap caused by geographical distance.

 

The aims of this programme are:

 

-to give participants an awareness of how culture shapes attitudes,

-to appreciate the way in which our culture has been examined and found to be unacceptable in our attitudes to certain groups of people,

-to recognize how procedures, language and behviours can be unintentionally offensive or discriminatory,

-to work out a strategy for examining procedures, language and behaviours to become more inclusive in how we relate in the workplace.

 

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