How can you create a culture of empathy and activism for social justice?

In my experience, mixing age, background, gender and all other variables in a team ensures you make the most of everyone’s experience, adding all perspectives whilst enhancing your innovative and creative skills. You need to pay attention to every letter in DEIB; not least B for belonging to ensure you have done your work properly; distributing power and responsibility evenly through your organisation. Don’t make DEIB an issue merely for HR or for ’minority groups ’ but make sure to rotate involvement in initiatives like ’equity committes’ and the like.

I find it is key to embed values of diversity and understanding, providing educational resources, and promoting active participation in social issues. Implementing educational workshops, celebrating diverse cultures, engaging in community initiatives, and fostering open discussions on social matters are examples. Leadership should exemplify empathetic and socially conscious behavior, and encourage individuals to take part in activism, while policies should support inclusion and equality. Ensuring consistent and genuine implementation of these strategies and evaluating their impact regularly are vital for deeply ingraining such a culture and effectively advancing social justice in a meaningful and sustainable way.

Putting ourselves in someone else's shoes and looking at the world through the eyes of someone different than ourselves creates a compassionate empathy that inspires people to want to take action, and forms the foundation of social justice and the pursuit of the greater good for everyone.

Look at who you surround yourself with. Are you actively surrounding yourself with voices that confirm your beliefs and ideas? By inviting and celebrating new ideas and perspectives which sometimes challenge our view of the world we step away from confirmation bias.

With cultural humility as the foundation - • Be curious - What do you wish you knew but are afraid or uncomfortable to ask? What do you know and what do you see? • Be in an evolving state of self-reflection with a commitment to see how individuals, especially those from marginalized communities define who they are. • Shift the power imbalance of control and understand its impact. Is your focus on psychological safety? How do you inspire others? Do your actions model inclusion and equity? • Acknowledge that we engage cross-culturally and cross-linguistically and mistakes are inevitable. Be thoughtful, take responsibility for mistakes, and to be open to learning/adapting as cultures and languages evolve.

The issues we take a stand on and believe are critical to create a more equitable, inclusive and fair culture are always our moral and ideological pillars and we need to uphold them regardless of their impact on us. Often times folks in leadership will be pro-labor, pro-democracy, etc until it affects them personally or professionally. That is not activism, that is not actively listening.

I've found many folks don't quite know the difference between empathy and sympathy. Empathy is shown in how much compassion and understanding we can give to another. Sympathy is more of a feeling of pity for another. Empathy is our ability to understand how someone feels while sympathy is our relief in not having the same problems. But, if we take the time to talk to others over a different social, cultural, religious mindset, we start to understand. The moment we take the time to listen to the views, opinions, and or beliefs of others, and communicate in such a way that we genuinely want to learn, we are learning more about them, their culture and who they are as a person, and often times learn a lot about ourselves in the process.

One thing I've felt helpful to learn and understand the cultural differences in the world, is either learning about and interacting with our own indigenous cultures.. Secondly, traveling.. not just to the usual tourist traps, but where history, and those off the beaten path exist. Take someone from the local area with you to act as a guide, and in some cases, translator.

I think diversity and inclusion mean well and that is where it ends for me. Diversity and inclusion are the system's way of saying we're going to encourage/force you to interact or accept things that you do not agree with and I do not think that is fair.

Centering workplace cultural humility - Having the humility and the openness to explore these gaps by being inquisitive; not relying on preconceived lens of one’s own potentially biased perspectives. • Create reverse mentorship and sponsorship programs that require a lens od cultural diversity. • Mentor someone from another culture and/or be mentored by individuals from different culture. • Deconstruct how you create psychological safety. • Broadening your world by reading/ listening to different music genres and cultural podcasts. • Empower and elevate individuals. • Schedule walking meetings and notice how others respond when outdoors and not behind a computer or in an office. • Volunteer – community impact is diversity at its core.

Busca entorno. Divulgadores, agrupaciones, espacios en los que tu curiosidad se vea satisfecha. Si quieres aprender de algo, no hay mejor forma que buscar a las personas que saben, que lo viven, que debaten sobre ello, que plantean su opinión para ayudar al resto a entender. Se parte de ello para enriquecerte. Eso te dará una visión más amplia de realidades que quizás no te planteabas porque no vivías pero que existen. El entorno es muy importante para todo en la vida. Si quieres crecer, busca un entorno nutritivo. Muchas veces creemos que nos debemos conformar o que el entorno que tenemos es el que nos toca y esto es una gran creencia limitante. Si te interés es diferente al resto cercano, busca entorno y empodera tus diferencias.

BLM started out as a great movement, and done some great things but really didn't have a real understanding of what activism was. The clear understanding of being an activist. Do not accept funding from those whom you are fighting against.

Modeling cultural humility • Invest personal time in self-reflection to develop a curiosity for and appreciation of peoples’ differences. Pause to identify your biases & assumptions. • Begin with an examination of our beliefs and cultural identities, to prevent bias from seeping into assessing others. Pay attention to word choices and action and their impact on others. • Know what is true, fact-based, not opinions or hearsay. • When making corporate decision, pause to ensure there are voices from diverse communities. • Be curious by asking with kindness before acting. What do you wish you knew but are afraid or uncomfortable to ask? The process of growth shifts from comfort to discomfort to compassion and wisdom.

skills, knowledge, and strategies, as well as the culture and systems that shape your environment. Black America has all that is mentioned above, but we've become so untrusting of one another that we become individualists. looking out for self.

More people are buying guns, more people are abandoning religion, we've become self idolized and we wonder why there is so much hate in our hearts💕 💕. We're so afraid of our kids, parents are victims and prisoners in their own homes. The system has failed because those who control the system are perverted, money-hungry non-religious fearing people. Black America has gotten so caught up into racism we don't care about Black-on-Black crime because we came the realization that it's part of our community. A community and church community that has created a disconnect which is the result of what Black America is going through today. There is no rainbow at the end of this tunnel so we better connect or associate ourselves with Something.