This bystander education course will provide employees with an understanding of how interpersonal racism continues to support and maintain systemic racism. Through scenario-based learning, participants will develop skills for recognizing racial bias and confronting discrimination. An overview of related Human Resources policies and practices will be given to support employees in actively dismantling racism within Mass General Brigham.

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Agree

Carlos Caceres replied on

I agree!

Emily Perry replied on

I agree!

Emily Perry replied on

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Emily Perry replied on

This was a great series. Very informative. The multiple viewpoints and the choose your own adventure made it interactive and meaningful. 

Alyssa Letourneau replied on

This was a very well put together presentation. It helped me gain new perspectives on the issue. 

Byung Kim replied on

Very well presented with multiple view points.

Elizabeth,M.D. Zulinska replied on

very well presented

Elizabeth,M.D. Zulinska replied on

This is such a great training material

Toshiro Hara replied on

Found videos to be helpful

Kiara Leplatte replied on

I thought this training offered skills that will help inform my practice with patients and my colleagues.

Joshua Lea replied on

very informative and important information for all of us 

Elise Vanetzian replied on

This training was very beneficial and well put together.

Grace Crotty replied on

the different aspects of systemic racism were well displayed and it definitely was infuriating at times to see how people are treated regularly in our society

Katherine Dunn replied on

thank you

Katherine Dunn replied on

It is so important to respect other's point of view and not to assume anything without asking.  Good communication always works, and is to be the goal of every team.  A more diverse team is better for the diverse patients that we have to care for.

 

Julianne Stoughton replied on

I will be much more mindful about racial issues.  I have always felt that it is better to ignore and not see color, but if we do not acknowledge it then we cannot understand what others are going through.  

Julianne Stoughton replied on

this was a helpful exercise.  

Julianne Stoughton replied on

the video scenarios were relatable and well put together, thank you! 

Margaret Odea replied on

Agree, very important!

Alison Fox replied on

Good presentation and design. There is a lot to think about and to reflect. My biggest question is how we continue to sustain and explore how racism impacts our work, our relationship with our co-workers and patients. It's fresh now, but what about in the future. The challenge is to put all of this into daily practice until it becomes a part of who we are, so when people enter the facility, they feel the change in the climate that we will listen, care for them and do out best to see and hear them.  

Wilfredo Escobar replied on

Nice to have different scenarios and viewpoints of how it could play out

Quinn Moloney replied on

Thank you.

Kai,M.D.,Mgh Saukkonen replied on

Content made it easy to appreciate issues from multiple viewpoints.

Rebecca Craffey replied on

This was an excellent reminder of how we can engage with one another and be more mindful of each other in and outside the workplace. 

Erika Aguilar replied on

This course was very informative. Racism is such an emotional topic. I am pleased that the topic is being openly discussed.

Barbara Clemons replied on

Good course

George Molina replied on

great course

Brittany Akstin replied on

This was very well done. I learned a lot especially about speaking up. 

Ivana Nikolic replied on

helpful 

Brian Wainger replied on

helpful

Brian Wainger replied on

I was upset by my fourth module specifically.  The first character wouldn't stand up for herself in fear of appearing like an "angry black woman" and her internal reaction twice played into the stereotype with shouting, finger pointing, and dismissiveness.  There was no room in the narrative for her to stand up for herself in a calm way because that kind of "executive presence" was already previously identified as problematic and white coded.  Ultimately, the black manager required a white manager to go through her own racial journey and speak for her using her "executive presence", itself a deeply racist trope called the "White Savior".

This is exactly like kind of racism that we are supposed to be working against.  A victim of racism, even internal racism like the black female manager, is unable to be a complete person in the conversation when people around them absorb responsibility for their own advocacy.  Such training shifts the onus away from the individual to confront racism against them directly and loses the key message: you must defend yourself with your own voice to be more than just a token to the racists around you.  We need to support others in standing up for themselves, not just taking over the conversation.

In that spirit, if you want this training to really hit home, make a module where a white person is the victim.  Having almost every racist in the module be white is alienating.  Even when the black male manager was racist and reported, he became a victim of the white woman's racism in the next scene.  White people seeing themselves as a victim will make them better able to relate to the message you are trying to deliver.

The second module about the janitor who didn't speak English was excellent and set a far better example.

Ian Wynyard replied on

This course did a good job of demonstrating both microracism and overt racism.  It was instructive from several viewpoints in a way that facilitates seeing how issues occur, seeing prejudice and its expressions and offers some solutions.

Julie Ingelfinger replied on

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