Immigrants & Visitors

Objectives:

• To introduce the Faces In the Crowd Workshop series.

• To introduce the concept of "the story" and how stereotypes are formed.

• To help participants begin to look introspectively at their attitudes an beliefs about other people.

• To begin to assist participants in their work place role as a service provider to the diverse consumer population they serve.

Activities:

Participants take on role of different person, role-play conversation with partner and create story based on mask identity; learn nature of the "story," They discuss stereotypes based on race, appearance, media images etc. as well as phenomenon of "invisible persons."

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Assumptions

Objectives:

• For participants to examine their own process in making assumptions about other people.

• To understand their own and others' social comfort levels.

• To apply this deeper understanding to their personal and workplace interactions with others.

Activities:

With mask identity, participants face a "pop-up" crowd and examine their assumptions based on physical appearance. Participants learn the nature of assumptions and how these assumptions are impacted by individual perspectives. Applications to work place experiences are discussed.

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Social Twister

Objectives:

• To help participants discover and examine their own decision making process regarding other people.

• To understand objective and subjective factors which influence their own decision making processes.

• To apply these insights concerning decision making to their personal and workplace experiences.

Activities:

Activities: Participants make choices and decisions concerning people (using multi-cultural cards) based on appearance and other qualities. Participants learn about how and why decisions about others are made and discuss validity of decisions and decision making process.

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