Deconstruct Unconscious Bias
Using Neuroscience & Mindfulness
By taking this course, you will gain practical knowledge, tools, and techniques to understand the widespread phenomenon of unconscious bias, to deconstruct your own biases, and to more effectively recognize, navigate, and change biased policies and systems.
Through our experiential exercises, you will learn to discern how the neural mechanisms that give rise to unconscious bias correspond to sensations in your body and to narratives in your mind, so that you can be mindful when biases arise in your everyday professional and personal life.
The course also guides you through techniques to activate neural pathways that enable you to counteract biases and more effectively engage with people whose perspectives and backgrounds may be very different from your own.
At the end of this course, you will:
This course is built around our original NOTE framework to deconstruct unconscious bias.
NOTICE the subtle signs of bias arising by being aware of associations, valence, and brain activation.
OPEN minds using curiosity to explore how biases are hard-wired into our “autopilot,” often as social narratives and life scripts.
TUNE IN to compassionately hold space to process charged emotions and calm amygdala hijacks triggered by past experiences of stigma, stereotyping, and shame.
ENGAGE by activating neural pathways that enable us to embody our core values and respond with wisdom and compassion to create a more effective, genuinely inclusive, and collaborative path forward.
The Challenge to "Know Thyself"
FREE PREVIEWThe Brain as a Key to the Unconscious
FREE PREVIEWExercise: Observe Your Associative Activation Cascade
FREE PREVIEWValence & Brain Activation
FREE PREVIEWQuiz: Which Pattern of Brain Activation Would Be Triggered by...
FREE PREVIEWBrain Activation & Exclusion or Inclusion
Quiz: Interacting in Brain 1.0, Brain 2.0, & Brain 3.0
Notice Your Brain Activation
Mindfulness Exercise to Notice
Summary
Your Autopilot
Social Narratives & Life Scripts
Reflection Exercises: Social Narratives & Life Scripts
Us vs. Them
Reflection Exercise: Us vs Them
Dominance
Reflection Exercise: Dominance
Intersectional Inequity
Reflection Exercise: Limiting Narratives and Behaviors
Summary
The Amygdala Hijack
Microaggressions Activate Brain 1.0
Icebergs
Tune In Grid with Emotions
Reflection Exercise #1: Microaggressions & Icebergs
Covering
Reflection Exercise #2: Covering
Reflection Exercise #3: Creating Safety
Summary
Recap
FREE PREVIEWBrain Activation and Behaviors
Meditation to Engage Brain 3.0
Your Inner Dialogue
Observe Your Inner Dialogue Exercises
Communicating in Brain 1.0, 2.0 & 3.0 - Case A
Communicating in Brain 1.0, 2.0 & 3.0 - Case B
Summary
Wrap & Final Reflection
Resources to Shift into Brain 3.0
How was this course?
Credits & Thanks
Due Quach
Who we are
Our mission is to guide and support people to rewire their brain and embrace their inner wisdom to improve their well-being and become inclusive leaders.
We provide training, consulting, and other resources to guide people and organizations to develop and strengthen neural networks we refer to as "Brain 3.0." Brain 3.0 is a state of brain optimization that enables people to:
We also guide leaders and organizations to harness and use Brain 3.0 to inclusively co-create transformation at the individual, organizational, community, and systemic levels that move us towards collective well-being, prosperity, and flourishing.
Our clients enable us to run non-profit programs to share the benefits of Calm Clarity with first-generation college students and schools, non-profit organizations, and workforce development programs serving low-income communities.
Currently, to create mental health equity, we are building a digital platform and a peer mentorship program to support more people to improve their well-being.
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