Who is this course for?

• Anyone who wants to understand how their brain works
• Anyone looking for effective science-based tools to understand, address, and counteract unconscious biases
• Anyone seeking tools to heal internalized oppression and break free of self-limiting patterns and beliefs related to experiences of discrimination, marginalization, and stigma. 

What will you gain?

You will gain practical knowledge, tools, and techniques to deconstruct your own biases and 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. This will enable you to be mindful when biases and internalized oppression 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 internalized oppression and more effectively engage with people whose perspectives and backgrounds may be very different from your own.

This course enables you to: 

• Experience how the associative activation of neural pathways gives rise to unconscious bias.
• Observe and sense how biases are are associated with three patterns of brain activation.
• Identify patterns for “universal” biases that are hard-wired into the human brain, which also serve as mechanisms for unconsciously internalizing oppression.
• Discern when people use covering as a defense mechanism to protect themselves from bias and stigma 
• Understand the effects of social conditioning, power dynamics, and intersectionality on career progression, and apply neuroscience and mindfulness to address and counter these effects.

Time Required:

It will take about 5-8 hours to complete the course, depending on how much time you invest in doing the exercises  and practicing the techniques.