What We Do Not See: Exploring What We Leave at the Door With Lee Mun Wah
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**Please Note - the live version of this workshop was 3 hours in length. The recording is significantly shorter as we did not record the group work that went on in breakout rooms. W
e recommend you plan to watch this workshop with another person, or with a small group of others so that you can participate in the group exercise's sprinkled throughout.
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We often communicate without noticing the impact of our communication. And, we also become polarized in our opinions and compete for the truth. It is seldom that we question our assumptions and too often miss what is not only being said, but what is not. In this workshop, we will explore the many ways our implicit and explicit biases affect our relationships and sense of safety. What we will also learn is the importance of mindfully listening, noticing the impact we have on others, learning to be curious instead of being defensive, adversarial, or in denial.We will come to learn how hearing each other’s stories and experiences will enhance our sense of community and compassion for those who are different from ourselves.
In this workshop we will learn:
Noticing the intent & impact of all our communicationsLearning the importance of using inquiries instead of statements
How to de-escalate conflict/disagreement
Racial Assessment
Exploring Implicit and Explicit Bias
What We Leave at the Door
Exploring and honoring our differencesLearning the art of curiosity & self-reflection
9 Healthy Ways to CommunicateThe art of empathy
Mindfully Listening & Culturally Responding
The art of apologizing
Truly taking responsibility and working towards change
Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folkteller, educator, community therapist and master diversity trainer. For more than 25 years he was a resource specialist and counselor in the San Francisco Unified School District. He later became a consultant to private schools, working with students that had severe learning and behavioral issues. Lee Mun Wah is now the Executive Director of Stirfry Seminars & Consulting, a diversity training company that provides educational tools and workshops on issues pertaining to cross-cultural communication and awareness, mindful facilitation, and conflict mediation techniques. Thousands of people from government and social service agencies, corporations and educational institutions have taken Lee Mun Wah’s workshops and partnered with Stirfry Seminars & Consulting on their diversity initiativesHis first film, Stolen Ground, about the experience of Asian Americans, won honorable mention at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and his most famous film about racism, The Color of Fear, won the Gold Medal for Best Social Studies Documentary. Part Two of this film, Walking Each Other Home, won the Cindy Competition Silver Medal for Social Science. In 1995, Oprah Winfrey did a one-hour special on Lee Mun Wah’s life and work that was seen by over 15 million viewers internationally.
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