Microaggressions
Everyday slights, put-downs, and insults that people of color, women, LGBTQ+ populations, and other marginalized people experience in their day-to-day interactions.
What are microaggressions?
How you feel about yourself in a specific situation or task
What is self confidence?
The overall feeling you have about yourself
You act with mental, moral, or physical strength even when you know things are difficult or scary.
What is Bravery?
Showing concern for others - understanding their point of view and helping
What is compassion?
True or False: Microaggressions are only intentional and are only verbal.
FALSE: Microaggressions can be intentional or unintentional, and they can be communicated verbally or nonverbally.
Self confidence is based on these - formed from memories or reactive feelings in our bodies
What are concepts?
Building your self esteem can help build this
What is overall self-confidence?
You like to laugh and bring smiles to other people.
What is Humor?
Unwanted, aggressive, repetitive behavior that aims to create an imbalance of power between the bully and target
What is bullying?
FALSE: These aggressions add up and can cause extreme discomfort, sadness, and hurt. ("Death by a thousand nicks" analogy).
A way to help your brain incorporate new information into a concept - combatting negative thoughts about a situation
What is confronting the Boogie Monster or reframing thoughts (positive self talk)?
People who lack self esteem can become this
What is a bully or an aggressor?
You come up with new and original ways to think about and do things.
What is Creativity?
True or False: You can be unkind and not be bullying.
TRUE
Shut it down, ask for more info, or pretend you don't understand.
What can you do when you experience or witness a microaggression?
This makes progress (not perfection!)
What is practice?
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome
What is anxiety?
You value each member of your group and inspire people to do their best.
What is Leadership?
A person who may witness someone else being bullied who feels stress and other unpleasant feelings due to the situation
What is a bystander?
Challenge the stereotype, express your feelings ("That's hurtful," or "That is a hurtful assumption.")
How can you respond to microaggressions?
This athlete said, "You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed."
Who is Lebron James?
Holding yourself in positive regard even if something is hard or stressful
What is high self-esteem?
You believe that all people have value. You approach situations with an unbiased mindset and treat everyone with respect.
What is Fairness?
Stop and take deep breaths
Consider how we are feeling and why
Options - what can we do?
Plan - what are the steps
Evaluate our reaction - how did it go?
What is the SCOPE strategy (strategy to help us calm our emotions and react to what is happening in a helpful way)?