How

The team of personnel at CCODE has been trained in facilitative techniques and have themselves experienced extensive diversity training. They all know that stereotyping develops as part of normal cognitive development. Through the everyday processes of life, humans develop views and beliefs about others that, of course, they believe to be correct. At CCODE, participants will learn how these views and beliefs are frequently partial, limited, incorrect and unjustifiable.

CCODE sets up a program that allows participants to hear and learn from each other. Through our dialogues, participants begin to understand one another, and begin to dissolve all conceived attitudes of intolerance, bias, and narrow mindedness. Our dialogues allow participants to safely and freely express fears and feelings and to hear the feelings, fears and concerns of others.  Through this interaction, participants will discover why people feel the way they do about certain races, religions, genders, and ethnicities.  Participants will examine how they learned the “normality” of privilege.  The concepts of dominance and subordination provide a general framework for understanding relations of power. The accompanying concept of privilege helps participants recognize the limitations of their judgments.  Participants will learn about their “isms” and their biases and stereotypes and the way these play out in their lives and in their organizations.  Choices for self-expansion are created once participants understand how limited their views are. Solutions and tactics for challenging the numerous forms of oppression, and promoting the celebration of differences are part of CCODE’s final efforts.