Speaker: Irshad Manji
Conference Stream: Wellbeing for school culture
Empathetic communication skills foster trust and generate respect. In both ways, they’re vital to creating a culture of belonging in our schools.
Indeed, says Moral Courage® College founder Irshad Manji, skillful communication is the most crucial element of belonging. It fosters relationships that bring out who people are — our wholeness.
Without appreciating the individual’s wholeness, efforts to nurture belonging easily commodify people. They reflect a transactional mindset that fixates on what people are — our labels. That’s why the work of diversity readily becomes divisive.
Irshad Manji’s antidote: Diversity Without Division, which results from the Moral Courage Method of communicating across differences.
On August 21st, as part of the Flourish pre-conference, Prof. Manji will deliver an in-person interactive workshop that teaches the five core skills of Moral Courage.
As participants, you'll draw from your own lives to explore the challenge of understanding and being understood in times of high emotion. You’ll leave the workshop with a tangible tool that reinforces the skills learned.
Above all, you’ll learn how to be heard by those who disagree with you, so that diversity of views can be honoured — without the fear and anxiety that generate division.
