RE: Sensitivity training

Leonie wrote:
It's common practice for organisations to offer "sensitivity" training
to help employees with this, and I think it would be wonderful if W3C
could offer something of the sort to chairs…

While I am supportive of the idea in general, I think we need to come up with a better name for it. It is true that many organizations offer “sensitivity training” to their employees but from what I’ve heard (no personal experience with it!) – this is often “offered” as a punitive action, when someone has done/said something improper.
Since our intentions are purely educational, maybe we need to come up with a different name, but I don’t have anything to propose off the top of my head.

Thanks,
Vlad


From: Léonie Watson [mailto:lwatson@tetralogical.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2019 1:27 PM
To: Positive Work Environment Community Group <public-pwe@w3.org>
Subject: Sensitivity training

Hello PWE,

Through conversations I've had with other chairs, and through my time
volunteering for the chair buddy programme [1], I've frequently heard
people say they are unsure of the best ways to include everyone in their
group - the preferred terms to use, the best way to make people feel
welcome etc.

It's common practice for organisations to offer "sensitivity" training
to help employees with this, and I think it would be wonderful if W3C
could offer something of the sort to chairs. It has previously offered
chair training on a range of different subjects [2].

Forgive me if this idea has already been suggested, although I lurk in
the PWE, I don't participate actively and so may have missed it if it
came up before.

Léonie
[1]
[2] https://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/chairs-part4/#/<https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/ZlmnCYEnxyt0pR3UGwWE9>









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