A Psychological Understanding of Bias & The Impact on Racism and Marginalization (INC-005)

Overview

Delivery method

Virtual classroom

Duration

2 hours

Audience

Employees

Description

This proposed one-and-a-half-hour education session for Justice Canada will provide attendees with a psychological understanding of bias, with a focus on factors that impact our beliefs, and as a result our emotional reactions to people and the behavioral choices we make to engage with them. Bias (conscious or not) is held by diverse groups of people; about themselves and those around them. And yet despite the commonality of this type of thinking, the stigma of identifying it carries great weight and so often are not addressed. The lack of mindfulness to our own thought processes and factors that influence it, can and does have significant impact on our ability to remain impartial, despite good intentions of remaining “colour blind”. A lack of mindfulness on our thinking, and factors that influence it create a high risk of racism and discrimination in our work with diverse people and communities, often further perpetuating marginalization experienced by racialized and non-dominant cultural communities.

Presented by: Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination Secretariat in collaboration with the Centre of Expertise for Learning and Professional Development (CoELPD).

Facilitator(s): Dr. Rehman Abdulrehman, Clinical and Consulting Psychologist

Registration deadline: 5 working days prior to the course date.

Accommodation measures:

The Department of Justice is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free learning environment. If you have any accessibility needs in order to fully participate in the training activity, please contact your manager to discuss your needs. You may also call upon the services of the Centre for Workplace Access-Ability, Health and Wellness to help identify what type of accommodation measures you require.

For more information: Contact the Centre of Expertise for Learning and Professional Development.

Participants are responsible for adding their training activities to their Outlook calendars

Accreditation by Law Societies:

For information about the continuing professional development (CPD) hours for this course, please consult the 2024 Accreditation Summary.

If you have questions about the accreditation by law societies below, please contact the Accreditation team.