Taking Action Against Microaggressions Micro Course Series
In these four 30-minute micro courses, speaker Noma Anderson walks you through different perspectives of experiencing microaggressions, with the goal of increasing your self-awareness of how you contribute and respond to them. Each course includes the opportunity for you to reflect as well as plan and practice the often-difficult conversations and decisions that are required to combat microaggressions.
Recognizing Microaggressions: Am I Doing That?
Experiencing microaggressions can lead to serious feelings of doubt when it comes to self-worth, productivity, and security. What are microaggressions and microbullying? Am I committing them? How do they impact the person who experiences them? This course illuminates these concepts and guides us through purposeful reflection activities that reduce the likelihood of committing microaggressions, ensuring a safer environment for our colleagues and clients, and thereby facilitating more effective communication.
This course is available for CE credit (ASHA CEUs or professional development hours) as part of the ASHA Learning Pass.
Resources
Powerpoint slides [PDF]
Activity [PDF]
Experiencing Microaggressions: How Can I Respond?
People who experience microaggressions feel a range of emotions, frequently including stress, distress, anxiety, insecurity, and decreased feelings of well-being and self-esteem. What can I do when I am a target of a microaggression? What supports can I access? How can I respond effectively? This course explores the impacts of microaggressions, provides tools for responding, and guides us through practicing effective and empowered communication strategies as well as purposeful empathy and reflection to reduce the consequences of these events.
This course is available for CE credit (ASHA CEUs or professional development hours) as part of the ASHA Learning Pass.
Resources
Powerpoint slides [PDF]
Activity [PDF]
Witnessing Microaggressions: What Can I Do?
As a bystander, we may not recognize a microaggression as it is happening, may not know what to do, or may feel uncomfortable speaking up, but a passive response can significantly exacerbate the consequences. How should we respond when we witness a microaggression? This course explores how to change our natural response as a bystander from passive to productive and guides us through practice activities to improve our ability to recognize microaggressions and increase our confidence in speaking up in support of individuals experiencing these events.
This course is available for CE credit (ASHA CEUs or professional development hours) as part of the ASHA Learning Pass.
Resources
Powerpoint Slides [PDF]
Activity [PDF]
Combatting Microaggressions: How Can I Help?
Many people believe in, support, and want to promote fairness, equity, and inclusion, but they often don't know how. What does it mean to be an ally with regards to microaggressions? This course explores practical strategies to eliminate interpersonal and institutional microaggressions and to champion fairness, equity, and inclusion for nondominant groups within our professions and the broader society.
This course is available for CE credit (ASHA CEUs or professional development hours) as part of the ASHA Learning Pass.
Resources
Powerpoint Slides [PDF]
Activity [PDF]
