Whole Person Leadership™ for Women: Session 4

Build Trust, Examine Systemic Racism
Trust Leadership Behaviors

Trust: firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. Safe to bring your whole self forward.

Racism: exists when one race or color group:
- intentionally or unintentionally refuses to share power,
- distributes resources inequitably,
- maintains unresponsive institutional policies and procedures,
- imposes ethnocentric culture on any other race-color group for its supposed benefit,
- justifies its action, by blaming the other race-color group.
-Dr. Robert Terry

Preparation

1. Review The Art of Convening,
Chapter 7, “Essential Conversations,” p. 109-125
Meaningful exchange in an atmosphere of trust
Trust, Arc of Recognition

2. Session 4 Agenda/Preparation

3. Session materials and concepts:

Build Trust
• Trust: A Business Case
• Trust Leadership Behaviors
• Trust Self-Assessment Guide
• Trust Self-Assessment Guide.docx
> complete and bring to the session

• The Anatomy of Trust, Brene Brown video
• The Anatomy of Trust
• B.R.A.V.I.N.G
• The Trust Matrix, Richard Barrett
• References Annotation

Examine Systemic Racism
• Diversity Discussion Questions
• Diversity Discussion Questions.docx
> complete and bring to the session
• References Annotation

4. Sutra Session Journaling:
• Building Trust
• Examine Systemic Racism

After Session 4

1. Tracking Our Collective Journey research interviews
Schedule your 30-minute interview with Claudia

2. Choose a daily practice that strengthens your trustworthiness

More resources

• Guilt: Variations on a Theme
• We Were Made for These Times
• Establishing Brave Spaces
• 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development

• That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief, HBR
• Somatic Experiences
• The Difference Having a Black Boss Makes

• Implementing Inclusive Policies Across a Global Organization (DI&B), HBR