4 ways to have healthy conversations about race | Afrika Afeni Mills

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Learning how to have productive conversations about race is a necessary part of the human experience. Educator Afrika Afeni Mills says the best place to start is in the classroom -- because the earlier these skills are taught, the fewer biases there are to unlearn. She shares four actionable lessons to help people overcome their fear and take on these conversations at any age. After the talk, Modupe shares questions to ask ourselves to have more open conversations at work.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.0	I don't know about you, but it can be hard to figure out how I'm feeling from day to day
0:13.9	or heck from moment to moment.
0:17.2	And that's because it can be difficult to identify my emotions.
0:21.4	In fact, that's what therapists spend a lot of time doing, trying to get people to understand
0:28.4	their emotions.
0:30.4	I know this from personal experience because let me tell you, I am an emotion suppressor,
0:37.6	or at least I used to be.
0:40.3	My therapist would ask me how I'm feeling, and I would say, tired.
0:46.1	Her response, tired, is not an emotion.
0:50.5	Being in touch with my emotions regularly is challenging, especially in the workplace.
0:56.3	It takes a lot of effort to be introspective when you're played as full and you're running
1:01.1	from meeting to meeting.
1:03.3	But so much of the work we do is influenced by how we're feeling and how we manage our
1:08.6	emotions.
1:10.6	This is even more relevant when dealing with challenging situations and difficult conversations
1:16.4	about performance, about people, and about so many other structural issues like race
1:23.0	and gender.
1:25.0	So how do we get better at having open conversations in our organizations and not be controlled
1:31.7	by our emotions in the process?
1:37.6	I'm Madu Baccanola, this is Ted Business.
1:41.4	Our speaker today is Educator Africa Affainty Mills.
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