Interfaith Scotland are offering a series of workshops on how to work with religious diversity.

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‍1. Introduction to Working with Religious Diversity - Thu 15 Jul, 1030-1230

Interactive workshop on improving our confidence in discussing and responding to the religion and belief of those we work with.

2. Advantage is invisible - understanding unintentional discrimination- Thu 29 Jul, 1030-1230

Reflective course exploring why discrimination is common even when our intentions are to work fairly with everyone.

3. Intention versus impact - exploring challenges around group labels and unintended offence - Wed 25 Aug, 1330-1530

Interactive session exploring the terminology used to describe groups of people and how we can respond when unintended offence is caused.

4. Debiasing our systems, debiasing ourselves - an introduction to tackling unconscious bias - Tue 14 Sep, 1030-1300Interactive course exploring the evidence of unconscious bias and methods for reducing its impact on our decisions, behaviour and processes.

5. Interpreting culture – improving cross-cultural communication - Thu 14 Oct, 1030-1300

An explorative session on the differences between cultures and how that diversity shapes the way we understand each other's behaviour.

6. 3 mottos for equality, diversity & inclusion - Wed 17 Nov, 1300-1630Popular course, spanning a wide range of equality issues. We explore three simple guides to improve how we work with human diversity. (covers the same content as sessions 2 & 3)

7. Working with People from Diverse Religious Backgrounds- Tue 14 Dec, 1300-1630

An engaging course exploring how to engage with people from many religion and belief identities, focusing on six main faiths. (covers the same material as session 1 and more)