Forum Discussion
Diversity and Inclusion scenarios
Inclusive language should be doable as a scenario. It might be a series of short (or even one-decision) scenarios where you choose what to say. You don't need to offer really offensive options as choices, but you could differentiate between truly inclusive language and "well meaning but unintentionally offensive" language.
For example, you could do something like this:
You accidentally use the wrong pronoun and call George a she. What do you say next?
A. "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry! I know you're a man and use he/his pronouns. I'm really working so hard on getting it right, and I didn't mean to misgender you."
B. "Oops, he said..."
C. "I'm sorry, I meant to say "he." It's so tricky to remember the right pronoun, isn't it?"
If people haven't done a fair amount of DEI work already, it may not be obvious that B is the right answer there.
You wouldn't even necessarily need to continue the scenario on the same path or with the same conversation after that choice. You could just change the scene and jump to a new conversation with a new issue to respond to.
Does that help?
Hi Christy,
Thanks a lot for the suggestion.
I like the idea of developing multiple, one decision scenarios. I'll work on that.
Thanks a lot for your ideas and suggestions :)