Activity 13: Micro-intervention Strategies against Micro-aggressions

Activity 13: Micro-intervention Strategies against Micro-aggressions

Objective: This exercise equips the participants with micro-intervention strategies to defend themselves and others when experiencing or witnessing a micro-aggression and make the perpetrator aware of their behavior.

Duration: 90 minutes

Group size: up to 15 (a number preferably dividable by 3)

Material: Presentation

Method: Theory, discussion, roleplay, reflection

Recommendation: We advise that participants have already participated in previous training to gain awareness of what micro-aggressions are (or are acquainted with the topic already).

Sources: This training is modeled after the strategies discussed in “Disarming Racial Micro-aggressions: Microintervention Strategies for Receivers, White Allies, and Observers” by Derald Wing Sue Sarah Alsaidi, Michael N. Awad, Elizabeth Glaeser, Cassandra Z. Calle, and Narolyn Mendez.

Target groups: Observers, Receivers

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