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The Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) has recognized The 21-Day Plan for Disarming Microaggressions as a 2022 Davey Awards Silver Winner in the category of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Today, we’re marking the passing of yet another technology - DVDs and USBs are obsolete. We are joining the modern age to say, long live online resources. And with that, we’re excited to announce a new era of choice and fulfillment: Choose the format that meets your training needs: A. Self-paced online eLearning or B. use our videos, slide decks and handouts to conduct your own instructor-led training - we call this the Do-it-Yourself Trainer’s Toolbox.

Humans have an innate need to belong. In fact, “love and belonging” are featured prominently in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This central model in psychology asserts that people are motivated by five basic categories of needs, and “belonging” (that is, the need to affiliate with and be accepted by members of a group) is right up there near things as fundamental as food and water.

“It’s hard to imagine an economy driven by Latino and Latina growth when leadership at the board level and in the C-suite is far less than 5% Latino and Latina. That gap – between the face of leadership and the face of the economy to come – is a vast strategic issue for corporations”.

By addressing our mistakes and remaining open to learning, we broaden our understanding, increase our empathy and build our capacity to do better the next time. Such is the case with microaggressions.