<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;text-align:center"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700">Please join us for this weeks UUCP Conscious Conversation with Rev. Sonia & Special Guest Co-host, Salome Raheim, Ph.D., ACSW (Implicit Bias training facilitator)</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;text-align:center"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700">Topic:</span> Understanding Implicit Bias</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;text-align:center"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700">Date:</span> Thursday, April 22</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;text-align:center"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700">Time:</span> 7:00 PM</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7">What is Implicit (or Unconscious) Bias?</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7">Implicit Bias describes the attitudes we have towards people or stereotypes associated with them without our conscious knowledge.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7">During our Sunday service “See No Stranger” we began to discuss Implicit Bias.  In this week’s Conscious Conversation, we’ll experientially explore our understanding of Implicit Bias. Join us as we come together as a conscious community to explore and expand our understanding of implicit bias and what we can do about it.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7">Prior to our meeting all participants are encouraged to do a little homework! Just 2 things:</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7">1- Watch this 12 min. video:</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7">We all have implicit biases. So, what can we do about it? | Dushaw Hockett | TEDxMidAtlanticSalon</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKHSJHkPeLY" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(55,104,155);text-decoration-line:none">YouTube Video</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7"> </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7">2 -Take 2 or 3 of the Harvard Implicit Bias Tests. There are lots of different topics to choose from.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7">The results are personal & confidential, for your knowledge only. <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700"><a href="https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(55,104,155);text-decoration-line:none">Implicit Association Test (IAT)</a></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7"><span style="font-weight:700"><br></span></p><img src="cid:ii_knp10rea0" alt="salome.png" width="143" height="170" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span><span style="font-weight:700">Salome Raheim, Ph.D., ACSW </span></p><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:16px">(OSIS Class of 2022) is an organizational consultant and trainer whose passion for advancing diversity, equity, and social justice has taken her to four continents to work with health and human services agencies, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. She is Dean Emeritus at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work and Professor Emeritus at the University at Albany—SUNY School of Social Welfare.  She is the mother of two sons, grandmother of a beautiful goddess-child, a family constellations facilitator, energy healer, and certified mindfulness instructor. She is currently attending On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