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Beyond Implicit Bias

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A 90-minute interactive session that moves beyond awareness training to reveal how implicit bias actually works—and what organizations can really do about it. Learn why trainings on just “being aware of your biases" don’t work, and how to design environments that are responsive to the cognitive and cultural roots of bias.

A 90-minute interactive session that moves beyond awareness training to reveal how implicit bias actually works—and what organizations can really do about it. Learn why trainings on just “being aware of your biases" don’t work, and how to design environments that are responsive to the cognitive and cultural roots of bias.

Why This Training Matters

Implicit bias training has become ubiquitous—but most of it doesn't work. Organizations invest in sessions that ask people to "be aware of their biases" and send them back to work, expecting change. Research shows this approach fails because it misunderstands what implicit bias actually is.

Implicit bias isn't a curable condition. It's a cognitive process shaped by culture.

You can't train away the way brains categorize information. But you can design environments, systems, and practices that reduce the operation and impact of bias. This training shows you how.

 

What You’ll Learn

1. Implicit Bias: Why the "Plus"?

  • What implicit bias actually is (and isn't)

  • Why "awareness training" doesn't change behavior

  • The connection between implicit bias, structural racism, and systemic oppression

  • Why focusing on individual bias without addressing structures maintains dysfunction

2. The Science: How Our Brains Work

  • The cognitive architecture behind implicit bias—how brains process information, build associations, and make quick judgments

  • Why these processes aren't "natural excuses" for harm but mechanisms we can design around

  • The difference between implicit processes and the structural consequences they enable

3. The Context: How Culture Shapes Categories

  • How historical and structural inequities create the content of our biases

  • The role of media, socialization, and everyday experiences in building harmful associations

  • Why implicit bias only matters because of systemic oppression—not separate from it

4. Organizational Implications: Beyond Individual Awareness

  • How organizations misuse implicit bias concepts (spoiler: awareness alone doesn't work)

  • What research actually shows about reducing bias in decision-making

  • Designing systems that interrupt bias: structured processes, accountability mechanisms, and environmental interventions

  • Moving from "fix the people" to "fix the systems people operate in"

5. Collaboration Across Difference

  • Practical frameworks for navigating interpersonal dynamics without leaning on implicit bias as a crutch

  • Building team practices that acknowledge power, create psychological safety, and support collaboration despite difference

  • Tools for addressing harm when it occurs—without blaming "unconscious bias" as an escape hatch