2021 High Aims Summer Institute

As professionals working with students while they make their journey through school, we have the opportunity to interact with many young people from varying backgrounds. For the professionals that thrive on teaching and assisting other people, these roles are often exhilarating.
Part of our human condition warrants that we are often prone to operate through various levels of bias in our thinking. Sometimes that thinking can inadvertently steer our thoughts, words and subsequent actions in ways we didn’t intend. Sometimes we may wrongly judge others based on our own experiences and not theirs.

In this session, participants will be guided through a series of exercises and conversations facilitated by high school students. The purpose of the chat is to help educators become more aware of potential blind spots. With information regarding identity, the Johari Window, Kahneman’s System 1 and System 2 thinking, all who participate in the session will leave with a renewed sense of personal identity alongside making authentic connections with students.