Creating a Culture of Inclusion: Stage One - Inclusion Safety
Building a Foundation of Acceptance and Belonging
Introduction
- Psychological Safety: Understanding the Four Stages
- Stage One: Inclusion Safety
- Central Question: Do you feel included?
- Inclusion Safety satisfies the basic human need to be accepted and valued
Defining Inclusion Safety
- Inclusion Safety means being accepted for who you are
- Accepting unique attributes and defining characteristics
- Creating a safe environment where individuals can be themselves
- Not excluding based on personal attributes or characteristics
Increasing Inclusion Safety
- Assess the current level of inclusion safety
- Consider the experiences of team members
- Work towards increasing the level of inclusion safety
- Sustain inclusion safety through ongoing efforts
Lessons from History
- Frederick Douglass and the Composite Nation speech
- Loyalty to humanity over race
- Elevating inherent worth as the basis for inclusion
- Avoiding the division caused by applying worthiness tests
Personal Experiences: Inclusion Safety in Action
- Growing up among the Navajo
- Acknowledging and appreciating differences
- Maintaining inclusion safety despite cultural disparities
- Being injured in a football game
- Inclusion safety revoked based on worthiness test
- Car dealership experience and soc-economic status
Creating a Culture of Inclusion
- Comparison and competition hinder connection
- Applying a worth test to promote inclusion
- Subordinating other human differences to the human family
- Exclusion only justified when harm is threatened
Installing Inclusion Safety
- Modeling and rewarding inclusive behaviors
- Applying a worth test to team members
- Including individuals as part of the human family
- Inclusion safety as an entitlement and human right