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Focus On Changing People’s Behaviors, Not Their Values
Some people may think that when I train for inclusion and equity in an organization, I’m there to put my personal values on people. No way. I’m not in the business to change people’s values. It’s their behaviors that I’m trying to work with them on. “To change any behavior, we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.” -Henna Inam Getting Real About People’s Values Over three decades ago when I started in homophobia work, I was naïve enough to think that I could change people’s values, to let them know how wrong they were because they were so homophobic. Then reality…