So...I've been really disturbed by the way the coaching we're being offered is really pretty squarely in therapy category, not coaching. Coaching is about current and future. Therapy is about past. We should not be talking about relationship with parents. culturesync.net/coaching-vs-th…
Apparently this is a #tech & #STEM thing to conflate the two? It is really NOT trauma-informed, though. As a pediatrician who has worked in emergency medicine, I know a bit too much about what goes on inside homes. Parents and family are not benign topics
This captures it: wounds can be deep & raw. We're in a pandemic with high death toll, uncertainty about travel and visas (highly international cohort), uncertainty about program itself, some places under military lockdown, financial crisis. Many triggers
Me being me, have strongly communicated my concern about the approach - whether sufficient thought given to how these chaotic and unsettled times causing or surfacing PTSD. I just don't see how any of it is trauma-informed. We know: tea.texas.gov/about-tea/othe…
In particular, we know right now there is high stress on racial issues and racism itself is source of trauma yet "Many White people are socialized to demonstrate non-racist values by not talking about race" so if no racial diversity in coaches = gap/lack.
Reading #BlackintheIvory & being in grad school, abundantly clear that #academia is inadequately equipped to support students of any age or stage for the level of rawness and new or re-surfaced trauma right now. If also unable to differentiate between therapy & coaching too..
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@ErinMarieMHCMEd@danpreston@JoshuaMZeitz@AmandaMarcotte All of this was already tested out vs American Muslims - the country was just fine with it. Regardless of what you think of the dad, killing/executing American citizen children by drone, along with father, should have been a big red flag on due process.
@ErinMarieMHCMEd@danpreston@JoshuaMZeitz@AmandaMarcotte ~Half of Americans approve of/support torture. The idea is you can use profiling/bias to assume someone is a terrorist or sympathizes with terrorists, assume has information, torture them first, then retroactively justify violation of human rights.
pandemic killed >1 million dead but CDC has removed mask mandate & FL just refused to order vaccines=no interest in saving lives/prevention 9/11 killed 3K➡️police state
I think I need to go to law school. It might be a bit late to be #RBG & make it to SCOTUS… but seriously, it is all about the courts, the law, legal precedents.
Or maybe I just need to make myself small/silent enough to be able to fit into a government job again?
As hard as it is for me to stay in government long term given all the regulations that box you in/tie you up
plus needing to be a public servant to serve every taxpayer, even the ones you don’t agree with/like
Despite that, you *can* have an impact…small things at scale matter
There are times like this I want to be a cat & have 9 lives because there SO too many things I want to do…
…even though other times I am like, okay, how long exactly am I supposed to serve in this life because I am exhausted. (Albeit I did just recover from anemia.)
For the first time in my life I felt unsafe doing #GOTV & got personally targeted & my photo posted on a QAnon type site.
More appalling was how many on #healthcare & #academia, if you are connected on social media like FB, are pro-violence & anti-rule of law & support J6.
We *need* the ppl who typically enjoy more safety to step up. It feels “ick” to report, like you are an informant in Nazi Germany or something, but it is opposite: being “nice” & “not controversial” & “let’s all get along”
➡️empowers bullies
Anyone who did not see this coming does not understand #tech…(which includes people who design #AI).
“Important nuances were lost in translation when a rule commonly used to measure disparate impacts on protected groups in hiring was codified for easy-to-use tools…AI fairness”
Every time I see “our #AI will solve bias! Give us your #DEI budget!” win an #innovation award, accelerator, #hackathon I feel exhausted…
institutions would rather purchase ineffective & worsening-the-problem #tech than hard work of holding ppl accountable or change culture
And this is how #DEI - how currently approached - is ineffective & wastes money because a small amount of money is thrown at it with zero/minimal real hard work & unwillingness to be uncomfortable. Hence these bills: amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/01/19…
When will we admit that “clash of civilizations” of Islamophobia narrative is not only false but dangerous. “War on Terror”=waging war vs Muslims but #J6 & #BuffaloMassacre reveal terror is not one religion. When Muslims are “legit” targets…that supremacist hate spreads further.
The “Great Replacement” is an extension of “Clash of Civilizations” that conflict/war is “inevitable” between “different” humans defined by race or religion. It dehumanizes some humans as “less than” or “threat.” Once you label as such, violence follows. vox.com/science-and-he…