These are actually skills, Skills that can be developed,
But you need guidance and practice
Perfectly Adequate Human and Your Privilege Is Showing are both a framework to support participants in having direct, open, and transformative conversations about systems of power. Led by a trained facilitator, the games challenges participants to let their thinking evolve while building awareness, communication skills, and cultural competence, in a game format.
This game-based approach lowers the barrier to entry, empowers players to be vulnerable and honest, while leaving room for fun and laughter while increasing the emotional resilience of participants through focused tools and practice.
By taking present day examples of sexism, racism, ableism, and classism and asking participants to identify, name, and describe what kinds of bias are in operation, and how to interrupt that behavior, Your Privilege Is Showing and Perfectly Adequate Human challenge participants to let their thinking evolve about the ways in which they are both part of and impacted by systems of harm by taking them out of the theoretical and into the actual, personal, daily experiences of players. The framework also has mechanisms built in to discuss other participant’s choices, and disagreements.