How to Create Belonging with Amena Chaudhry

How to create belonging starts with understanding that most of us don’t know what belonging really is. It’s hard to create something that you haven’t first experienced and there is a difference between intellectually understanding vs experiencing something. What most of us do experience is strong conditioning from a young age around fitting in - to our families, in our school, and, ultimately, in society. This “fitting in” is part of how we are taught to uphold oppressive social systems because creates a faux belonging that activates our need for belonging but only fills it by exclusion. So, no wonder this is a struggle for many organizations and why we need help to understand and create it. In this episode of Unlimited, I invited Amena Chaudhry to join me in a conversation about how to create belonging in a true way for all.Some of what we talk about in this episode includes:What is belonging?Fitting in vs belongingDisrupting social normsBuilding emotional literacyLeadership skills for DEI & antiracism workLINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:The Myth of Normal by Gabor MatéThe Culture Code by Daniel CoyleThe Wake Up by Michelle Mijung KimThe Roundtable Talk by Meena MalikCONNECT WITH AMENA CHAUDHRY:WebsiteLinkedInArt of Interrupting Racism workshopCONNECT WITH VALERIE:WebsiteInstagramFacebookFree ResourcesGet email updates! Send us Fan MailSupport the show