Allyship in Practice: Recognizing Privilege and Leveraging It for Equity

Description:

This interactive workshop invites participants to explore the concept of allyship through the lens of privilege, power, and responsibility within academic medicine and healthcare environments. Rather than focusing solely on intent, the session emphasizes the impact of actions and the ways in which unexamined privilege can shape decision-making, professional interactions, and institutional culture.

Participants will engage in guided reflective activities designed to help them identify visible and invisible forms of privilege, examine how privilege operates in clinical, educational, and leadership settings, and consider how it can be intentionally and ethically leveraged to support equity-seeking individuals and communities. Drawing on narrative humility, lived experience and informed discussion, the workshop creates space for honest dialogue while maintaining psychological safety.

This workshop is part of the Schulich CPD-EDID Workshop Series. Schulich faculty are priority registrants but it is open to all Western faculty, all health professions educators and all learners in the health professions.

For more information, visit: EDID Workshop Series or contact us at cpdedidteam@groups.uwo.ca 

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