THE POWER OF DIFFERENCE ASSESSMENT (PDA)
~Susan Bro, President, Chairperson, and Co-Founder of the Heather Heyer Foundation (mother of Heather Heyer):
“The Power of Difference Assessment was so helpful in clarifying my unconscious perspectives as well as my strengths related to each of these seven differences. The end result was a practical and powerful roadmap for my on-going and deepening learning.”
A Groundbreaking Online Tool that:
- Measures individual’s and group’s unconscious patterns related to race, sexual orientation, religion, gender, disability, class, and culture according to the Power of Difference Model (click “Model” below for more detail).
- Asset-based and scientifically valid and reliable assessment.
- Identifies areas of strength and specific areas for growth.
- Can be used as a pre and post measurement, strategic plan accountability, or as a coaching tool.
Benefits:
- The PDA supports people in becoming aware of how the patterns of the PDM operate within us, between us, in our communities, and organizations.
- It gives us a kind of “map” of our patterns and our learning edges–without blame and shame!
- This awareness makes it possible for us to integrate the assets all three primary patterns for greater effectiveness across differences and greater clarity of purpose.
The Power of Difference Model (PDM) in 4 Points
1. The PDM identifies 3 primary patterns of behavior, thought, feeling, and worldview related to our differences of race, sexual orientation, gender, socio-economic class, religion, disability, and ethnicity. We call these patterns: Sensitivity, Oneness, and Strength
2. Each one has assets and limitations as well a learning edge. The primary learning edge for Sensitivity is Strength, for Strength it’s Oneness, and for Oneness it’s Sensitivity
3. These patterns operate unconsciously within us, between us, in our communities, organizations, and society. They both reproduce and are reproduced from systems embedded with the same patterns. Each appears to conflict with the other two and this tension between them effectively creates and maintains a “dysfunctional balance” within us, in our families, organizations, cultures, and institutions.
4. The Power of Difference Assessment is a reliable tool for identifying these internal patterns as described by the PDM. By becoming aware of them and by learning to integrate and “leverage” the assets of all three patterns, individuals report greater:
- effectiveness across difference
- flexibility to leverage assets from any or all of the patterns as needed
- recognition of one’s own privilege and how to use it effectively
- Impact, generally, across differences as intended
- solidarity across differences
- pride without prejudice
- ability to refuse silence and violence.
- ability, clarity, and courage to withdraw participation in violent aspects of systems
- capacity to catalyze meaningful systemic change w/o effort
- internal stability…less rising and falling on external conditions
- clarity, empowerment, and fulfillment
- ability to hold others accountable to increased internal integration w/o blame or shame
Leave us a message or email us if you’d like to take the PDA (DEI/HR personnel are free). New pricing of $117 per person for nonprofits, government, healthcare, education, and law enforcement. $187 for businesses. We will email you access information within 24 hours.
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