Anti-Harassment Training Does Not Work

<p>No employer wants its employees to be bullied and harassed at the workplace. On the contrary most employers offer an anti-harassment training to ensure employees understand company policy and legislation on workplace harassment. However anti-harassment training typically focuses on definitions rights of employers and employees and complaint resolution processes. While this information is essential anti-harassment training fails to allow for an interrogation of participant's social location positonality and intersectionalty (who am I). Moreover facilitators often teach anti-harassment via a neutral lens failing to understand ways in which their identities shape their pedagogy (teaching). Dr. Candy focuses on a whole person approach where participants could bring their whole self to the workshop (mind body emotions and spirit) which could potentially lead to a transformative shift moving the information from the head to the heart. A must read for those in the anti-harassment training space.</p>