Advocacy in Global Community: Influence of Values, Beliefs, and Biases
Discussion Post:
Describe how your personal values, beliefs, and biases influenced your advocacy project. Explain how you might use this information in revising your advocacy project. Then, describe 1–2 additional social issues you would like to address in the future through advocacy and how they connect with your personal values and beliefs.
Read the “Self-Appraisal” section on page 370 of the Rose (2020) article.
Using the prompts as a guide, evaluate where you stand in your development of advocacy competencies.
Consider your advocacy project and the extent to which your personal values, beliefs, and biases influenced your work.
Learning Resources:
Rose, J. S. (2020). Advocacy and social justice within and on behalf of the LGBTGEQIAP+ community. Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 14(4), 362–373.
Advocacy in Global Community Week 6- Disc 2
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Advocacy in Global Community- Discussion Post
My values, beliefs, and biases influenced my advocacy project in various ways. For instance, my values influenced how I used messaging and framed my project. Certainly, I used a language that resonates with my values in persuading other people. Secondly, my values motivated me and gave me the resilience to remain committed to my course. My beliefs enabled me to go for alliances and support from like-minded people and organizations that align with my belief systems. My biases led me to alienate people who failed to align with my biases, which did more harm than good. Additionally, my biases led me to unintentionally exclude a few people from the project, which I aim to correct in future advocacy projects.
In a bid to revise and improve my efforts in my advocacy project, I might use this information in self-reflection. I will take time to comprehend how my values, beliefs, and biases influenced my project. Secondly, I might use this information to look for diverse perspectives by seeking people with different values and beliefs from the ones I possess (SCIAF, 2018). Finally, I might use this information to analyze and strategize how I use messaging and fra...