Overview Module Two

Leadership, or the role of a leader, is not an individual undertaking. However, it is essential to cultivate the practice of Critical Self Reflection to foster a culture of collectivity. 

Looking closely at your Social Location (i.e., race, gender, ethnicity, class, nationality, sexual orientation, age, religion, abilities/disabilities, language(s), geographic location, and all other aspects that interconnect you to local and global communities, co-create your identity, and position in societies) helps to see yourself more fully within your own contexts (standpoints). It also helps you to identify possible inequities, biases, and blindspots within practices, policies, interpersonal and centre cultures, as well as connect empathetically with communities within and beyond your own intersectionalities. 

As individuals are made up of, and entangled within, layers of personal, local, provincial, national, and global historicities, ‘individuality’ (not just who we are (identity), but how we act (practices and behaviours) is in fact formed by and co-composed of many influences; some being apparent while others being more subtle.