- Toolkits
- Are You Ready to Talk?
- Beyond the Line
- Blocking Gender Bias
- Edgy Veggies
- First-Gen Ascend
- Fishbowl Discussions
- Measuring Mobility
- Peaceful Politics
- Plot the Me You Want to Be
- RaceWorks
- Rethinking Stress
- Space Reface
- Team Up Against Prejudice
- United States of Immigrants
- Kit Companion: Map Your Identities
- Kit Companion: LARA
- Collections
- Action Areas
- About
fishbowldiscussions
You Are
A person who wants to facilitate an honest conversation between people from different cultural backgrounds
The Problem
People are often reluctant or don’t know how to ask and answer candid questions about their identities
The Solution
The fishbowl discussion format helps people ask and answer sensitive questions about one another
The Result
Knowledge increases, comfort rises, biases lessen, and empathy grows, leading to more respect and less discrimination between groups
How to Do This Activity (~2 hours)
Facilitators should complete the Are You Ready to Talk? toolkit before moderating a fishbowl discussion
1. Introduce discussion norms
2. Guide participants into groups
3. Develop questions
4. Seat the groups in “fishbowls” of two concentric circles
5. Help Group A ask questions of Group B
6. Help Group B ask questions of Group A
7. Facilitate a conversation about the experience
8. Share your story (optional)
OPTIONAL: If you want to evaluate the impact of this toolkit, you will need participants to complete the pre-toolkit survey before doing the toolkit activities and the post-toolkit survey after doing the activities.
Content Developers
Alana Conner, Ph.D.
Danny Alvarez
Dereca Blackmon
Amedeo Tumolillo
Hazel Rose Markus, Ph.D.
Design Lead
Juli Sherry
Funders
