Diversity Part II

Last week I held my creative session at Re-vision Labs in Seattle with a fabulous cast of participants who brought professional and personal experience to the topic of bringing and maintaining a vibrant diversity in community. We started with a 3 minute brainstorm around the question:

"In what ways might we define diversity"

We came up with 28 types of diversity, each of which would have a positive effect on community assuming goodwill, willingness to learn, motivation to contribute and acceptance of diverse backgrounds, lifestyles and perspectives. Many questions were explored and answered like:

"In what ways might diversity enhance a community"

• We can learn new things
• We can work together toward larger goals than we could achieve individually
• We can share our personal assets - our skills, our time, our knowledge, our possessions
• We can recognize our commonalities amongst the differences and broaden our perspectives
• We become people who are more willing to open ourselves to possibility
• Diverse communities can be a model for world peace