Understand the Roots of Prejudice
In this self-paced course, you'll learn about the source, nature, and structure of conflict. You'll learn to recognize how we sustain conflict through conditioned thinking and actions.
This is a self-directed, self-paced course that looks at the roots of prejudice. Review the lessons below.
Understanding the Roots of Prejudice
The Importance of Understanding What Prevents Peace
Why Are They Always Picking on Us?
Q&A
Course Materials
Course Description
What is Prejudice?
Discovery 1
The 4 Stages of Learning
Discovery 2
Chapter 1 — Where Prejudice Began
Discovery 3
Discovery 4
What Does it Mean to Survive?
Growth: A New Threat to Survival
Discovery 5
Discovery 6
The Birth of Prejudice
A World Without Prejudice
The Human Rainbow
Discovery 7
Discovery 8
Chapter 2 — What We're Taught to Believe
Discovery 9
Discovery 10
What Does It Mean to Be Different?
Chapter 3 — Our Mechanical Brains
Discovery 11
Personal Review — Lesson 1
How Do We Become Prejudiced?
Chapter 4 — When We're Asleep, We Can't See
Discovery 12
The Effect of Brainwashing
Discovery 13
Become Aware of Our Prejudiced Thinking
Discovery 14
Band-Aids and Revolving Doors
Chapter 5 — The Bells & Knots of Conditioning
Discovery 15
Fear Makes Negative Images Stick
Discovery 16
The Prejudice Knot
Chapter 6 — Elements of Knotted Thinking
Discovery 17 — Let's Reflect
Our Ancestors Are Us
Discovery 18
Personal Review — Lesson 2
What are the Effects of Your Prejudice?
Chapter 7 — The Conditioned Mind is a Dangerous Mind
How Far Have We Come?
Discovery 19
What Prejudice Has Created
Discovery 20
Chapter 8 — The Problem With Perfection
Discovery 22
Our Robotic Nature
Discovery 23
Personal Review — Lesson 3
Can We Get Free of Our Prejudice?
Chapter 10 — Taking Time to Stop
Discovery 24
2 Ways to Get Free of Prejudice
Discovery 25
Taking Responsibility
Discovery 26
Choosing Responsibility Over Blame
Discovery 27
Chapter 11 — Prejudice is a Decision
Discovery 28
Chapter 12 — Thinking In New Ways
Discovery 29 — Let's Reflect
Conditioning in Global Proportions
Discovery 30
A Checklist to Avoid Prejudice
Personal Review — Lesson 4
The Art of Teaching
Reflections on Teaching
Working with the Present Moment
Being Childlike
The Arts of Questioning Intelligently
Proprioception of Thought
The Art of Dialogue
What Are the Guidelines of Dialogue?
Socratic Questioning
Response vs Reaction
Personal Review — Lesson 5