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
The Art of Teaching
The Art of Learning
Preparing the Students
Role-Play
Getting Students to Open Up
Learning the Difference Between Fact or Fiction
Developing a Beginner's Mind
Stories, Examples & Helpful Hints
Why Use It?
Personal Review — Lesson 6
Introduction
Some Helpful Teaching Units
Introduction
Where Did Prejudice Begin?
The Roots of Prejudice
What Does it Mean to Survive?
A New Threat to Survival
The Four Stages of Learning
Tool 1A: Activity
Tool 1B: Activity
Tool 1C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 11
What We're Taught to Believe
The Highest Level of Understanding
What Does "Prejudice" Mean?
What Does It Mean to Be Different?
Tool 2A: Game
Tool 2B: Roleplay
Tool 2C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 12
Our Mechanical Brain
Do We Protect, or Do We Learn?
We All Have a Mechanical Brain
Scientific Mode for Understanding
Tool 3A: Activity
Tool 3B: Activity
Tool 3C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 13
The Prejudice Within
Prejudice Begins Inside Us
Prejudice Inside Us Creates Conflict
Conflict Within Us Becomes Conflict Outside Us
Tool 4A: Activity
Tool 4B: Activity
Tool 4C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 14
When We're Asleep We Can't See
Hypnosis: The Power of Suggestion
A Time to Wake Up
Becoming Aware of Our Prejudiced Thinking
The Ten Mental Steps to War
Tool 5A: Activity
Tool 5B: Activity
Tool 5C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 15
The Bells & Knots of Conditioning
The "Fight or Flight" Response
Pavlov's Dogs
Skinner's Lesson
The Prejudice Knot
Tool 6A: Roleplay
Tool 6B: Activity
Tool 6C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 16
Elements of Knot-Like Thinking
The Wiring In Our Brain
7 Elements of Knot-Like Thinking
Conditioning vs. Education
Tool 7A: Activity
Tool 7B: Activity
Tool 7C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 17
Concepts That Numb the Brain
How Far Have We Come?
The Words We Use
Words Reveal Our Prejudices
Tool 8A: Activity
Tool 8B: Activity
Tool 8C: Game
Personal Review — Lesson 18
Generalizations Are Misleading
Words Become Attitudes
Lazy Thinking Creates Prejudice
The Shadows That Follow Us
Tool 9A: Game
Tool 9B: Activity
Tool 9C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 19
Prejudice at Its Worst
Racism
Genocide
What Prejudice Has Created
Tool 10A: Activity
Tool 10B: Activity
Tool 10C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 20
The Problem with Perfection
Striving for an Ideal
Survival of the Fittest
More Effects of Prejudice
Tool 11A: Activity
Tool 11B: Activity
Tool 11C: Role-Play
Personal Review — Lesson 21
Preventing Peace
The Problem with Trying to Be Peaceful
Eliminating What Prevents Peace
Tool 12A: Activity
Tool 12B: Activity
Tool 12C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 22
The Anatomy of Respect
Creating a Peaceful Human
Language & Training
The Intelligent Being Lives!
Personal Review — Lesson 23
The Art of Insight
Inner Imaging
X-Raying Our Perspective
Taking Responsibility
Tool 14A: Activity
Tool 14B: Activity
Tool 14C: Roleplay
Personal Review — Lesson 24
Prejudice Is an Automatic Reaction
Not Something We're Born With
Looking At Our Automatic Reactions
Three Steps to New Actions
Tool 15A: Activity
Tool 15B: Activity
Tool 15C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 25
Thinking In New Ways
A Right-Side-Up World
Pulling Out the Roots of Prejudice
Tale of the Cave
Tool 16A: Activity
Tool 16B: Activity
Tool 16C: Story
Personal Review — Lesson 26
Perception is Everything
Creating Our Own Right-Side-Up World
The Concept of "Stop! Think!"
The Path of Peace
Tool 17A: Activity
Tool 17B: Game
Tool 17C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 27
Rights & Responsibilities
What Are Our Rights?
What Are Our Responsibilities?
A Checklist to Avoid Prejudice
Tool 18A: Activity
Tool 18B: Activity
Tool 18C: Game
Personal Review — Lesson 28
Seeing the Big Picture
Recognizing Fear
It All Starts With a Thought
The Essence of Democracy
Tool 19A: Game
Tool 19B: Activity
Tool 19C: Activity
Personal Review — Lesson 29
The Discoveries We've Made
Find Out for Yourself What's True
Without Prejudiced People There Can Be No Prejudice
Personal Review — Lesson 30
Summary
Where To Use The Program
Final Assignment
Introduction
What is Prejudice?
What I'm Taught to Believe
I Have a Mechanical Brain
When We're Asleep We Can't See
The Bells & Knots of Conditioning
Elements of Knot-Like Thinking
Concepts That Numb the Brain
More Brain-Numbing Concepts
The Anatomy of Prejudice
Personal Review — Lesson 8
Introduction
Thinking in New Ways
The Path to Conflict
The Path to Peace
Healthy Thinking
Learning to Recognize Our Fear
Global Conditioning
Our Rights and Responsibilities
Checklist to Avoid Prejudice
Workbook Evaluation Form
Evaluation for Parents
Personal Review — Lesson 9