September 2017 update from the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Task Force


Facilitating from privilege Rhizome

This activity can be met with resistance from an individual who has difficulty in accepting that they enjoy unearned (and unasked) privileges. At the same time Power Flower can evoke strong feelings in the participants. The may feel angry, guilty or develop a strong sense of helplessness.


Flower Power

After doing the Power Flower exercise with groups in equity trainings for many years, Mia has now made the tool available for anyone to use on their own or within their own communities. Freedom Lifted has released a FREE mini-course on using the Power Flower to explore identity. After doing the Power Flower exercise with groups in equity.


FLOWER POWER! Collaborative project Art Enrichment Everyday MAY

Power Flower Activity The Power Flower is a visual tool that we can use to explore how our multiple identities combine to create the person we are. Instructions: Each person fills out their own power flower, identifying different aspects of their own identities in a number of categories. (Colourful markers or paper are always a bonus!).


Mrs. Egley's Kindergarten Flower Power

The "Power Flower" is a self-reflection tool developed by Canadian social change educators, published in Educating for a Change (1991). This tool helps us reflect on the intersecting aspects of our identity in relation to the centre of power/privilege in society. Each petal of the flower represents one facet or category of social identity.


Flower PowerGames to Strengthen Vocabulary & Core

3 What's Next? What Participants Are Saying about Using the Power Flower to Explore Identity Identifying My Identity Kathy Merlino This was extremely helpful with tools, which caused me to think about all the categories that make up my identity. None of us are simply one thing or anothe.


Flower power matching file folder game 8/8 File folder games, File

The Power Flower illustrates our social identities and the ways in which we experience power, privilege, and oppression in society in intersecting ways. Each petal of the flower represents a category of our social identity (for example, gender, race, and class). Each petal contains an inner section and an outer section.


Flower Power Activity Flowers Power Photos

Power flower Time: 45 minutes Goal or purpose: To support groups and individuals to recognise how their own social identity does - or doesn't - align with those most powerful in society. Preparation/materials: Before the workshop, draw a blank version of the 'power flower' on flip chart paper.


30+ Flower Activities for Toddlers Science for toddlers, Art

The power flower reflection activity. University of Waterloo 1 This resource is licensed under a creative common's license, CC-BY-NA-SA 4.0.


20 Fabulous Flower Activities Crafty Kids at Home

One exercise for undertaking an inventory of personal and professional privilege is the power flower (Arnold et al., 1991). Designed in the early 1990s by a group of social justice educators, this activity asks participants to consider their own positioning relative to the dominant group across a range of social justice categories.


Privilege Power Flower Activity Flowers Power Photos

bring to our exercise of leadership and alliance building. This activity serves as an introduction and is best used and adapted to accompany a deeper dive into intersectionality and power dynamics as outlined in the Power Flower. Time: 1 hour 45 minutes


Privilege Power Flower Activity Flowers Power Photos

The power flower The visual shows a flower with 16 petals labelled in clockwise order from the top: race, ethnic group, language, religion, education, family, social class, age group, ability/disability. gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, indigenous/settler, geographic region (current), geographic region (origin) and


EDACTIVISM The Power Flower Ontario Institute for Studies in

Purpose: The Power Flower explores our intersecting identities and the ways that they contribute to both oppression and privilege, illustrating how power is relational and always dynamic. Intersectionality shapes our potential for both exercising authority and becoming compelling, collaborative and transformative organizers and leaders.


Flower Power Worksheet Flowers Power Photos

The "Power Flower" is a tool developed by Canadian social change educators when working with groups to "identify who we are (and who we aren't) as individuals and as a group in relation to those who wield power in our society." (Educating for a Change, p.


Flower Science Experiments & Parts of a Flower Activities Lessons for

The Power Flower outlines the identities that often result in a comparative advantage in life, or, to call it like it is: privilege. Being heterosexual, well educated, white, male, with no disability will result in privilege pretty much everywhere in the world.


Privilege Power Flower Activity Flowers Power Photos

The Power Flower activity helps students recognize their intersectional identities and their proximity to social identities that hold power and privilege. Publication Date. 2021. Publisher. The Forum on Education Abroad. Recommended Citation.


Privilege Power Flower Activity Flowers Power Photos

Power Flower Exercise* (30 mins) Distribute the power ower handout and colored magic markers. Ask the participants to complete it independently. Assure. * is activity was created by Enid Lee and developed by members of the Doris Marshall Institute in Toronto, it was further expanded by the Youth Environmental Network.