Vanderbilt University uses the ‘Feelings Wheel’ as a resource in its 10-day diversity training program. Robin DiAngelo’s ‘White Fragility’ is also part of the program.
Vanderbilt University is asking its diversity training participants to journal their emotions using a “Feelings Wheel” as a reference.
The exercise occurs on Day 1 of Vanderbilt’s 10-day training program.
Users are told, “Start with one of the seven core emotions and then work your way out to dig deeper into its derivatives. Or identify a higher-level feeling and track it back to the core emotion.”
The seven core emotions are “happy,” “sad,” “disgusted,” “angry,” “surprised,” “bad,” and “fearful.” Those then branch out to two additional rims for a total of 130 feelings, which include “awful,” “cheeky,” and “confused.”
Vanderbilt also provides a PDF titled “Mentoring with Culture in Mind,” which contains an excerpt from Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility.”
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