What's The Difference?

What You Will Learn: How we are genetically programmed to deal with danger situations through the “fight, flight or freeze” response How marginalization in the workplace and minimization of differences cause people to often respond through the same survival mechanism Sara shares her personal experience of minimization and marginalization in the workplace when she was a young woman on a team of otherwise older men How another way people respond is through the “fight” response by pushing back against minimization and loudly calling out the things that make them different How there is often an undiscussed fourth response, “fawn”, where people seek the approval of those who are minimizing them How all four of the responses (fight, flight, freeze and fawn) are natural reactions for someone who is marginalized in an environment of minimization Why feeling marginalized, overlooked, excluded and having your differences minimized makes it that much harder to contribute or to do your best work Why too often, the respo