Ideas for Working with Marginalized People


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Ideas for Strategies

1. Abdu'l-Bahá's counsels about teaching with wisdom.
2. Learning not to bully and not to be bullied.
3. Learning not to be distracted by alarming ideas and behavior.
4. Providing comfort and reassurance to people who feel threatened.
5. Learning to walk with people wherever they are.
6. Mentoring training.
7. Inconspicuous visibility.
8. Humor and clowning.
9. Encouragement training.
12. Appealing to people's own values and best interests.
13. Working with institutions.
14. Consideration of boundaries.
15. Coming out.
16. Showing counter-examples to stereotypes.
17. Finding healthy ways for people to occupy themselves.
18. Cultural competence training.
19. Finding other ways of doing things.
20. Ignoring barriers.
21. Embracing paradoxes.
22. Zero self-tolerance for antipathy.

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Created October 2003.
Last updated October 2003.

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