Hello everyone, I’d like to share this opportunity to participate in The Art of Inclusive Communication Webinar hosted by the American Homebrewers Association (AHA).
LIVE: Thursday, September 29 · 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm MT (also available for replay through the end of 2022).
This webinar, presented by National Conflict Resolution Center, will help you explore your own personal and cultural identities and learn how they relate to communication styles; how these different styles can sometimes be the root of communication breakdown; and, most importantly, how you can learn to recognize when a communication breakdown is happening, so that you can do something about it.
This is a unique and incredible opportunity. I’ve personally been through the training and have used the approach and learnings ever since. A key learning objective is helping find common ground with fellow homebrewers and gain valuable insights to welcome new homebrewers to the hobby.
Implying there’s an “Inclusive” issue is wrong.
Vast majority of members with a sound mind doesn’t know,
or care, what walk of life that brewer comes from.
Regardless of a brewers values, norms, or beliefs,
lets not target any “perceived group”, that needs “fixing”.
The inclusive common thread is a hobby to brew great beer,
lets not loose sight of that. United we stand, divided we fall.
I’m formally trained in diversity, equal opportunity, equal employment
opportunity, and sexual assault.
I don’t understand why everything has to have these ridiculous political undertones. The FACTS are this hobby and anything related to beer is white male dominated. Do you want our hobby to grow? Have more people talk about beer and brewing from all walks of life? Well that takes a little bit of work, like growing a business. How do we relate/connect to others that are not white males? Stop the nonsense. Expanding the homebrew hobby and craft beer enjoyment is good for all parties. No one is attacking you or me. How can you and I lend a hand and talk beer nerd stuff with other people that aren’t white and have a beard and a second fridge full of beer. Isn’t the idea to grow and share the hobby?
more productively, and i guess based on my personal experience. i can definitely confirm “craft beer” has been growing greatly just over the past 10 or maybe as little as 5 years in korea/china. there is a potential language barrier of course, but the consumers/producers of craft beer and a likely growing homebrew community are wealthier/better educated and are more likely to speak english than the average citizen there.
i mean i guess this is the AHA, with emphasis on the first A, but i feel like the most obvious communities to reach out to in America, and the ones most forgotten/ignored are latin/central american origin and asian.
i dont think either of them need special (and dainty!) communication methods to reach, theyre right there for you to make contact with. i promise they wont cry.
If part of the AHA mission is to expand the hobby it makes perfect sense to reach out to underrepresented groups and the type of training that happened makes sense to do to facilitate that for the paid staff and governing committee. It doesn’t really make so much sense to offer it to all members as the ones most likely to benefit from voluntarily participating are probably going to be the ones most resistant.
I think active outreach, which I think Fred was suggesting, is the most effective.
One thing I have noticed is that over the years participation by women has seemed (I can’t know for sure) to dwindle to nothing on this forum. I don’t at all think this is a hostile environment for women but I do wonder if there i# something about the discussions here that are unappealing to women in tone. Don’t know,
Participation by women on the forum may have dwindled, but OTOH in my club (my most direct measurement), it’s grown. I’d guess 40% of our club is women.
I agree with Denny’s observation. My club’s president is a woman. And a BJCP judge and terrific brewer, ciderer, and mead maker. I would hope that she hasn’t felt limitations, but I will have to ask her.