Welcome to Positive Diversity!

Our Mission:  Help student educators and advocates build inclusion, lead students to discover the positive in others, and prepare students with interpersonal skills needed to succeed in and after college.

Exploring Teamwork Essentials© is a 3-hour student training program. Students read and discuss a 25-page educational work booklet that connects diversity, teamwork, and career success. Students understand how team performance is tightly linked to respecting and valuing the different personal styles, capabilities, and preferences of others. Differences in communication, value, and behavioral norms across ethnicity, gender, generation, and work styles are illuminated. They then complete the My View film and skill-building session. $6.95 per student  

 

My View© is a 90-minute student experience that bonds students, infusing messages of diversity appreciation, our common humanity, and compassion. A short introduction booklet conveys the importance of developing interpersonal skills for college and workplace success. After watching a documentary film, a student discussion provides the forum for practicing interpersonal skills: listening, suspending judgment, and articulating a viewpoint.  $0.95 per student  

 

Living Together© is a tool for roommates. Using a guide, students surface similarities, practice the art of accommodation, and receive the suggestion that "conflict" is not inherently bad or to be avoided.

NO CHARGE

 
  

 

Positive Diversity's programming is grounded in the belief that the best way to develop inclusive behavior, student readiness to work in teams, a sense of community, and collaborative classroom environments is for students to purposefully connect with each other. By understanding their common humanity, life goals, and values, they begin the process of becoming open to each other, a critical step toward interacting effectively or living respectfully together.

 
Overwhelming evidence indicates today's young adults need to develop the applied skills of teamwork and multicultural compentency to suceed in the 21st century. Colleges and progressive high schools are responding with more student group projects and collaborative classrooms. Employers expect employees to develop effective communication and relationship-building skills across diverse populations. Leveraging 15 years experience leading project teams and diversity initiatives at Fortune 500 companies, we are proud to bring you these engaging student experiences that simultaneously address the needs of students, student educators, and employers..
 
BEWARE! Students often have a hard time stopping the discussion segments. Many want more!

We are amazed by student response and invite you to explore their reactions found in the Youtube video and Testimonials. Studies show the development of friendships assists with retention. Experience shows that an exploration of our commonalities and diversity's potential builds inclusion. We catalyze both and in doing so provide a critical early piece in the puzzle for improving student skills development and institutional retention. With our foundation in place, your existing programming may become more successful too!

 

If your roles or goals include the following, our student programs will support you: 

High school: Student organizations, student council / government, leadership development, IB program, diversity club, team-based learning, 21st century skills, and more.

College: Student Organizations, freshman orientation, R.A. programs, Student Affairs, diversity and multicultural programs, student project teams, college student retention, leadership development programs, Making Excellence Inclusive, college roommate exercise, First Year Experience, College 101, University 101, first year seminar, learning communities, inclusion, international student programs and more.

"This program provided a great and measurable framework for students to learn how to be proactive in understanding one another.”
                                                                                                      Jon Hansford, Director of First Year Experience
                                                                                                                                       Campbellsville University