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How would you react to someone making an offensive remark about your country of origin? What would you do when someone disrespects your privacy? What would you say when your boss repeatedly treats your colleague with patronising behaviour? These situations may very well sound familiar to you, either from your professional or your private life. To make sure we treat each other with due respect and dignity, it is important to be open about issues and to create a safe space for a constructive dialogue. Utrecht 木瓜福利影视's Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Office has developed a game that can help with this: the Dilemma Game.
Consisting of a range of real-life dilemmas, this game provides a great opportunity to put yourself in the shoes of others, reflect on different actions and take a stand. The goal of the game is to spark fruitful discussions among participants about issues related to diversity and inclusion, and to help them find solutions together. It is a conversation starter that encourages us to consider, choose and defend (and possibly reconsider) alternative courses of action. The game can also be a good way to exchange opinions or experiences and can act as a step towards finding a common ground on certain principles.
Example from the Dilemma Game
Tom is a colleague of yours. He is a gay person and has not come out to his colleagues yet. During a lunch break Tom and a female professor who works in a different team have a conversation about life and family. She tells your colleague that he needs to marry and have kids in order to blend into the community because 鈥渋t is the way things work here鈥. You overheard the conversation. What do you do?
- Confront the female colleague saying that everyone can decide by themselves how to live their lives.
- Say nothing and ignore the conversation.
- Tell the female colleague that Tom is gay.
- Once the conversation is over, speak to Tom to support him.
Who is the game for?
This game is especially relevant for employees in the (higher) education sector. Some of the dilemmas are also generic so they can easily be used within other sectors. Play the game during a team outing, team building, theme meeting, workshop, lecture or as part of a training course (e.g. recruitment & selection, (un)conscious bias).
About the game
This game is a revised version of the dilemma game themed around diversity and inclusion and developed by the members of the Nanophotonics Section from the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science of Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 in 2019. The new version of the game contains new, fully reviewed dilemmas to reflect more dimensions of diversity and inclusion. For questions, comments or feedback, please contact the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Office of Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 at edi.office@uu.nl.