Equity | - The Board / Subcommittees reduce barriers to enable the participation of members in Board / Subcommittee activities while fulfilling their mandate to serve the public more broadly.
- The Board / Subcommittees ensure underrepresented member groups have an equitable opportunity to participate in events organized by the group (e.g., profession, linguistic, geographic membership, Black, Indigenous, People of Color and other underrepresented and historically marginalized voices, individuals, and communities).
| - CBS membership consists of students and individuals of different professional backgrounds.
| - To design the Society’s activities to make it possible for students and professions represented in membership to participate.
- Board / Subcommittees to encourage discussions on equity and to encourage invited speakers of conferences or other events to engage in an equity lens.
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Pluralism and Solidarity | - The Board / Subcommittees include multiple perspectives (relates to Inclusion) across various diversity factors, including but not limited to professions, geographic location, racialized groups,
sex / gender diversity, and disability - The Board / Subcommittees state and demonstrate that everyone belongs, regardless of their viewpoint (Solidarity).
| - Where data exists, the Board / Subcommittee should use data to guide decision-making to reflect the participation of relevant/impacted members and non-members.
| - The Society will demonstrate inclusiveness of Canadian official languages, Individuals in racialized groups, gender, geographic location, professional background among other diversity factors.
- The Society’s activities, including the conferences, will provide an opportunity for Canadian society to be exposed to bioethics from multiple perspectives. i.e., topics that address a range of issues across bioethics.
- The Society will consider geographic diversity in terms of supporting organizations that will host activities
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Humility | - We recognize that people might want to position themselves as learners when engaging with others and understanding other individuals’ experiences.
| - There would be expectations that the group’s events will have different dimensions of diversity such as race, gender, ethnicity, age, education, etc., embedded in the activities of the group.
| - We can enact this value in the Society’s events by:
- Encouraging invited speakers to recognize their own situatedness and the limits on their own perspectives.
- Encouraging participants to reflect on their own situatedness (positionality) as they listen/participate in the group’s activities.
- Featuring topics to address systemic oppression and racism.
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Cultural and psychological safety | - The Board / Subcommittees should create a safe space where there is lack of fear, while feeling open to discomfort or taking on difficult topics in education related events.
- The Society’s events provide outcomes based on respectful engagement that result in an environment free of racism and discrimination, where speakers and participants feel safe to participate.
| - Attendees of the Society’s events will hold multiple perspectives on topics presented.
| Use the tools we have to promote as safe a space as possible in conferences and other activities e.g., Moderators’ facilitation skills. - Mitigate against ‘zoom bombing’ by having:
- Zoom functionality that can allow for control of moderators/organizers.
- Zoom setup that can allow moderators to make decisions about which question/viewpoints are expressed.
Using these functions intentionally can create safer spaces for discussion and may allow moderators to ensure that broad perspectives (in the form of comments/questions from participants) can be brought to the Society’s activities. |
Respect | - The Board / Subcommittees ensure that different viewpoints are meaningfully heard and engaged; that is, time is allowed to discuss diverse perspectives.
| | - Respecting a diversity of viewpoints may require that Board / Subcommittees select speakers of differing viewpoints or that ensure that comments at the events allow space for conversation to explore others’ ideas.
- Organizers to select topics relevant to groups/populations.
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Honesty, intellectual rigor and quality | - The Board / Subcommittees engage questions carefully and thoughtfully in their decision-making process.
| | Ensure that diversity and equity knowledge experts, speakers, and authors are featured in the Society’s events. - The BOD / Subcommittees allow for in-depth and healthy arguments where needed to arrive at decisions.
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Generosity and alignment with positive intent | - The Board / Subcommittees do not take things personally and give people the benefit of the doubt in their shared views.
| | - Board / Subcommittees strive to create a safe environment, free of fear and judgment.
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