Responding To Triggers

This article, also available on the Learn@UW course page, offers questions at the bottom of the article. We may not get a chance to discuss these questions in class, so you may use this space to share things you may want to discuss.

Here are the questions they pose in that article:
• Which responses are most typical for you when you are triggered? As a targeted group member? As an advantaged group member?
• Are there differences in how you respond to triggers depending on the ism?
• Which responses would you like to add to your repertoire?
• Which responses do you use now and would like to stop using or use more
selectively?
• What blocks you from responding to triggers in ways that feel more effective?
• What can you do to expand your response repertoire?

Of course, some of these questions may be more for self-reflection, but sometimes people just want to be able to put out what's on their minds, and see what developments might come from it!

Discuss!