The Bias in the Room

About the Workshop

While the Pilates industry is becoming more aware of the body discrimination it has encouraged and upheld, we are still in a space of not honoring all bodies and trying to hide the biases that keep us from seeing our people. In this session, we will discuss where our own biases may originate from, how our clients see themselves and their bodies based on their own experiences and how this could be creating a seemingly quiet conflict that is screaming loud and clear that we still have a long way to go with welcoming all bodies and appreciating them as they are.

Workshop Goals:

• Define unconscious bias and how it may show up in our teaching and business practices.
• Uncover the origin of our biases and identify how this may mirror our students’ experiences and how they show up to class.
• To review best practices for addressing personal biases and how to create a sacred space for our students, employees and ourselves. 
• To create ideas and methods for continual work for dismantling biases in the broader Pilates community.

What You’ll Use:

• This is a lecture demo and you can follow along with the instructor. If you have access to the required equipment feel free to follow along.