The Mirror of Awareness

Part of the Personal Anchor series – moments that root identity and meaning.

I took a workplace training called Understanding and Overcoming Unconscious Bias.

At first, I thought it would simply confirm what I already knew, that bias exists around us, in systems and behaviours we can see.

But the most powerful lesson wasn’t external.

It was the realisation that bias can quietly take root inside us too, in who we expect to lead, who we assume understands, whose access feels “normal,” and whose feels like an “adjustment.”

It wasn’t about blame.

It was about noticing, pausing, and choosing differently.

That session didn’t close the conversation for me; it opened one.

A mirror I still carry today:

Inclusion isn’t only about what we demand from the world.

Sometimes, it begins in the quiet spaces inside ourselves.

When did you first become aware of your own unconscious bias?