Breaking barriers: Using poetry as a tool to enhance diversity understanding with youth and adults

Abstract

Diversity is a word that invokes a broad spectrum of reactions often focused primarily on race. Just saying the word sometimes puts people on the defensive. The use of poetry, when implemented effectively, can enable individuals to communicate in non-threatening ways and open themselves up to other views of seeing the world. Presented in this article is an example of the use of poetry drawn from a particular training workshop representative of many classroom and training experiences conducted by the authors. The utilization of poetry is designed to enhance the ability of participants to embrace both the differences and similarities that everyone brings to the human encounter.

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