exercise · all tools
Social Identity
Surfaces the implicit assumptions driving your actions and responses, and how they assemble into a social identity — age, life context, the groups you belong to and the ones you are read as belonging to. Placed early in the guide so that a young leader sees their own starting position before organising anyone else.
- Naming the groups one is read as belonging to can surface experiences of exclusion; the guide gives the facilitator no handling for that
Practical
- Time
- 20-25 min
- Group
- 1–∞ · individual
- Settings
- self-guided, in-person
- Materials
- Worksheet in the guide; pen and paper
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, narrative-identity
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Step_Up_A_Pocket_Guide_… — Step Up! A Pocket Guide to Social Change for Young Leaders, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Beth Fisher Yoshida — TransNational Leadership Development; the exercise adapted from Social Identity Mapping, Centre for Creative Leadership, in UNFPA's Step Up! pocket guide (2021)
In this directory via Step Up! A Pocket Guide to Social Change for Young Leaders
status: checked · added 2026-08-29