Welcome to The Learning Lab.
Online content for self-guided learning.
Key Ideas Series
Introducing the essential concepts that unlock an understanding of identity and culture. Through guided summaries of key academic papers, you will gain foundational perspectives that will reveal ways in which identities function and can be put to work to either cause or counter division and cohesion.
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Key Techniques Series
Introducing practical skills that you can use to create positive change. Through instructional mini-modules, understand how to gather identity-related information and build effective strategies to counter division and promote cohesion.
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Special Content
Taking the most relevant findings and resources from disciplines such as anthropology, neuroscience, psychology, performance, media studies and other subjects, we expose a world of knowledge relevant to your work.
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THE OICD SLACK WORKSPACE
Collaborate and interact with colleagues, experts and a community of learners (you will find your invite link to Slack in the email you received when you joined the institute - for assistance email [email protected]).
Professional Training and Consultancy
Unsure how to implement identity-based methods and get results in your context? We help organizations and agencies to integrate identity-based solutions. View our current projects or look at our EMIC™ training and consultancy services.
Counter Divisions
Intelligent research methods and strategies that help counter hatred, discrimination, prejudice & violence through leveraging identity and culture dynamics.
Promote Cohesion & Growth
Evidence-based approaches to assist individuals in expanding options to self-identify and therefore to act to positively craft their lives and actions.
Forge Positive Change
The tools to help produce self-sustaining & ethical change that can unlock psychological, social and economic capacity and human potential.