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Curiosity without extraction Ask about the process. Do not make a colleague a field trip.
What you’ll be able to do Identify the practical implication of “Curiosity without extraction” and apply it to one live DHS decision connected to Acceptance in DHS Work. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: How should the team use the concept? Document a next step for Curiosity without extraction: Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed. “What does this step assume?” is Acceptance. “You’re our expert because of who you are” is theater. Culture without theater is a later course. The habit starts here.
How noticing asks Curiosity about difference can turn into extraction: one Somali staff person asked to “explain the community,” one disabled staff person asked to fix access, one Native staff person treated as consultation. That is not Acceptance. That is using a person as a module.
Acceptance asks the process : What does this form assume. Who can complete it at 7 p.m. Who cannot travel. What language is the default. Lived experience may be offered. It is not extracted in the hallway.
Ask this / not that Ask the process Who was this built for. Who waits. Who drops. What would a second channel be.
Do not ask a person to be a people Do not look at one colleague and say “can you speak for.” If a Nation is affected, that is consultation — a government door.
Hear without converting You can write down an impact sentence without agreeing with every remedy. That is still noticing.
Put this lesson to work What you can change You control whether curiosity without extraction changes a live DHS process connected to Acceptance in DHS Work or remains information on a page.
What to watch for The team completes the learning, keeps the same default, assigns no owner, and never checks who carries the burden.
Your next step Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
Carry this forward Ask about the process. Do not make a colleague a field trip.
You control whether curiosity without extraction changes a live DHS process connected to Acceptance in DHS Work or remains information on a page.
Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
Completion is shown by a scenario decision, a knowledge-check response and a saved one-minute commitment.
Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
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Return to the experience: What did you notice or try, whose perspective informed it, and what would you keep or adjust?
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