Dilemma Postcards
‘‘Dilemma Postcards’’ are communicative tools that will allow practitioners to easily express, share, and resolve the dilemmas they face in their everyday practice through stories. According to the A.E.I.O.yoU model, this activity seeks to describe and create awareness of ethical dilemmas and tensions faced by practitioners (Individual, yoU), as they perceive others (O) and during interactions (I) among the practitioners, at the practitioner level.
“I want to share my story around some ethical dilemmas I faced in my workplace.”
10-15 minutes
Dilemma Postcards, Ethical Dilemmas/Tension Cards, Pens, Envelopes
Dilemma Postcards to post and share your stories with your fellow practitioners and researchers.
A Dilemma Postcard
Dilemma Postcards to Print (A4 Size paper)
Dilemma Postcards to Print (A4 Size paper)
Ethical Dilemma/ Tension Cards (from another Toolkit)
STEPS
Recollect a situation in your everyday practice where you might have faced, might face, and/or facing these dilemmas or tensions.
Familiarize yourself with Ethical Dilemmas/Tensions cards (on the other sheet/board). (or) Create your own.
Write to share your story. Think about who you want to share this with- CEO, teammate, manager, novice practitioners, etc. You can write it anonymously per choice.
Post the card to “Whomsoever concerned”. You can also make this a team practice to position a Dilemma Post-Box and refer to what is happening in your teams to build ethical products.
Explore further by…
You can explore Dilemma Postcards further by engaging with variations of this toolkit.
V1 - Version 1
Is that ethical dilemma ringing in your head and you want to let it out?
You wanted to communicate or write about a situation in your everyday work that created an ethical dilemma for you. You can create a “Ethical Dilemma Post Box” and drop in it.
V2 - Version 2
Does your team want to communicate to each other about some tough conversations?
In your team, as a part of a brown bag session, you can write about situations that you interacted with each other that created an ethical dilemma in you or in the team. You can always write anonymous postcards.
V3 - Version 3
Are you looking for some team-based changes towards ethical decision making?
Similarly you can do the same exercise in your team. You can do the exercise in a group with different team members bringing a new method and trying to evaluate, compare, and contrast best supports moving forwards for each other for ethical decision making.
