Cross-Generational Commonalities and Differences 

Goals 

• Build empathy and perspective-taking

• Build trust and connection

• Provide opportunities to examine how ageism may impact outside- and self-perception about leadership abilities

Perspective-taking and empathy

(ADD TEXT - Include something about how age is not the only factor that creates differences in our perspectives, but can be impacted by other experiences and our race/ethnicity, where we live, our gender and our economic status, etc. )

Activity

We are going to explore what you learned from your cross-generational conversations about commonalities and differences between generations (20 min)

• Think about:  

  • What did you learn from your cross-generational conversations homework?

    • From an older person's perspective, what did you learn? From a younger person’s perspective, what did you learn?

    • Think about an issue that is important to you. How might another generation experience, think about, feel, and approach this issue? How would you represent their perspective?

  • How can we help others’ understand the perspective of different generations? 

  • How did it feel putting yourself into another perspective? 

Game

Find a person who is a different age (generation) than you to play this Jeopardy game and learn more about your commonalities and differences.