DEI in the Workplace

(Audience: Students)

This workshop approaches diversity, equity, and inclusion as it relates to the workplace. Students will learn more about how implicit biases in the workplace create embedded stereotypes, shape how we behave or respond in a given situation, and affect decisions and behaviors without our conscious knowledge. Students will also gain knowledge and skills needed to improve their ability to effectively interact with different cultural groups through cultural humility and creating a foundation of trust. Finally, participants will develop strategies and action plans for creating equity and conscious inclusion in their future careers.

Media Literacy

(Audience: Students)

The media literacy workshop is an interactive experience that focuses on analyzing media content to increase knowledge on how media ownership or regulation may affect the type of media we consume or share. The workshop will help participants become better media consumers, better media producers, and better global citizens by learning how to think about various media and the messages that are presented.

Rethink Simulation

(Audience: Students)

The ReThink Poverty Simulation is an immersive experience to educate students on poverty, to increase empathy, and to learn more about campus and community resources.

Trauma Informed Practices

(Audience: Any)

This workshop will draw on the CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) and SAMHSA’s National Center for Trauma-Informed Care’s (NCTIC) Six Guiding Principles To A Trauma-Informed Approach. These principles include safety; trustworthiness and transparency; peer support; collaboration and mutuality; empowerment and choice; and cultural, historical, and gender issues. We will address how these principles can be embedded within an organizational structure that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma (including community disasters, violence, abuse, grief, and crises) and develop an action plan for implementing trauma-informed practices.

Inclusive Advising

(Audience: College Educators)

In this workshop, participants will learn about the ways that diversity, equity, and inclusion are a part of the advising process and apply the appreciative model (and developmental model) of advising in their work to create an inclusive campus environment.

Safe Zone Training

(Audience: K-12 and College Educators)

Safe Zone is an in-depth, interactive workshop designed to educate faculty and staff about the LGBTQ community and develop participants' capacity for building an inclusive campus for all students. Anti-LGBTQ bias and prejudice affects all members of a community, and we all have the opportunity and responsibility to work against it. Participants will learn terminology related to LGBTQ identities, discuss the experiences of LGBTQ students, develop skills for building LGBTQ inclusive environments, and leave with a plan of action for moving forward. Participants may choose to become members of the Safe Zone network following the workshop.

Supporting First-Generation Students

(Audience: High School and College Educators)

In this workshop, participants will learn about the specific barriers for first-generation students, examine the research and practices that improve first-generation student success, and identify relevant supports and campus resources for first-generation students.

Supporting Life Long Learners 

(Audience: College Educators)

In this workshop, participants will learn about the specific barriers for students returning to college after years out of the classroom. Participants will examine the research and best practices to help support lifelong learners in the pursuit of their college degree.  

Best Practices for Teaching International Students

(Audience: Middle School, High School, and College Educators)

This workshop focuses on the intercultural factors that influence the experiences of international students. We will explore effective communication strategies between and among instructors and students and the academic and pedagogical challenges, opportunities, and promising practices for teaching international students. We will provide practical approaches for addressing issues of language, curricula, teaching methods, assignment design, assessments, academic integrity, classroom management, classroom participation, and help-seeking.

Creating Welcoming School Environments

(Audience: K-12 Educators, Social Service Providers)         

Students enter our classrooms with different backgrounds and a variety of experiences. Teachers not only work with students, but also have reciprocal interactions between families and schools. How do we create welcoming school environments for LGBTQ students and parents? How does our own perception of gender and sexual identity affect our interactions with students and families? We will also address how to create school and classroom practices and processes that support the growing diversity of our student body.  

Preparing High School Students for College

(Audience: Middle School and High School Educators)

This workshop focuses on ways to prepare students to transition into higher education. We will address how to prepare students academically and socially to engage in discussion based classes at the collegiate level. We will also address some of the developmental changes that students experience and how to prepare and support them for this next stage of their life.  

A Framework for Inclusive Practices 

This workshop will focus on differentiating between cultural competency and cultural humility; recognizing the difference between implicit and explicit bias; connecting the micro processes to macro structures; and identifying how biases impact interactions and the mission of an organization. Participants will learn how to build a culture of trust rather than a culture of fear and how psychological safety is central to inclusion and belonging. The workshop will also address how inequities and exclusionary practices are maintained and discuss how to use inclusion reviews as a step towards more equitable, inclusive, and just practices.   

Media Literacy

(Audience: Any)

The media literacy workshop is an interactive experience that focuses on analyzing media content to increase knowledge on how media ownership or regulation may affect the type of media we consume or share. The workshop will help participants become better media consumers, better media producers, and better global citizens by learning how to think about various media and the messages that are presented.

DEI in the Workplace

(Audience: Any)

This workshop approaches diversity, equity, and inclusion as it relates to the workplace. Participants will learn more about how implicit biases in the workplace create embedded stereotypes, shape how we behave or respond in a given situation, and affect decisions and behaviors without our conscious knowledge. Participants will also gain knowledge and skills needed to improve their ability to effectively interact with different cultural groups through cultural humility and creating a foundation of trust. Finally, participants will develop strategies and action plans for creating equity and conscious inclusion in their current/future careers.

Trauma Informed Practices

(Audience: Any)

This workshop will draw on the CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR) and SAMHSA’s National Center for Trauma-Informed Care’s (NCTIC) Six Guiding Principles To A Trauma-Informed Approach. These principles include safety; trustworthiness and transparency; peer support; collaboration and mutuality; empowerment and choice; and cultural, historical, and gender issues. We will address how these principles can be embedded within an organizational structure that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma (including community disasters, violence, abuse, grief, and crises) and develop an action plan for implementing trauma-informed practices.

A Framework for Inclusive Practices 

This workshop will focus on differentiating between cultural competency and cultural humility; recognizing the difference between implicit and explicit bias; connecting the micro processes to macro structures; and identifying how biases impact interactions and the mission of an organization. Participants will learn how to build a culture of trust rather than a culture of fear and how psychological safety is central to inclusion and belonging. The workshop will also address how inequities and exclusionary practices are maintained and discuss how to use inclusion reviews as a step towards more equitable, inclusive, and just practices.