The Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging offers workshops for staff, faculty, and students at all stages on a wide range of topics relating to diversity, inclusion, and belonging. In addition to the pre-planned workshops, we welcome requests to design and deliver custom seminars for specific audiences.

Submitting a Request

You can request tailored workshops for your department, program, or organization. We can customize the message and the conversation’s activities to your group’s particular needs.

Please complete the form at right to request a custom workshop (Note: all tailored workshops require an 8-participant minimum and an advanced notice of 2 weeks). If you have any questions about our topics, please contact Alice Swan.

Except for the DIB 101 Learning Series, the below-listed workshops are learning opportunities for deeper self-reflection and propose ways to engage in DIB work that help you become a part of the solution.

 

Workshop Menu

Dialogue Over Division

Frameworks: HEAR Model (By Julia Minson)

Themes: Social-emotional learning, active listening, community building

Dialogue Over Division: Embracing Disagreements in Community Workshop aims to bring people together to learn how to navigate differing viewpoints respectfully and constructively. Drawing on expert insights on receptive dialogue, we will engage in guided discussions and interactive activities to help embrace disagreements and strengthen community bonds.

Brave Conversation Across Difference

Framework(s): Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (By Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen), Dare to Lead (By Brené Brown)

Themes: social-emotional intelligence, shame resilience and risk-taking, and partnership-building

This workshop aims to explore how dimensions of difference and power inform how we hold difficult conversations. Together, participants explore how to prepare and engage in brave conversation rooted in socio-emotional intelligence, shame resilience, and partnership building.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Movement or Moment?

Framework(s): Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (By Isabel Wilkerson), “I Am Not Your Negro” (James Baldwin, referenced by Raoul Peck)

Themes: resistance, reflection, subversive action, sacrifice, practicing empathy, and bravery

This workshop helps deepen critical consciousness regarding the forces that shape the caste system in the United States. Participants unpack the ways these forces shape our environment and experiences. Moreover, they engage in ongoing self-reflection on antiracist practices that promote movements.

Assimilation: Is it a necessary evil?

Framework(s): Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (By Isabel Wilkerson)

Themes: assimilation, placement and positionality, resistance, rejection, subversive action

This workshop aims to help participants understand the power dynamics of assimilation and how they operate in conjunction with the caste system in the United States. Participants examine the nuances of the caste system and oppression to better understand how to take steps toward subversive action.

Identity + Bias

Framework(s): Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People (By Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji)

Themes: Identity, bias, and social dynamics

This workshop allows participants to interrogate the ways our social identities shape our social consciousness, demonstrating how privilege can contribute to advantage blindness. Moreover, it will present the ways that institutions routinely reinforce systems of privilege and oppression.

EDIB 101 Learning Series (3 Sessions)

Framework(s): White Fragility (By Robin Diangelo)

Themes: white rage, white superiority, income inequality, social dominance, prejudice and power, systemic racism, discrimination, oppression, liberation, social action

This workshop series allows participants to deepen their own awareness of the foundations of privilege and oppression in the United States. These workshops will help participants reconceptualize systemic racism and their own proximity to upholding it.