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Workshops
Level up your impact and turn policy into practice with these skills-focused EDI training offerings. Reach out to Christian Ylagan for inquiries or to book us in for your team.
Current Workshops
Mind the Gap
Mind The Gap is a workshop focused on the skills needed to foster meaningful engagement in interactions where there is a differential (“gap”) in power and identity. Participants will learn three concepts—inoculation, critical empathy, and compassionate accountability—and have opportunities to translate these into interpersonal skills and strategies that can be applied in their individual roles as current or future leaders and clinicians.
Learning Outcomes:
- Social Inoculations
- Develop self-awareness of one’s social identity and position in relation to existing structures of power
- Leverage verbal and physical cues to address anticipated pushback or disconnection in interpersonal engagements
- Critical Empathy
- Deepen one’s understanding of empathy, with an emphasis on both connection and differentiation to bridge diversity in lived experiences;
- Demonstrate curiosity and active listening as critical empathy practices
- Compassionate Accountability
- Differentiate between Expectations, Boundaries, and Compassionate Accountability
- Utilize “Both And” approaches that leverage empathy while holding someone accountable
Keywords: leveraging positionality; inoculation; critical empathy; compassionate accountability; beyond perspective-taking
Email Christian Ylagan for inquiries about this workshop.
Conflict Compass: EDI-Informed Approaches to Navigating Conflict
Dive into this 2-hour workshop designed to help participants understand how their personal identity, lived experiences, and socialization shape how they show up in conflict situations. Drawing from conflict mediation and crucial conversations frameworks, this workshop foregrounds the relationship between identity and conflict management styles to help participants learn about the drivers of conflict: need and value. The workshop will then provide practical approaches grounded in critical empathy, such as active listening and asserting statement skills, to help participants navigate these needs-based and values-oriented conflict in both personal and professional contexts.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to
- reflect on how identity bears down on one’s conflict management style;
- differentiate between needs-based and values-oriented conflict with the goal of adapting one’s approach in context;
- practice critical empathy strategies of active listening and asserting, grounded in an understanding of how identity and impact show up in relation to need or value in conflict situations
Keywords: conflict; needs vs. values; needs vs. solutions; active listening; asserting impact or value; critical empathy
Email Christian Ylagan for inquiries about this workshop.
Rest for Resisters: Finding Wellness Through Balance and Radical Rest
Join us for this workshop where participants will learn about rest as a radical and necessary practice to support wellness and well-being, especially in a time dominated by grind culture, political unrest, and large-scale injustice. Drawing on the premise that there are both systemic and individual factors to stress that are often tied to one’s social roles, identities, and lived experience, this session highlights the important role of balance in healthier models of rest. Participants will also learn how reclaiming rest can serve as an act of resistance and healing to challenge these pervasive systems. Finally, participants will engage in self-reflection, grounding exercises, and boundaries as part of a holistic, everyday approach to well-being that goes beyond conventional notions of self-care tied to inequitable cultures of productivity and consumption.
By the end of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- gain an understanding of rest based on an agency-oriented model of health, wellness, and well-being;
- develop familiarity with the notion of stress and stressors, and the role of balance in rest practice;
- engage in self-reflection about the individual practice of rest, including grounding exercises and boundary-setting;
Keywords: stress; lived experience; social roles; balance; boundaries; grounding; radical rest
Email Christian Ylagan for inquiries about this workshop.
Speak Up, Stand Up: From Microaggressions to Microinterventions
Speak Up, Stand Up is a workshop geared towards providing participants with some fundamental understanding of microaggressions and its various types, as well as the nature of its impact on both individuals and community networks within the university. By providing opportunities for reflecting on one’s power within one’s role as staff or student leader, this workshop will also cultivate interpersonal skills like active listening and asserting as pragmatic ways to address microaggressions from the lens of compassionate accountability.
By the end of this workshop, participants should be able to
- develop knowledge about the nature of microaggressions and its myriad effects;
- develop awareness of one’s power as a student leader to be able to address microaggressions;
- deploy active listening and asserting statement skills to hold accountability while maintaining empathy during times of conflict;
- practice skills with which to prevent and address microaggressions in support of a more inclusive university culture
Keywords: microaggressions; microinterventions; power wheel; conflict; active listening; asserting
Email Christian Ylagan for inquiries about this workshop.