Date Time
Mon 06/04/2018 08:45am - 04:30pm

The 1-day Building Inclusive Communities (BIC) Workshop is designed to provide a framework for participants to take personal responsibility for creating a truly engaged diverse and inclusive campus environment and to stay current with the diversity, equity and inclusion needs and issues of a changing population base and VCU community.This comprehensive evidence-based workshop teaches about group and organizational dynamics and helps individual participants change their own behaviors and improve organizational outcomes. Using experiential learning through personal sharing and discussion, the program addresses specific VCU-related examples.The key workshop components are: Creating a safe, non-blaming learning environment; shared assumptions and definitions; tools for cooperative communication, problem-solving and trust building; understanding the impact of historically included (or privileged) and excluded (or discounted) group memberships and identities on the function and success of teams and relationships; and developing participants` skills to address modern ism`s.Together we can develop a culturally informed VCU community that empowers each of us to strengthen communication and effectively address the needs of diverse groups.

Prerequisites: BIC facilitators invite personal sharing from participants in order to enhance learning from each other, and workshop discussions are confidential. Participants are asked to do some assigned reading in advance and to discuss personal examples of work situations. Pre-workshop readings will be provided via email. The 1-day diversity workshop utilizes many of the same experiential activities as the 2-day workshop but some material is not covered, and there is less time for discussion, personal sharing and reflection.
Cost:
$0.00
Sponsor:
Inclusive Excellence
Audience:
VCU Faculty and Staff Only
Category:
Diversity
Contact:
Altman, Janice H
804-828-8947
jhaltman@vcu.edu