Diversity Workshops

Participants will learn:

• strategies for reviewing your current organizational culture through an honest and critical lens
• how cultural awareness and responsiveness positively affect your work and organization
• recognition of the relationship between implicit bias, microaggressions, and organizational culture
• ways to learn about cultures outside of your own
• strategies to shift organizational culture to become more inclusive

Participants will explore these questions:

• Do we have to talk about race?
• But aren't things better?
• Am I supposed to feel guilty?
• Is it going to be uncomfortable?

Learning Goals:

• The Truth about Bias
• Development of Bias
• Impacts of Bias
• Focus on Cultural Humility
• Self-Reflection and Change

Participants will:

• Define and explore examples of microaggressions to create awareness.
• Reflect on microaggressions we’ve observed/experienced at EWU.
• Begin to identify ways to respond to microaggressions.

Learning Goals:

• What microaggressions are, and how common they are in our everyday communications
• Intent versus impact of microaggressions
• Effects of microaggressions on marginalized communities
• Strategies for becoming more self-aware in relation to microaggressions

Participants will:

• understand generational differences in the workplace
• understand myths about generations
• determine commonalities between generations
• develop strategies to foster mutual mentorship

Participants will:

• understand that inequities do exist, even if it’s uncomfortable to acknowledge.
• understand that identities are complex. One person can have privilege and also be marginalized
• learn that discomfort is okay. Our feelings are valid, and we should accept each other for that.
• brainstorm ACTIONS we can take to combat inequity from a variety of identity standpoints.

Participants will learn:

• Why service is so important for each of our departments
• The difference between bad, good and excellent
  service
• Common myths in the service world
• Three types of service interactions
• How to deal with difficult people
• Keys to Inclusive Service
• Putting it all together at EWU (or your organization)

Participants will learn:

• the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion for organizations
• how cultural awareness positively affects your work
• how implicit bias and microaggressions manifest in your work and everyday life
• the relationship between implicit bias and advocacy outcomes
• to acknowledge our own biases and see each client’s and individual’s worth in order to reduce the effects of implicit bias on your work

Participants will:

• understand the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion for organizations and EWU goals
• gain awareness of identities that make up diversity in the workforce, including protected classes
• discuss structural issues that exist on our campus and nation-wide that hinder equity
• understanding how cultural awareness positively affects your work and creating an inclusive environment promotes equity