Community Education & Workshops

Throughout history, individuals have used and abused power to drive changes that reflect their personal values. In this seminar, participants will examine their own values and discover how, making value-based decisions, they can drive positive change in their personal and professional lives. 

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In this interactive session, participants will assess perceptions and experiences in the workplace, agree to a working definition of respect, identify individiual and shared value, share personal reflections on respectful and disrespectful behavior, and explore strategies to address disrespectful behavior.  

This experiential session lays the foundation for understanding the different and evolving dimensions of diversity, the basic tenets of diversity, systems of inclusion, and strategies to build a more inclusive environment.

This interactive session helps participants to identify, articulate, and manage their feelings and behaviors when encountering difference (people, personalities, or circumstances). Participannts will learn strategies to maintain and control their emotions while calmly addressing the needs of others. 

Designed to be facilitated within units and/or departments, this session explores cultural considerations for building trust between team members and team leaders, engages participants in group level assessment for finding common ground, and provides opportunities for applying the lessons learned through role play and small group discussion.  

As a continuation of Oops...Did I Do That? Exploring Implicit Bias, this session helps participants identify different types of cognitive biases, audit their personal environments to identify areas for potential bias, clear the smoke of stereotypes, simulate an applicant selection process, and discuss strategies for mindfulness. 

Thought of as the foundation for building skills for participating in courageous conversations, this workshop offers strategies for facilitating difficult conversations around “hot button” issues. Participants enhance their understanding of respectful communication and learn to avoid engaging in destructive speech and behaviors.

Designed to build upon the Informed Discussions module, this interactive workshop assists participants in uncovering unconscious biases and developing strategies for moving beyond them.

This session is the culmination of the courageous conversations set, providing participants with lessons for viewing intercultural challenges holistically and developing effective strategies for resolving intercultural challenges.

As a mini-think tank, this workshop answers the following questions: 1) What are the opportunities and benefits of an inclusive environment? 2) What are our barriers to creating an inclusive culture? 3) What is my role in helping the University of Cincinnati to create an inclusive campus culture?Replace this text component with your accordion's content.

Participants develop an understanding of differences and similarities across generations by reviewing core values and motivators that enhance communication, reduce conflict and strengthen work teams.Replace this text component with your accordion's content.

 This session helps attendees recognize the ways in which implicit biases manifest and shape their lives, creating false narratives, microinequities, and microaggressive behaviors. Participants begin to  identify strategies for increasing consciousness to reduce exclusive practices

Psychological Safety was coined by Dr. Amy Edmondson in 1999. It is a shared belief held by members of a team that it’s OK to take risks, to express their ideas and concerns, to speak up with questions, and to admit mistakes — all without fear of negative consequences. In this workshop, participants will learn the importance of Psychological Safety and how to foster it in the workplace. 

By reviewing characteristics of various thinking styles, participants learn to identify their preferred style and design strategies that leverage each style, enhance communication and strengthen work teams. Also, participants will explore unhelpful thinking styles and methods to address them.

Designed to engage managers and directors in conversations around issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, participants in this workshop will increase their understanding of the dimensions of diversity; review the signature traits of inclusive leaders; explore external factors that impact employees and organizations; relate institutional business stratgies to inclusionary practices; and understand the positive effects an inclusive environment has on the institution.

Using Group Level Assessment (GLA; Vaughn & Lohmueller, 1998), participants in this session will work collaboratively to generate knowledge; advancing their understanding of the cultural difference in perceptions of respectful and disrespectful behavior in the workplace. 

An interactive workshop designed to promote a common understanding of the University of Cincinnati policies, standards, and processes with regard to discrimination, harassment, and sexual misconduct. The 60-minute presentation is a general overview of university policies, procedures, and resources.

An interactive workshop will provide strategies for recognizing discrimination, harassment, and sexual misconduct in the working and learning environment. This workshop will include hypothetical case studies for participants to practice applying the content, while also learning about employee reporting responsibilities and available University resources.

An interactive workshop covering harassment, discrimination, and sexual misconduct reporting obligations, OEO processes, and contextualizing scenarios with policy language and navigating disclosures.

Our brains are funny things and often will make judgments without our awareness or be influenced by external factors in ways that I call “cognitive shortcuts” -- while it is understandable how human kind would have developed these shortcuts over time, there are a variety of ways in which these shortcuts today can get in the way of getting accurate information about the world around us. In particular, they can get in the way of reasoning through complicated moral or societal problems. They make it especially difficult to be good allies. This workshop introduces participants to a variety of well-research cognitive shortcuts. Participants will learn exactly how these shortcuts can get in the way of being a good ally. They will also be given tools and strategies to mitigate the effects of these shortcuts in order to be more effective allies. This is a 60-90 minute workshop.

One common barrier allies face that make it difficult to be a good ally is they lack the vocabulary (and thus the courage) to speak up. One of the more common instances of this is when they witness certain types of bullying behavior that involves teasing or joke. This workshop will walk participants through a “draw the line” activity that will give them the resources to resolve what I call “draw the line challenges”. We will focus on the ethics of jokes and comedy (generally), but the practical upshot will be that participants will walk away with strategies, vocabulary, and resources to speak up and be better allies in the face of harmful teasing. Another practical upshot is that leaders face a variety of “draw the line challenges” in their daily work life, and so this workshop will give participants some tools that will have application beyond responding to harmful teasing. This is a 60-90 minute workshop.

Moral skills are a vital tool for allies. The skills include:

• Moral Awareness – the capacity to identify ethical/moral issues
• Moral Reasoning – the capacity to identify all of the different opinions (and reasons for those opinions) that people might have on a moral issue. This includes awareness of different values/perspectives/opinions that might be relevant.
• Moral Decision Making – the capacity to thoughtfully and systematically weigh competing moral reasons, values, and perspectives to make well-reasoned moral decisions. 
• Moral Dialogue – the capacity to engage in civil, thoughtful dialogue around moral/ethical issues – particularly with people who might have a differing opinion and value framework.

This workshop will set allies on the path to develop these skills to their full potential via a series of interactive activities and case study discussions. 

Participants who have gone through the Introductory Workshop can work with us to create customized advanced conversations workshops via a series of monthly or quarterly “lunch and learns” in which we discuss case studies in a structured way that grapple with ethical issues that are germane to the group’s area of interest.