Trainings, Workshops and Dialogues

We offer a variety of customized and on-demand trainings, workshops, and dialogues on a variety of social change topics. To schedule this training, contact keith.lanser@uc.edu. Training topics include: 

• Inequality in Cincinnati: An hour-long training that can be offered online or in-person. By the end of the training, participants will:
  • Learn about Cincinnati's history of racial violence and exlusion;
  • Learn about how racial and class segregation impact life outcomes for Cincinnatians;
  • Explore ways to get involved in Cincinnati in order to mitigate the effects of racial and economic inequality. 
• Social Identity Exploration: An hour-long training that can be offered online or in person. By the end of this training, participants will: 
  • Learn about various social identities
  • Explore their own social identities
  • Consider how their social identities impact your ability to create inclusive social change 
• Implicit Bias: An hour-long training that can be offered online or in-person. This training does require participants to complete some pre-work, and participants can expect to spend about a half hour working on the pre-work before the training. By the end of this training, participants will: 
  • Learn about implicit bias
  • Explore their own implicit biases
  • Identify opportunities to work on overcoming your biases, prejudices, and stereotypes
• Creating Social Change: An hour and a half-long training that can be offered online or in-person. By the end of this training, participants will: 
  • Understand the key principles of Kingian nonviolence 
    
  • Understand the important aspects of state law and UC policy as it relates to on-campus advocacy
  • Articulate multiple forms of nonviolent direct action
  • Plan a social change project of your choosing 
• Navigating Hateful and Uncomfortable Conversations: A two-hour training that is offered in-person. By the end of this training, participants will be able to: 
  • Articulate the key aspects of nonviolent communication
  • Utilize nonviolent communication to navigate hateful or uncomfortable conversations
• Dialogues: An hour and a half-long dialogue that can be offered online or in-person. Dialogues provide students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to: 
  • Reach across difference to learn about timely social justice issues in a nonjudgmental setting;
  • Reflect on how these issues impact our lived experiences;
  • Identify on-campus and off-campus resources that can help participants cope with and navigate the social justice issues 
• Intercultural Development Inventory Debriefs: The Center for Community Engagement offers individualized and group debriefs using the Intercultural Development Inventory. The Intercultural Development Inventory, or IDI, is a cross-cultural, online survey that assesses intercultural competence at the group or individual level. Debriefs are free for students, $20 for each faculty participant, and $20 for each staff participant.