Val-YU-ing Our Peers
Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2022
Time: 6:00 – 7:00pm
Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/EDI070422
Registration Deadline: Register at link above for meeting password. Password is emailed 1 hour before start time.
Facilitators: Stefanie Fiore and Emery Alday
Fee: FREE
At Calumet and Stong Colleges, we strive to foster inclusivity and to celebrate diversity. Our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) team implements programs that allow students to learn about intersectionality and the ways in which we can achieve inclusion and equity within our school community. One of our programs includes a workshop called ValYUing Our Peers!
Whether we are learning in a physical classroom or through an online format, it is inevitable that as students, we will experience some challenging social interactions. Disagreeing about a controversial topic, using harmful speech, and misusing pronouns or terms associated with racially minoritized groups are just some of the ways in which conflict can arise among peers. In the ValYUing Our Peers workshop, Community Development Coordinators, Stefanie and Emery, will prepare you to prevent and deal with such instances of conflict. We will discuss some types of social challenges that may occur in an educational setting, how to engage in mutually respectful dialogue, how to manage disagreements, and how to navigate various issues that come up through small group work. Attendees will also engage in some interactive scenarios and a concluding Q
