A year-long course for a group of academic advisors to explore how social identities inform advising and mentoring processes; practice tools for leading and communicating across difference; strengthen their capacity to develop effective collaborations; and build a professional network of academic advisors interested in enacting systemic change past the completion of this course.
Interested in developing skills for fostering inclusion, connection, and equity? Concerned about conflicts in the workplace and how to engage effectively across difference? Motivated to learn with others who are passionate about making sustainable change in their professional contexts?
In this certificate program, you will expand your exploration of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace with a deep dive into four development areas: human connection, social identity, intergroup communication, and strategic change. Research shows that many factors either facilitate or hinder connection. Some of these factors include communication skills, difference in identity and lived experiences, as well as sociocultural and organizational norms. Through engaging online exercises and required live virtual sessions held on Zoom, you will explore interpersonal connection and disconnection in the workplace and practice effective skills for meaningful dialogue across difference. You will then move beyond the interpersonal sphere to explore institutional and structural dynamics, practicing skills for strategic change.
IDP collaborates with units, departments, and faculty to develop offerings customized to your group’s needs. Through experiential learning exercises and authentic dialogue, participants gain practical skills for making their living and working spaces more inclusive environments.
Learn about and apply dialogic facilitation skills, expanding your ability to lead conversations across differences in the classroom. This program, led by the Intergroup Dialogue Project, is open to instructors of academic courses and will include four in-person interactive sessions.
