Cultivating Community 2024-25 Workshops

Cultivating Community: Foundations of Inclusive Excellence

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Beyond the Surface: Exploring Social Identities
This workshop introduces key concepts related to individual and group identity formation and explores how intersecting identities and social positions shape our worldviews, life experiences, and interactions. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of their own and others’ identities, enhancing skills for critical self-reflection and thoughtful engagement across differences.

A Place for All: Fostering Belonging
This workshop explores the essential role that a sense of belonging plays in student and employee success and well-being. It examines the harmful impacts of microaggressions and other acts of exclusion and offers concrete tools for fostering a sense of belonging and building inclusive communities of care where everyone is welcomed, valued, and respected.

Introduction to Anti-Racism
This interactive module examines the social construction of race and the ways racism persists in society. Participants will learn how to identify and actively counter racism in everyday life, making a plan to build their anti-racist practice.

Engaging Equity: Navigating Power and Privilege
This workshop explores how power and privilege operate on personal, interpersonal, social, and institutional levels. Through collaborative discussion and grounded reflection, participants will strengthen their understanding of the multidimensional aspects of power. They will learn to recognize and interrogate privilege and marginalization and identify strategies for disrupting the foundations of inequity.

Bending Toward Justice: Confronting Systemic Oppression
This workshop examines deeply rooted causes of injustice. Using a trauma-informed approach, participants will explore historical and contemporary dynamics of oppressive systems like racism, classism, heterosexism, and ableism. They will learn to recognize structural barriers at work in higher education and identify policies and practices that confront systemic oppression.

Standing Together: Allyship in Action
This workshop explores the roles of allies and accomplices in advocating for marginalized communities and challenging systems of oppression. Through collaborative discussion of specific scenarios, participants will advance their understanding of the process and components of effective allyship and enhance their capacity to stand with and for others at UCI and beyond.

Circles of Change: Building Restorative Practices
This workshop introduces foundational principles of restorative justice and offers tools for strengthening relationships, building community, and navigating conflict.