Treaties Recognition Week helps students, faculty, staff, and the public learn about treaties from diverse Indigenous perspectives and encourages greater understanding of the importance of treaties in Ontario.
Please note: This workshop has been cancelled
How do you respond when someone says something that makes you uncomfortable or feels disrespectful? Often, we are too surprised to respond at all or, in the moment, we respond ineffectively.
Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
Intersectionality recognizes the overlapping experiences that creates a person’s lived experience. This workshop amplifies and explores the importance of the interconnected aspects of a person’s experience and identity that may create barriers for them in the workplace and how essential this is the continued development of individual and organizational diversity and inclusion (D &I) practice.
A part of Treaties Recognition Week 2020, Professor Susan Roy will discuss Treaties relationship with government, connecting historical context to current issues, challenges
This course provides an opportunity to learn how to manage difficult conversations when they arise, whether it be with a manager, supervisor, colleague or even family member.
Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
In this workshop, we will openly discuss our personal responsibility within a historical context of global colonialism and white dominance. We will talk about our personal connection to colonialism, land, class and education and how this places us within the anti-racist movement.
Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
At this session, you will find out more about the key updates to Policy 42: the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Policy and Procedures, the process for making a complaint, as well as your roles and responsibilities as a university employee when someone has been impacted by sexual violence
Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
This workshop will raise your awareness of behaviours and attitudes that may contribute or lead to workplace harassment. You will also learn how these can be recognized and addressed in order to minimize the incidences of harassing behaviour.
Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
The Indigenous Initiatives Office is pleased to have Ela Smith present the second of a two-part workshop where campus community members will gain a deeper understanding of historic and current realities for First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) people in Ontario and Canada.
Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
This workshop/presentation focuses on topics of culture, intersectionality, social determinants of health, racism, and White privilege in Canada and Canadian institutions of learning.
Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff