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This introductory workshop is designed to give staff, students, and faculty a broad understanding of equity and how our interactions with one another are shaped by systems of oppression, power, and privilege. During our discussion, we will explore the ways in which inequities, biases, and microaggressions affect our lives as individuals and communities.

This interactive workshop will enable you to build conflict management and communication skills by assessing the context of the situation, planning a difficult conversation, and having the conversation in a way that reduces tension and facilitates a productive conversation.

Audience: Undergraduate Students, Staff, Faculty

December 6th is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. This year will mark the 30th anniversary of the tragic events that took place in 1989 at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal.

Anti-racism is an ongoing and active process of recognizing and addressing individual, institutional, and systemic racism. Engaging in this active process requires an awareness of how race and racism affects the lived experience of racialized groups and how white people contribute, actively or unconsciously, to racism. This workshop explores how to engage critically in anti-racism and enact anti-racist practices on campus.

Audience: Students, Faculty, Staff 

Participants learn more about gender identity/expression, sexual identity, homophobia, heterosexism, bi-phobia, transphobia and how these intersect with other identities.

Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff

The goal of this workshop is to raise our awareness of the kinds of behaviours and attitudes that are potentially precursors to workplace harassment and how these can be prevented or addressed in order to minimize the incidences of harassing behaviour.

Audience: Faculty and Staff

Join TK Pritchard, Public Education Manager at the Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC) of Waterloo Region, for this informative and itneractive workshop on Healthy Relationships. You will also learn about the services and resources available at SASC.

The KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) program is a unique, interactive and participatory history lesson developed in collaboration with Indigenous elders, knowledge keepers, and educators. This experiential workshop aims to foster understanding about our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

Audience: Students, Faculty, and Staff

Monthly Reading Group on the National Inquiry's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Final Report. This reading group will explore selected chapters of the Final Report and provide a guided discussion of the Inquiry's findings.

Audience: Faculty and Staff

This workshop is open to women identified and non-binary staff and faculty of all abilities.

Wen-Do focuses on safety and empowerment, preparing women-identified participants to defend themselves both mentally and physically, and giving them the confidence to deal with the diverse types of aggression they are most likely to encounter in real life.