Tuesday, April 28, 2020 (all day) to Thursday, December 31, 2020 (all day)
This online module is available anytime and focuses on the faculty hiring process and promotes best practices for recruitment and selection to ensure that the committee reaches an unbiased and fair decision.
Audience: Faculty
Thursday, August 20, 2020 (all day) to Thursday, December 31, 2020 (all day)
This online module is available anytime and focuses on ensuring UWaterloo employees are equipped to understand and identify behaviours that may be considered harassment or discrimination.
Audience: Staff
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
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
Thursday, October 22, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
This foundational workshop is designed to give you an understanding of equity and how our interactions with one another are shaped by systems of oppression, power, and privilege.
Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
In this workshop hosted by the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region, participants will learn about harassment, including the legalities within Canada and Ontario, and we will offer a special focus on online communication and how you can contribute positively.
Audience: Students
Tuesday, November 3, 2020 — 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
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
Tuesday, November 3, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
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.
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
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
Thursday, November 5, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
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
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 — 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
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
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
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
Friday, November 13, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
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
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
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
Thursday, November 19, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
This Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion webinar examines how our perceptions of others are formulated, the entrenchment of bias that may be unconscious and its impact, and how to enhance awareness and reduce the potential for disrespect that bias can engender.
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
This foundational workshop is designed to give you an understanding of equity and how our interactions with one another are shaped by systems of oppression, power, and privilege.
Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
Thursday, November 26, 2020 — 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EST
In this online workshop hosted by the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region, we will discuss the impact of trauma on relationships, signs that a relationship is healthy/unhealthy, and tools and tips for healthy communication with the people in our lives.
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
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
Thursday, December 3, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
Situated within the values and frameworks of anti-racism, this session explores the historical foundation of anti-Black racism within Canada and its present day implications on Black communities.
Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
In this engaging online workshop hosted by the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region, we will focus on examining how different actions, behaviours, attitudes and beliefs contribute to healthy or unhealthy workplaces, and we will pay special attention to fostering healthy online communication.
Audience: Staff
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 — 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EST
The holidays are a time for connecting with those you care about. How can we support someone we love if they are struggling with trauma from sexual violence? Join us in a safer space to connect with other supporters and explore strategies to support the survivor(s) in your life
