Office of Equity Education and Outreach Workshop Request

Office of Equity Education and Outreach Workshop Request

The Office of Equity offers a variety of informational sessions, trainings, and workshops designed to inform students, staff, faculty, and visitors about their rights and responsibilities as members of the Northwestern community, and to equip community members with the tools to create a vibrant, equitable, and accessible learning environment for all.

All trainings and workshops are customized for your specific department or group, and training facilitators will meet with department/group leaders prior to the training to gather background information, answer questions, and discuss logistics. We welcome inquiries about training topics not listed below.

The Outreach and Education team is operating at reduced capacity due to staffing, and our ability to respond to individual requests is limited. We encourage community members who are interested in receiving education from our office to register for one of our open enrollment trainings. We review workshop requests once a week on X day, and will respond to all new requests by X day. Thank you for your patience.

Until further notice, all of our trainings and workshops are being offered virtually.

Please note, we staff all new requests on Fridays, and you can expect to hear back by the following Monday.

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Depending on the type of session, you are requesting, we typically require between 2 weeks and 6 weeks between date of request and date of the session. Please provide at least two options for session date and time. We do our best to accommodate all incoming requests, however we cannot guarantee that staff will be available for your specific requested date/time. If this is the case, we will work with you to find a suitable alternative date/time
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Office of Equity Workshop Offerings 2021-2022

A) Equity 101: What you need to know
- Intended audience(s): Students, faculty, staff, and third parties
- Duration: 30-45 minutes
- This engaging workshop provides an overview of individuals' rights, responsibilities, and options under the University's Policies on Institutional Equity, which includes protections from Harassment, Discrimination, and Sexual Misconduct. For staff, faculty, and others, including students, who are paid by the University, this session can include a discussion of responsible employee reporting obligations, including where and how to report, responding to disclosures of harassment, discrimination, and sexual misconduct, and how to talk with students and colleagues about your reporting obligations.

B) Responsible Employee 101: Navigating Your Reporting Obligations with Empathy and Care
- Intended audience(s): Students, faculty, staff, and third parties
- Duration: 60-90 minutes
- This workshop will deepen participants understanding of the responsible employee duties, policies implemented through the Office of Equity, and reporting options. Facilitator(s) will share some trauma informed strategies for responding to disclosures as well as resources for sharing your responsible employee obligation with other students.

C) Preventing and Addressing Harm in Student Organizations
- Intended audience(s): Student organizations and groups
- Duration: 60-90 minutes
-This dialogue-based workshop asks student group members to engage with each other to communally identify how conflict and harm rooted in microaggressions may be manifesting itself in their student group/organization, and provides space to explore ways of responding. Dialogue-based work will explore: What is harm? What is the difference between conflict and harm? How can we address conflict and harm when experienced in our student organization? How can we prevent harm from showing up in our student organization?

D) Framework and Tools for Interrupting Harm
- Intended audience(s): Students, faculty, staff, and third parties
- Duration: 90 minutes
- This fast-paced, engaging workshop uses a multi-media approach to explore the concepts of power, privilege, and microaggressions, and how they show up in our work. The facilitator will share several intervention strategies, and guide participants through case studies designed to help them identify harm in the moment and practice intervening to prevent or remedy harm in real-world scenarios.

E) Cultivating Gender Inclusive Spaces
- Intended audience(s):Faculty and staff
- Duration: 60-90 minutes
- This interactive workshop will provide participants with vocabulary, concepts, and frameworks to understand how to support community members of all genders. Participants will build skills and best practices for realizing true inclusion centering gender and gender expression. If you are seeking a more in-depth training about gender and/or sexuality, please visit this site to learn more about the University's LGBTQIA+ Ally Training
Equity Series

F) Equity Series:
- Intended audience(s): Faculty, staff
- Duration: Minimum of 3 sessions, maximum of 6; 90 minutes/session
- This customized training series is designed for departments who are ready to engage in long-term dialogue and change work to shift their norms and practices towards true inclusivity. Series topics may include: what we talk about when we talk about power, privilege, and oppression: building a common language; understanding implicit bias; action planning for justice and inclusivity. *Please note that due to staffing capacity, we are only able to offer a limited number of series per quarter. There is an application form and process for units/departments to participant in the Equity Series.
Which Information Session or Training/Workshop are you interested in?

Which Information Session or Training/Workshop are you interested in? A) Equity 101: What You Need To Know B) Responsible Employee 101: Navigating Your Reporting Obligations with Empathy and Care C) Preventing and Addressing Harm in Student Organizations D) Framework and Tools for Interrupting Harm E) Cultivating Gender Inclusive Spaces F) I'm interested in more information about the Equity Series G) I'm interested in a talking to someone about the best option for my group/department
Please let us know if you or your group have any specific access or accommodation needs e.g closed captioning, printed copies of the powerpoint. If not, please write N/A.
Please share some additional information that will help us understand how we can best support your work. What are your goals for this training? What related trainings or other programming has your department engaged in?
Have you requested work from any other offices? If so, what other related workshops or trainings do you currently have scheduled?