DEI Workshops

Building off the workshops on Implicit Bias and Microaggressions, participants will turn their attention to strategies to address bias in the workplace.  

Length: 2 hours

Using case studies and through facilitated discussions, participants in this session will:

• Discuss and apply techniques to combat microaggressions, as a bystander or as a recipient
• Consider examples of institutional bias and strategies to disrupt themIdentify methods to receive feedback
• Identify methods to receive feedback

Audience: All LSA staff, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates currently employed in LSA are welcome to attend. External guests may request to join as room allows.

Presented by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. Please direct accommodations requests to the LSA DEI Office (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu).

To register for a regularly scheduled session open to LSA staff please visit DEI Events.

This customized training will address Bystander Intervention, drawing from the U-M Change It Up model, as well as providing support for individuals following an encounter.

This workshop is split into two sessions, for a total of three hours. Participants will need to attend both Part I and Part II to complete the full workshop.

Part I of this training will review university policies related to harassment and discrimination, highlight best practices for bystander intervention, and identify ways in which to support individuals following an incident.

Part II of this training will provide participants with opportunities to apply the information learned in Part I using case studies.

These sessions will be led by staff from Prevention Education, Assistance & Resources (PEAR), but please contact the LSA DEI Office with questions or accommodations  requests (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu). 

Audience: All LSA staff, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates currently employed in LSA are welcome to attend. External guests may request to join as room allows.

To register for a regularly scheduled session open to LSA staff please visit DEI Events.

The Spectrum Center’s LGBTQ+ Allyhood Development Training Program, started in 2005, seeks to support an individual or organization’s process of development as it relates to LGBTQ+ inclusivity and advocacy. Allyhood Development Training (ADT) uses a social justice framework to illustrate the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ identified people to workshop participants. 

This workshop is split into two sessions, for a total of six hours. Participants will need to attend both Part I and Part II to complete the full workshop.

Topics include:

• social identities
• LGBTQ+ terminology 
• active bystander intervention strategies 
• practice utilizing the day’s knowledge and skills in real-life scenarios

Through active engagement in the training, participants will grow in their personal awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions as they relate to their engagement in doing ally work. The purpose of having the Allyhood Development Training is to promote a campus community in which everyone is treated with respect and dignity.

These sessions will be led by staff from the Spectrum Center, but please contact the LSA DEI Office with questions or accommodations requests (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu). 

Special note: Participants are expected to complete Spectrum's Introduction to LGBTQIA2S+ Communities and Identities webcourse before attending this workshop.

Audience: All LSA staff, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates currently employed in LSA are welcome to attend. External guests may request to join as room allows.

To register for a regularly scheduled session open to LSA staff please visit DEI Events.

Change it Up! brings bystander intervention skills to the University of Michigan community for the purpose of building inclusive, respectful and safe communities. It is based on a nationally recognized four-stage bystander intervention model that helps individuals intervene in situations that negatively impact individuals, organizations, and the campus community.

You will learn to:

• Identify self-awareness and social responsibility as qualities of strong personal leadership
• Discuss your own and others’ identities and experiences
• Determine the various options for effectively intervening during a negative situation
• Develop your ability to assess which intervention option is based on the situation
• Discuss and practice how to leverage bystander intervention skills within their campus communities

You will benefit by:

• Receiving high impact learning through educational theater
• Increasing your motivation to intervene in harmful situations
• Gaining ability to assess the effectiveness of multiple options for intervention
• Expanding your skills and confidence to successfully intervene in harmful situations

Note: The content in this program has been used for student groups across campus and is now being offered for University of Michigan faculty and staff. Through the use of educational theater, Change it Up! provides opportunities for participants to discuss and practice how to leverage bystander intervention skills within their campus communities.

Length: 2 hours

Collaborating Office: Student Life/ The Spectrum Center/ Organizational Learning

To register for a regularly scheduled session please visit the Organizational Learning website.

In order to have meaningful, productive conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion, we must start with a common language. This session will provide an introduction to key terminology as well as the categories and labels we use to describe others and ourselves. We will also examine how our identities shape the way we enter the world and our interactions with each other. Emphasis will be placed on using our identities to help us understand the identities and experiences of others

Length: 2 hours

In this session, participants will:

• Identify the benefits of inclusive environments
• Review key terminology related to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Reflect on the origin of identities, their intersectionality, and their meanings
• Use our own identities as a window to understanding the identities of others to build more authentic, empathic relationships

Audience: All LSA staff, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates currently employed in LSA are welcome to attend. External guests may request to join as room allows.

Presented by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. Accommodations requests can be sent to the LSA DEI Office (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu). 

To register for a regularly scheduled session open to LSA faculty and staff please visit DEI Events.

To request a private or customized session, please email: LSA-DEI-OFFICE@umich.edu

Length: 2 hours

In this session, participants will: 

• Increase awareness of how implicit bias can show up during the hiring process
• Gain an awareness of the importance of consistent guidelines, evaluation and candidate experience
• Discuss equitable hiring conventions
• Increase knowledge regarding affirmative action goals
• Learn about resources that exist in LSA and on campus

Special note: A recording of this session is available for viewing on the LSA Gateway

Audience: This course is required for all staff who are involved in the staff recruiting and selection process for LSA. All LSA staff, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates currently employed in LSA are welcome to attend. External guests may request to join as room allows.

Presented by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. Accommodations requests can be sent to the LSA DEI Office (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu). 

To register for a regularly scheduled session open to LSA faculty and staff please visit DEI Events.

Length: 2 hours

In this session, participants will learn to: 

• Examine your own background and identities and how these identities shape our experiences and perspectives
• Discuss how the brain functions, and relate how unconscious bias is a natural function of the human mind
• Identify patterns of unconscious bias that influence decision-making processes
• Confront internal biases and practice conscious awareness
• Review strategies to create transformational change in the workplace

You will benefit by:

• Raising self-awareness, sparking conversation with others and initiating new actions
• Enhancing your professional and personal effectiveness on and off the job
• Positively influencing personal and organizational decisions
• Creating stronger and more positive work relationships with others

Audience: All LSA staff, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates currently employed in LSA are welcome to attend. External guests may request to join as room allows.

Presented by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. Accommodations requests can be sent to the LSA DEI Office (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu). 

To register for a regularly scheduled session open to LSA faculty and staff, please visit DEI Events.

To request a private or customized session, please email lsa-dei-office@umich.edu.

Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental slights. They can be overt, subtle or unintentional, have become a huge area of concern. Whether one believes this phenomenon is real, perceived, or a made up term for invalid experiences, you all will benefit from this session.

Length: 2 hours

In this session, participants will:

• Learn about "microaggressions" and other concepts relevant to this topic
• Obtain an understanding of the social and psychological impacts of microaggressions
• Engage in activities and dialogue to unveil microaggressions within the workplace
• Validate experiences with microaggressions

Special note: It is recommended that participants complete a course on Implicit Bias before taking this session. 

Audience: All LSA staff, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates currently employed in LSA are welcome to attend. External guests may request to join as room allows.

Presented by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. Accommodations requests can be sent to the LSA DEI Office (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu). 

To register for a regularly scheduled session open to LSA faculty and staff, please visit DEI Events.

To request a private or customized session, please email lsa-dei-office@umich.edu.

This workshop focuses on the role of religious and spirituality identities as an important aspect of DEI work on campus.

Length: 2 hours

• Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding the variety and complexity of religious, secular, and spiritual (R/S/S) identities on our campus; 
• understand why support for religious pluralism and spiritual development is important on a public college campus; 
• learn about key religious accommodations and resources and how to access them in their work to support faculty, staff, and students; 
• discover ways to get involved in DEI work around R/S/S identities.

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the importance of religious, secular, and spiritual identity in faculty, staff, and students’ lives and in DEI work on our campus
2. Identify the main religious groups on our campus and how their proportions differ among faculty, staff, and stud;ents; understand the limitations of the way we collect data about religious background
3. Name the key religious accommodations and resources available to faculty, staff, and students; identify areas in which they can influence religious accommodations and in which there is more work to be done
4. Understand what is acceptable and what is unacceptable regarding religious expression on a public university campus and barriers you may encounter around R/S/S DEI
5. Name three concrete steps they can take in within their sphere of influence to create greater equity and inclusion for students, faculty, and staff who hold minoritized religious identities
6. Name ways to get more involved in DEI work around R/S/S identities on campu

Audience: All LSA staff, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates currently employed in LSA are welcome to attend. External guests may request to join as room allows.

Presented by representatives from the Interfaith Advisory Group, but please contact the LSA DEI Office with any questions or accomodations requests (lsa-dei-office@umich.edu). 

To register for a regularly scheduled session open to LSA faculty and staff, please visit DEI Events.