DEI Workshops

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. 

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.

Length: 6 hours (including a 1-hour lunch break)

Collaborating Office: The Spectrum Center

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.

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.

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: This session is open to all LSA faculty and staff. Graduate and undergraduate student staff should contact Mikalia Dennis at mikaliad@umich.edu to enroll.

Length: 2 hours

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

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

Audience:
This course is required for all staff who are involved in the staff recruiting and selection process for LSA.

Note: A recording of this session is available for viewing on the LSA Gateway.
 

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: This session is open to all LSA faculty and staff. Graduate and undergraduate student staff should contact Mikalia Dennis at mikaliad@umich.edu to enroll.

Length: 2 hours

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.

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
• Identify and discuss techniques to combat microaggressions, as a bystander or as a recipient

Audience: This session is open to all LSA faculty and staff. It is recommended that participants complete a course on Implicit Bias before taking this session. Graduate and undergraduate student staff should contact Mikalia Dennis at mikaliad@umich.edu to enroll.

Length: 2 hours

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.

In line with our mission to develop a workplace culture that is supportive of all personal and family life, this session covers important topics such as how to integrate responsibilities at work and at home, what resources are available to support life in and outside of work, and ways to support a flexible work schedule or remote work options.

Length: 1 hour

Collaborating Office: Work-Life Resource Center

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.