The Chief Diversity Officer team invites students and staff to participate in various online diversity workshops.
If you are interested in taking one of the following workshops, please contact the Chief Diversity Officer Team via diversity@uva.nl.
Via Zoom, limited space available
Workshop leaders: Alfrida Martis and Janissa Jacobs
Language: English
An introductory training on diversity, inclusion and intersectionality. Participants are introduced to various diversity topics, frameworks and theory, so they gain basic knowledge in order to be able to talk more knowledgably about diversity. Themes that are covered include implicit bias, good practices, resource-sharing, allyship, power dynamics and diversity literacy.
We are counting on your attendance. Please let us know if you will not be able to attend the workshop so we can give others a chance to join. Alternatively, if you can’t make it, you could also recommend that a colleague join in your place.
Via Zoom, limited space available
Workshop leaders: Alfrida Martis and Janissa Jacobs
Language: English
A workshop on poetry for diversity and inclusion. Participants are encouraged to use poetry and creative writing as an outlet to comment on racism and discrimination and as a source of healing. There are no rules in creative writing, so this workshop is about sharing stories and expressing your voice.
We are counting on your attendance. Please let us know if you will not be able to attend the workshop so we can give others a chance to join. Alternatively, if you can’t make it, you could also recommend that a colleague join in your place.
An introductory training on diversity, inclusion and intersectionality. Participants are introduced to various diversity topics, frameworks and theory, so they gain basic knowledge in order to be able to talk more knowledgably about diversity. Themes that are covered include implicit bias, good practices, resource-sharing, allyship, power dynamics and diversity literacy. These are custom-made workshops for various entry-levels. Follow-up workshops are strongly advised, as these provide additional room for in-depth engagement.
One week prior to the workshop participants are required to submit cases/examples of diversity topics they are struggling with (in their personal and/or professional lives). Small implicit bias quiz.
During this consultation session participants are provided with extensive feedback and advice by an educator with many years of practice. This will allow them to improve their new and/or existing diversity-related initiatives.
Two weeks prior to the consultation participants are required to submit information on their initiatives, projects and/or policies.
Personal feedback session and advice on submitted papers.
These workshops are delivered by Stichting Our Bodies Our Voice (OBOV), a partner of the CDO team, and the Good Lad Initiative (GLI). A select number of these workshops are fully funded and available to faculties. For more details on what is available for your faculty, contact the CDO team: diversity@uva.nl
We have created this training so that during the spring and summer months, board members of UvA student/study associations can come together to focus on student and member safety and wellbeing for the 2020/21 academic year. The training focuses on creating strong team culture, inclusion and providing supportive, harassment free environments.
Workshop Introduction Package:
We will take student leaders through modular learning that will enable them to reflect upon and create action plans around:
An introduction to social safety at university. Opening up the conversation around boundaries, communication, and consent. Creating a supportive and safe culture. Introduces help-seeking options for students.
No preparation necessary
Opening up the conversation around boundaries, communication, and consent. Creating a supportive and safe culture. Introduces help-seeking options for students.
No preparation necessary.
Developing participants’ skills to intervene in a variety of challenging situations and strengthens assertiveness in both personal and external experiences.
No preparation necessary.
Focuses on the role of university party culture in relation to consent and sexual violence, and how we can improve social safety within our communities. Recognizing the ‘innocent’ components of social behaviour, and how this builds into a culture that ignores/encourages sexual violence.
No preparation necessary.
Develops participants’ skills in listening to and supporting survivors, and provides self-care tools for one’s own experiences.
No preparation necessary.
To engage those who identify as men in open, honest conversations about their roles in sexual violence prevention. Recognize the implications of the group they are a part of power dynamics, and gender equality.
No preparation necessary.
To recognise opportunities for students to create safer, more inclusive communities. To develop a set of pragmatic skills for safe and effective action.
No preparation necessary.
To uncover potential sources of tension and harmful cultures within staff-staff and staff-student interactions, and to prepare teaching staff to be able to prevent and manage difficult teaching, supervising, and classroom situations.
No preparation necessary.
Increase sensitivity to unrecognised barriers when creating an inclusive and productive university culture. Develop participants’ ability to be allies for others. Understand how this can be applied to their own work lives.
Teaching for Inclusion and Social Safety Workshop