The ALANA Cultural Center provides workshops and training that focus on building inclusive communities, understanding and appreciating difference, developing skills to talk about challenging topics, and increasing advocacy. The center’s workshops can be tailored to students, staff, or faculty groups. It can also customize workshops on topics not listed below.
The ALANA Cultural Center offers a variety of facilitated games that are designed to be both fun and challenging. These games are unique opportunities to engage participants in learning about themselves, challenging their own implicit biases in a forgiving space. An ALANA staff member must be present to facilitate these experiential games. They are great options for student organizations, small classes, department staff, and anyone looking to have fun and learn about themselves. Contact the ALANA Cultural Center to learn more about the options.
This workshop is an exploratory, introductory discussion on Allies and Advocates on ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Campus. As the conversation about diversity, equity, and inclusion deepens, it is necessary to develop a practical understanding of the roles of allies and advocates, and how to use privilege to advance the goal of equity and inclusion for everyone. In this workshop, we aim to explore the functional necessity of allies and advocates and how to turn good intentions into impactful actions. This session is recommended for participants who have already participated in the Implicit Bias, Beyond Implicit Bias, and Critical Whiteness workshop.
The Beyond Implicit Bias workshop focuses on having participants interrogate their own biases, where these biases come from, what biased practices look like both on the individual and structural level, microaggressions, stereotypes, and making more informed decisions, through dialogue and case studies. This session is recommended for participants who have already participated in the Implicit Bias workshop.