Are you a Baskin Engineering postdoc, staff, or faculty member interested in learning how to shape a more inclusive working environment? Join one of the workshops below.

• May 31, 2023, 9:30-11:00 a.m., E2 215
• May 31, 2023,  3:00-4:30 p.m., E2 215

Workshop description: How we see and understand the world influences how we interact with others, make decisions, and interpret others’ actions. To be equitable and inclusive leaders, educators, or humans, we must understand our positionality, i.e., the social and political context that creates our identity, and how our identity influences and biases our perception of and outlook on the world. Positionality affects research, teaching, leading, policymaking, and everyday interactions. This workshop provides a scaffolded and reflexive exercise to help you examine your positionality, increase awareness, and extend greater empathy, compassion, and understanding to others. 

Learning Outcomes: 

• Participants will investigate when identity and perspective are important factors in a professional setting. 
• Participants will examine how their identity and perspective influence their work and lives.
• Participants will begin crafting a positionality statement that allows them to increase awareness and extend greater empathy, compassion, and understanding to others. 

Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP.