"Facilitating Challenging Conversations: Preparing Yourself"

This session is being offered to all CSUSB employees as part of the Staff Development Center's Cross-Campus Collaboration (CCC) with Systemwide Learning & Development. For questions, assistance with registering, or accommodation requests, please email staffdevelopmentcenter@csusb.edu or call x73125.

About "Facilitating Challenging Conversations: Preparing Yourself":
Hosted by San Diego State University
Conversations around justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion are important and necessary to ensure meaningful action; they also can be challenging and fraught with the potential for missteps, misunderstandings, and pushback from students and/or colleagues. Addressing these challenges effectively requires the facilitator to have a strong awareness of their own biases and emotional triggers. In this workshop, participants will be invited to engage in self-reflection (both during and after the workshop) in order to prepare to handle these conversations with compassion and equanimity.
Participants will: Explore the challenges they anticipate facing when engaging in DEI conversations Reflect on their own biases and triggers and consider how those manifest in interactions with others.

About CCC:
Many classes that were formerly in-person are now offered virtually. This gives us a unique opportunity to extend campus classes beyond campus borders and offer a new way to share professional development across the CSU! View the full schedule and more information on the Cross-Campus Collaboration webpage.

The following campuses have volunteered to participate in a cross-campus collaboration and offer classes exclusively to other participating campuses:
Bakersfield, Chancellor's Office, Channel Islands, Chico, East Bay, Fresno, Fullerton, Humboldt, Long Beach, Monterey Bay, Northridge, Pomona, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, San Marcos, Sonoma, and Stanislaus.