Description
Create Shared, Inclusive Spaces for Engagement
Students aren’t necessarily taught skills for respectful dialogue around political disagreement. In what some describe as a ‘cancel culture’ or ‘accountability culture’, conversations around difference often die before they ever get started. Various political identities are fundamental to our government structure, but it has become so polarized, and with the elections looming, campus administrators are gearing up for challenges when heated political discourse occurs.
Some students are afraid to be themselves, hiding their viewpoints. Others only know how to communicate about these issues negatively. Higher education is tasked with so much now – education, personal development, attention to mental health and basic needs – that teaching students how to discuss their political identity can get lost amongst other priorities.
Our presenter will help you and your staff explore and improve your capacity to engage in skills development, situated in recent data on student political engagement. Learn principles around sustained dialogue and how those principles can support meaningful, respectful conversation and relationship building, especially during contentious times.
Topics Covered
Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you:
- Learn principles around sustained dialogue and how those principles can support meaningful, respectful conversation and relationship building, so you can help faculty and staff build capacity for these conversations.
- Help students harness the ability to be uncomfortable, without discomfort equating to being unsafe – define and set reasonable expectations around this.
- Discuss ways peers can support each other through learning and welcoming political identity development.
- Highlight ways of seeking to repair relationships after harm is caused.
Validate the ways political identity matters and how to create shared, inclusive spaces for political engagement.
Presenter
Ali Martin Scoufield (she/her) is a scholar-practitioner with twenty years of experience working and leading in higher education.
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Included When You Purchase
- 90-minute online session with carefully selected expert(s)
- Unlimited access to view webinar recording on demand
- Materials for your team (handouts, discussion questions, etc.)
- Certificate of completion for each participant
- Weekly newsletter – What's Working on Campus
Instructions for access are available immediately upon checkout. You may share this On-Demand Training with any staff members from your campus community for unlimited viewing. For information about licensing this webinar for unlimited distribution on your institution’s internal network/server, email info@paper-clip.com.
