1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
1. Racial Healing Circle Design
Mee Moua
This session is designed for institute participants who have experience facilitating racial healing circles. This session will cover strategies for handling circle facilitation challenges and opportunities as well as provide an opportunity for facilitators to refresh and extend their knowledge on circle design.
Target Audience: Intermediate and Advanced
Zoom passcode (if needed): 291851
2. Integrating TRHT into the Curriculum into the First-Year Experience
Teresa Neighbors and Tina Terry
Big Sandy Community and Technical College and the University of California, Irvine will showcase their efforts to empower youth through Racial Healing using the TRHT methodology. At Big Sandy, Rx Racial Healing Circles are now a key component in the First Year Experience class for incoming undergraduates. UC Irvine has woven TRHT into its upper-division Deconstructing Diversity Initiative and its High School Social Justice Leadership program. This session will feature an in-depth discussion on the integration process at each campus and the valuable lessons learned along the way.
Target Audience: All levels of expertise
Zoom passcode (if needed): 874522
3. Connecting TRHT to Institutional Missions and Strategic Planning
Cynthia Spence
This workshop will focus on integrating the TRHT framework into existing campus initiatives, including strategic plans. Many campuses undertake valuable work within their communities but struggle to align diverse efforts with the TRHT framework. Participants will learn how to conduct an environmental scan of racial justice initiatives and engage the entire campus community in the TRHT framework. Join us to enhance your campus’s approach to racial justice and foster a cohesive, community-wide commitment to transformative change.
Target Audience: Intermediate
Zoom passcode (if needed): 2024
4. Otterbein University and Austin Community Presents: Student Leadership Development Through the TRHT Lens
Dr. Khayree O. Williams & Dr. Frank Dobson
Join TRHT family from Otterbein University and Austin Community College for this exciting session! This session will highlight and provide insight on each institution’s strategic efforts to involve undergraduate student affinity groups, and students in leadership positions on campus in their respective institutional Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation work.
Target Audience: All levels of expertise
Zoom passcode (if needed): 133871
5. Preventing Burnout for Professionals Engaging in Racial Justice Work
Jermaine L. Pearson
Who cares for the caretaker? Who provides healing to healers? Racial Justice and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion work can be emotionally and mentally exhausting, particularly in light of today’s socio-political climate. Although the work we do is needed and essential to college campuses, it is important to know one’s limitations and identify areas that may trigger our own past trauma of working in the academy. This workshop will help professionals cope with triggers regarding race and provide self-care practices for those engaging in racial equity work.
Target Audience: All levels of expertise
Zoom passcode (if needed): 393681
6. Navigating to Your Institutional North Star: Best Practices for Aligning the TRHT Framework with the Institutional Mission in a Polarized Climate
Sharon Stroye & TRHT Emory University
In an era of increasing societal polarization, aligning institutional missions with inclusive and transformative frameworks like the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) effort is both challenging and essential. Emory University’s TRHT Campus Center, launched in July 2023, has embarked on an exploratory journey to understand the university’s climate, culture, and environment. This journey has informed the development of an integrated approach, “A Journey to Healing for One Emory.” This interactive workshop is designed to equip participants with strategies and best practices for harmonizing the TRHT framework with their institutional mission, even in a divided social climate. Participants will engage in a blend of presentations, interactive discussions, role-playing exercises, and collaborative activities. The workshop provides a supportive space for sharing experiences, discussing challenges, and developing actionable strategies for creating inclusive and transformative institutional environments.
Target Audience: All levels of expertise
Zoom passcode (if needed): 932010
7. Advanced Evaluation for TRHT Campus Centers: Bringing DEI Activities into a TRHT Evaluation Framework
Michele R. Guzman
In this session, geared toward established TRHT Campus Centers, the focus will be on learning a process for bringing DEI and TRHT activities on their campuses under one evaluation umbrella. Participants will: Examine the relationship between DEI Activities and the TRHT Framework. Understand the value of thinking through how DEI and TRHT activities and goals do and do not align. Apply a process of thinking through how DEI Activities can be evaluated to demonstrate outcomes grounded in the TRHT framework. Participants should come ready to share some current DEI activities they have been struggling to align with TRHT efforts and/or that they have been struggling to define success for under a TRHT framework. The presenter will walk through the process described above using participants’ examples.
Target Audience: Intermediate and Advanced
Zoom passcode (if needed): 431795