2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
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Concurrent Workshops
1. Racial Healing Circle Design
Gwenn Weaver
This session is designed for institute participants who are new racial healing circle facilitators. This session will unpack the core elements of the racial healing circle and will unpack the process for designing and co-facilitating a Racial Healing Circle.
Target Audience: Beginner
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Zoom passcode (if needed): 2024
2. Racial Healing Circle Design
Mee Moua
This session is designed for institute participants who are new racial healing circle facilitators. This session will unpack the core elements of the racial healing circle and will unpack the process for designing and co-facilitating a Racial Healing Circle.
Target Audience: Beginner
Zoom passcode (if needed): 2024
3. Racial Healing and Youth Participatory Action: TRHT as a Program Design Methodology to Cultivate Youth Social Justice Change Agents
Teresa Neighbors
This workshop provides a comprehensive framework for applying the TRHT methodology in designing social justice youth participatory action programs. This workshop will explore the intricacies of program design, partner and resource development, implementation within structured (and political) organizations, and effective evaluation techniques. Additionally, participants will gain valuable insights from lessons learned through previous initiatives. This workshop is ideal for educators and program developers seeking to effectively foster social justice in youth communities.
Target Audience: Beginner and Intermediate
Zoom passcode (if needed): 315728
4. Building an Inclusive Institutional Narrative
Tessa Updike
What is your dominant institutional narrative, and how was it formed? What’s missing from that narrative, and how can you make it more inclusive? In this workshop, Citadel archivist and TRHT director Tessa Updike will share her journey researching, building, and sharing an inclusive institutional narrative for The Citadel’s campus and community. Participants will learn about the process used to research and collect stories related to The Citadel’s relationship with slavery; the college’s first international students; the racial desegregation of the Corps of Cadets; and the experiences of women over time. Tools and research strategies will be shared along with significant discoveries from Citadel history and their impact on students and the campus community – including class presentations given to first-year undergraduate students on underrepresented Citadel history. Participants will have opportunities to engage with each other and the presenter in this informative and inspirational workshop.
Target Audience: All levels of expertise
Zoom passcode (if needed): 867491
5. TRHT Evaluation 101
Michele R. Guzman
Join us for a dynamic workshop tailored for new and recently established TRHT Campus Centers. This session will delve into fundamental evaluation concepts essential for effective program assessment, including: Implementing evaluation at the outset of your initiatives rather than as an afterthought. Progressing from measuring outputs to understanding meaningful outcomes. Crafting clear and impactful outcomes specific to your TRHT initiatives. Exploring the nuances between contribution and attribution when evaluating TRHT efforts. Learning strategies to capture contributions to long-term or “distal” outcomes.
Target Audience: Beginner
Zoom passcode (if needed): 442442
6. Developing TRHT-informed Institutional Plans
Wendy Sherman Heckler and Frank Dobson
This workshop, led by Otterbein’s Provost and CDOshare their journey of integrating TRHT Campus Center principles into the institutional strategic plan and the forthcoming campus-wide “Belonging” plan. These initiatives focus on ‘telling the truth,’ ‘promoting healing,’ and ‘making tangible structural changes.’ Learn from their experiences, insights, and lessons learned in TRHT-informed strategic planning. This session is particularly valuable for institutions that have been implementing TRHT activities for a few years and are looking to deepen their understanding of institutional needs and desired outcomes. Aspiring or new TRHT Center institutions will also find the discussion worthwhile.
Target Audience: All levels of expertise
Zoom passcode (if needed): Z5pj2q
7. Building and Sustaining Community Partner Relationships
Susan Womack
The TRHT framework was built for community engagement – listening to each other, learning from each other, being intentional together – to eradicate hierarchies of human value. Many TRHT Campus Centers can benefit from working with community partners. In this session, we will engage in participatory dialogue about why community partners are important and how authentic community relationships can position Campus Centers as a resource for truth, racial healing, and transformation that extends beyond our respective campuses. The presenter will share experiences and strategies for identifying and working with community partners.
Target Audience: Beginners
Zoom passcode (if needed): 584968