The goal of this two-day workshop is to support faculty, staff, and student learning and competencies around inter- and intragroup relations, conflict, and social justice across a range of social identities, including race, gender, sexuality, social class, religion, and nationality.

Using Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) pedagogies as a framework, with a focus on experiential exercises that encourage self-reflection, this interactive workshop will engage participants in a range of topical areas including:

• Creating and maintaining a safe classroom climate
• Exploring social identities, microaggressions, unconscious bias, and how they impact student learning and faculty/staff interactions
• Teaching sensitive or controversial topics (e.g., power, privilege, inequality)
• Engaging conflict, emotion, and resistance in a productive manner
• Offering shared language and methods for building a social justice community

The workshop will conclude with discussion about promising practices and how to effectively integrate IGD principles into traditional classes and other co-curricular activities at Luther College.

The workshop will conclude with discussion about promising practices and how to effectively integrate IGD principles into traditional classes and other co-curricular activities at Luther College.

Lead Facilitator:      Kristie Ford, Ph.D.

                                    Professor of Sociology

                                    Quadracci Chair in Social Responsibility

                                    Director of the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning

                                    Founder and Consultant for Program on Intergroup Relations

                                    Skidmore College

Co-Facilitator:          Charles Behling, Ph.D.

                                    Professor Emeritus of Psychology

                                    The Program on Intergroup Relations

                                    University of Michigan