Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging to sponsor workshops on social bias

The Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Purdue-West Lafayette invites faculty and staff to participate this spring in a virtual workshop series, Speaking Up: How Bystanders Can Change the Conversation About Social Bias. The experience will pair leading research with an engaging applied theater program to provide participants with an opportunity to increase their knowledge and awareness of how bias may occur in everyday settings, as well as to practice effective conversational strategies for responding to bias. 

The workshops are free and offered virtually twice each day on March 28 and April 5 from 9 a.m. to noon and 2-5 p.m. Register here to attend a virtual session. 
 
Leading this workshop is the collaborative effort of the University of New Hampshire's PowerPlay Interactive Development and Incluxion Works. The three-hour workshop will be broken into two sections exploring interactive activities in which participants will gain insight into their own social biases and how to better manage and respond to situations. Participants will have the opportunity to alter scenarios and learn to understand how different experiences can impact bias in academic settings. 
 
Faculty and staff interested in deepening their knowledge of social identity, raising their level of awareness regarding bias or wanting to learn how to better navigate conversations in their everyday lives are encouraged to participate. All sessions are open to faculty and staff at Purdue West Lafayette, Purdue Northwest, Purdue Fort Wayne, Purdue Global, Purdue Polytechnic Statewide locations and Purdue Polytechnic High Schools. 
 
For more information about the Speaking Up: How Bystanders Can Change the Conversation about Social Bias workshop, contact the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at diversity@purdue.edu.