Attendees will acquire a set of biologically based skills from the Community Resilience Model (CRM)® that help our nervous systems manage daily stressors from a place of resilience or return to a resilient state of well-being following stressful events. Attendees will practice the skills for themselves and also hear examples of how they can bring attention and intention to what they are already doing to integrate these skills with themselves and with their students. Attendees will actively practice the skills of CRM and consider ways they can immediately incorporate them in their daily lives and professional practice.

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A discussion about challenges and opportunities for building a diverse and inclusive community. 

This session provides faculty with a structural framework for integrating scholarship into a demanding teaching and service schedule. Participants will explore practical tools and time-blocking strategies designed to protect cognitive space for deep work. By the end of the workshop, faculty will have a personalized roadmap for maintaining consistent scholarly momentum throughout the academic year.

This session will equip faculty with practical strategies to create assignments that not only deepen student learning but also provide meaningful data for course, program improvement and institutional assessment.

Borrowing from authors who've drawn on ancient spiritual formation practices, this session will surface mental models and concerns around AI, outline the AHAH approach in pedagogical design, and provide space to demonstrate how you can apply the approach to your own course materials.

Bring your laptop and begin building Gemini tools in Canvas. The GFD Design team will demonstrate how to use Gems and Gemini Notebook (f.k.a. NotebookLM) to guide students in organizing projects, perform exercises, and give students more agency in how they interact with instructional materials. Note: you will need a laptop to maximize the session. 

Today's graduates need more than a polished resume; they need to know how to use AI strategically without losing their own voice. In this interactive session, we'll share practical tools, prompts, and classroom strategies that help students create stronger resumes, prepare for interviews, and enter the job market with confidence while staying authentic. We'll also discuss strategies for making graduates more desirable to employers by intentionally building the skills, experiences, and professional presence that hiring managers value, drawing on lessons from George Fox's Interior Design program, where 100% of graduating students in Spring 2026 accepted job offers before graduation.

Join us as we explore the concepts of calling, transition, and how faculty members with backgrounds in clinical practice or industry can thrive in the world of academia.

How can faculty remain explicitly Christian while creating classrooms in which non-Christian students can participate honestly and meaningfully? This interactive session will introduce a framework for hospitable witness and help faculty consider classroom norms, pedagogical practices, and responses to disagreement that preserve Christian conviction while respecting students’ dignity, conscience, and agency.

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Welcome to a lecture-less workshop where we’ll crowdsource solutions for...'opportunities'...specific to women in higher ed. In under an hour we’ll move from shared workplace realities to hidden potentials and finish with both quick wins and strategic ideas we can actually use. Expect high-yield table talk, no fluff, lots of fun, and a chance to pair up for cross-campus coffee this semester.