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TRANSFORMING TOGETHER
What is the ever changing work of WPA? What are the challenges? the celebrations?
What is the ever changing work of WPA? What are the challenges? the celebrations?
What role can co-reflective thinking partners play in helping to navigate these challenges?
What role can co-reflective thinking partners play in helping to navigate these challenges?
How do the stories we tell ourselves about the work impact our practice and vice versa?
How do the stories we tell ourselves about the work impact our practice and vice versa?
Join us!
Join us!
WPA-GO's Mentoring Committee invites you to our 3rd Annual Summer Workshop Series dedicated to professionals and students who are interested in and/or participating in writing program leadership.
Today, WPAs (e.g., FYW, WC, WAC/WID directors) are inundated with wicked problems that have historically harmed our most under-resourced and underserved stakeholders. Even so, in order to temper burnout and cynicism, WPAs must also leverage their ability to recognize and cultivate joy in and with their work.
Navigating these problems and cultivating joy require deep (co)reflection and engaged social action.
When, Where, How?
When, Where, How?
Participants will be asked to attend three [3] virtual workshop sessions once-per-month.
All sessions will be (CST) TBD.
Session #1 (TBD):
Mapping WPA Experience (120 mins)
Session #2 (TBD):
Collective Problem Solving (120 mins)
Session #3 (TBD):
Transformations & Takeaways (120 mins)
A Zoom link will be provided upon registration. Participation is entirely free.
What will you get from participating in this experience?
Build Community
Build Community
The work of WPA does not need to be done in isolation. These workshops are designed to help support your ability to network and build communities of thinking partners that you can leverage long after these workshops end.
Practice Problem Solving
Practice Problem Solving
These workshops will provide inroads to both specific contexts and generalizable scenarios that are typical to the work of WPA. You will engage with professionals in the field while you practice problem solving, compromise, and political savvy.
Define Values & Principles
Define Values & Principles
Defining principles with precision -- principles that are both practical and flexible to your specific contexts -- is necessary, and it can be challenging work. Doing so in community can make this process more navigable and transformative.
We would also like to offer a Letter of Participation upon request for completing all three workshops. This letter can be used for promotion materials or while you are on the job market.
Help spread the word!
Send our official flyer throughout your networks! The flyer includes a QR-code that leads to our homepage so folks can register.
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WPA-GO's Mentoring Committee invites you to our 3rd Annual Summer Workshop Series -- Transforming Together: Co-Navigating the Work of WPA. These workshops are designed to provide a space for graduate students and professionals to discuss, problematize, and continue cultivating a literacy for writing program leadership. We are excited to welcome Drs. TBD as guest facilitators. Registration is entirely free, and there are three exciting sessions to attend -- one in June, July, and August -- though we recommend attending as many as you are able. Please check out our homepage for more information and to register or contact Cody Bursch at bursc021@umn.edu with questions.
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