Workshops
Workshops
(Updated 3/4/2020 am -manually updated so your name may not appear right away)
We are pleased to welcome Jerry Koch-Gonzalez from Sociocracy for All to our CIRTL in-person meeting. As many of you know, in the fall of 2018 CIRTL adopted a modified Sociocracy method as our Decision-Making Process. Becoming knowledgeable and skilled in Sociocracy methods requires training and practice. This workshop is an excellent opportunity to develop facilitation skills within our community. While there is no expectations for participants in this workshop, some attendees may wish to pursue additional online training and/or serve as sociocracy facilitators on CIRTL working groups and/or help facilitate Network-wide discussion rounds. We encourage at least one member of each CIRTL operations group and working group to attend this workshop.
1. Facilitating Effective Egalitarian Organizations (no cap)
Jerry Koch-Gonzalez, Sociocracy for All
This workshop is about facilitating sociocratic meetings that invite all voices to be heard in discussions and in decisions to be made. The primary approach in this workshop is to learn by doing, supported by lectures and question/answer periods. The facilitation topics we will cover include:
- overview of key elements of sociocratic governance
- consent decision making using clarification, quick reaction, and consent rounds
- generating proposals
- standard meeting format, including facilitating rounds
- practice dealing with objections
Our aim is to leave you inspired by the possibility of effective meetings that engage participants and that you enjoy, and with tools that will help you make that happen.
Jerry Koch-Gonzalez is a certified sociocracy consultant and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) trainer. With his partner Ted Rau, he co-founded Sociocracy For All in 2016 and co-wrote the book Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy in 2018.
Sociocracy For All (SoFA) is member-run NGO bringing effective, egalitarian self-governance to the world. The SoFA website, sociocracyforall.org, is full of free and accessible written materials, visual diagrams, case studies, recorded webinars and more.
1. Monica Carter University at Buffalo
2. Kate Diamond CIRTL Central
3. Barbara Knuth Cornell University
4. Vincent Spezzo Georgia Institute of Technology
5. Allison Cuttner Emory University
6. Meredith Henry Emory University
7. Bob Mathieu University of Wisconsin-Madison
8. Marissa Stewart University of Maryland, College Park
9. Kathy Takayama University of Maryland, College Park
2. Leveraging the CIRTL Network as a Hub for Future Faculty Conversation (cap 30)
Christopher Chen, Columbia University
Preston Cumming, University of Colorado Boulder
Katherine Kearns, Indiana University
On CIRTL campuses with pre-existing mature programs, future faculty are often engaged in programming as peer leaders. However, CIRTL has not yet made use of these solid in-person peer networks that would benefit from the interdisciplinary and intercollegial atmosphere that the CIRTL cross-network programs provide. What are some other opportunities we as institutional leaders can create that generate new value in CIRTl for these already engaged future faculty? This session is focused on considering the variety of other ways we might be able to use the CIRTL network to provide a new type of opportunity for CIRTL as an online, intercollegiate hub for future faculty constituents to engage their skills in program delivery, community building, and organizational leadership. Building on some experience of hosting the CIRTL Future Faculty Summit in Fall 2019, and other burgeoning cross-network collaborations, participants in this session will think together as to what opportunities are made uniquely possible when we bring future faculty together for conversation and decision-making. By the end of the session, interested participants will hopefully find collaborators with whom to experiment and provide new opportunities to (and for) the network. CIRTL leaders interested in starting up peer-led programming will be welcome to collaborate to give these leaders the benefit of interacting with and learning from future faculty peer-leaders from other institutions.
1. Rique Campa Michigan State University
2. Lucia Dura University of Texas at El Paso
3. Lucas Hill University of Wisconsin-Madison
4. Darren Hoffmann University of Iowa
5. Julia Johnson Washington University in St. Louis
6. Lisa Kelly University of Iowa
7. Rob Linsenmeier Northwestern University
8. Denise Pope University of Massachusetts Amherst
9. Lisa Rohde University of Nebraska at Lincoln
10. Brian Rybarczyk University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11. David Lawrence Georgia Institute of Technology
12. Cora MacBeth Emory University
13. Jen Stanford Drexel University
14. Natalie Westwood University of British Columbia
15. Kate Williams Georgia Institute of Technology
3. My Voice, My Story: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Graduate Students and Postdocs (cap 30)
Colleen McLinn - Cornell University
Judy Milton - The University of Georgia
This workshop pairs video monologues constructed from experiences of real graduate students with facilitated discussions around the climate of academia and the role we all play in it. The primary objectives of My Voice, My Story are to utilize the power of narrative to achieve greater understanding of the lived experiences of graduate and professional students, share stories that frequently go untold, and to develop strategies on how to create more inclusive and supportive research and learning environments.
Listening to the stories of the characters portrayed in the My Voice, My Story monologues provides participants with opportunities for learning through:
- Listening for understanding, especially when we think we are different from one another
- Developing awareness and understanding of experiences of exclusion and inclusion in the learning and research environment
- Establishing respect for our mutual similarities and differences
- Experiencing empathy for and identification with all of the characters portrayed in the video monologues
- Seeing the commonality of our human experience that flows underneath all the stories
- Recognizing instances of unconscious bias
- Contributing to the development of strategies on how one can contribute to improving the organizational climate for all its members
This workshop was developed at Cornell University and is now being piloted at University of Georgia and elsewhere through the CIRTL AGEP project and Sloan Foundation University Centers for Exemplary Mentoring. While this workshop time slot is only long enough to experience and briefly reflect on a My Voice, My Story workshop experience, we encourage you to reach out to Sara Xayarath Hernández, Associate Dean for Inclusion & Student Engagement, Graduate School, Cornell University and Colleen McLinn, CIRTL at Cornell Executive Director if you are interested in exploring use of My Voice, My Story on your campus. See the My Voice, My Story site for more information. (2 hours)
1. Kelly Clark John Hopkins University
2. Terri Dunbar Georgia Institute of Technology
3. Robert Jacobson University of Tennessee, Knoxville
4. Mike Reese John Hopkins University
5. Nancy Ruggeri Northwestern University
6. Peter Newbury University of British Columbia
7. Jessica Maher University of Wisconsin-Madison
8. Karen Bovenmyer Iowa State University
19. Ana Estrada Georgia Institute of Technology
10. Jean Hertzberg University of Colorado Boulder
11. Maryam Khaqan Emory University
12. Tammy McCoy Georgia Institute of Technology
13. Kirstin Parkin Michigan State University
14. Carol Subino Sullivan Georgia Institute of Technology