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Allyship on Campus: Using the Neuroscience of Emotional Processing to Foster Inclusion

• Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2024
• Time: 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. ET
• Location: Online
• Fee: $69 (member); $89 (nonmember);

• Join Lesley Curtis, PhD, and Alex Rose, MSW, as they introduce three practices to foster emotional and relational awareness on campus. Learn how to navigate changing regulations, acknowledge personal experiences, and build an inclusive community. This session focuses on sustainable allyship, beginning with self-awareness and extending to create healing conditions for everyone.

• Summary

  Encouraging a sense of inclusion and belonging on campus is an important goal for many faculty and administrators. It can feel challenging to do this, however, in environments where changing rules and regulations make new connections difficult to imagine. Many people fear saying the wrong thing or causing harm. And sometimes there is little room to acknowledge our own emotions and experiences, even though this is often the most valuable component to inclusive community building.  

  In this 60-minute webinar, Lesley Curtis, Ph.D., and Alex Rose, MSW, introduce you to three practices that aid in the development of emotional and relational awareness. Following a model of culture change that connects the individual to the system and vice versa, participants will learn to identify the impact of prior experiences, in themselves and others. This is the foundation of a sustainable and humanizing form of allyship—one that begins with the self and radiates out to create healing conditions for all. 

  Following this program, you will be able to:

  • Understand how prior experiences impact our current relationships;
  • Practice the process of metacognition in order to encourage the resolution of challenging emotions; and
  • Learn practices of imagination and envisioning that help create new, more powerful forms of collaboration.

• Event Details

  Registration includes three-month, post-event access to the webinar archive.

  To view the presentation, supplemental materials, attendee list, your receipt, and your confirmation, use the "I’d Like To" option next to the Allyship on Campus: Using the Neuroscience of Emotional Processing to Foster Inclusion listing in MyNACE > Events. Remember to download your copy of the presentation deck (available one to two days prior to the webinar). A video archive will be available there as well within five (5) business days of the webinar's completion.

  To see the NACE cancellation policy, please visit our FAQ page.

• Format

  During this one-hour webinar, the presenter will deliver a synchronized audio and PowerPoint presentation. Participants will have time for live Q&A throughout the program and may be asked to contribute opinions or feedback via live chat, virtual polling, and other mechanisms.

  
  
  

• Presenters

  

  Lesley Curtis, Founder and President, Sagely

  Lesley Curtis, Ph.D., is the co-owner and founder of Sagely, a culture change consulting firm in Philadelphia. She holds a doctorate from Duke University, where she focused on storytelling and social justice movements. She created the neuro-narrative approach to culture change, which works at the intersection between emotion, story, and behavior as an effective site of redirection and healing. She offers workshops and talks to top companies and DEI professionals, and is a visiting lecturer at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her clients and students share a common desire to challenge rigid structures, move away from past pain, and build forms of connection and collaboration that feel easy and joyful.

  

  Alexandra Rose, Consultant and Facilitator, Sagely

  Alexandra Rose holds a Master of Social Work degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and specializes in trauma-informed practice in museums, galleries, and educational organizations. She works at both the micro- and macro-level when helping clients understand the dynamic connection between past and present. With Dr. Curtis, she developed the narrative map tool that strategically highlights the talents and experiences of inclusive leaders. She uses systems thinking, restorative justice, and peace-building approaches to foster connection and healing. As an International Peace Fellow sponsored by the Rotary Foundation at the University of North Carolina, she designed, developed, and evaluated museum interventions in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She has also spoken internationally on the value of self-reflection and self-healing as a practice of inclusive leadership.

• Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services, university relations and recruiting, and business affiliate professionals

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