Fall workshops at a glance on YU Learn:
- REDDI Mini-Series Certificate - Promoting Accessibility and Proactive Accommodations
- REDDI Core Series: Addressing Discrimination Today
- Check out two new session dates in October for "Do the Work: Dialogue Across Differences" (a session from our REDDI miniseries on the Impact and Intersections of Creed-Based Harassment and Discrimination
Questions about REDDI and how to earn a certificate?
October
REDDI Mini-Series: Promoting Accessibility and Proactive Accommodations
Challenging Notions of Ableism: Breaking Barriers to Social Inclusion
In this workshop, participants will acquire a better understanding of disability as a social construct. They will learn about key concepts such as ableism and the social model of disability. Participants will also engage in reflection exercises to begin challenging ableism in everyday life.
Oct. 3, 2024, 10:00AM - 11:30AM
New REDDI sessions available in October
This session is from the REDDI Miniseries on the Impact and Intersections of Creed-Based Harassment and Discrimination
Do the Work: Dialogue Across Differences
Through a series of engaging activities and reflection exercises participants who take part in this workshop will be able to: Identify personal limitations to engagement in dialogue across differences.
Identify what they need to engage in meaningful conversation through respectful dialogue without the intention of persuasion.
Develop personal strategies to manage emotions in order to look past individual differences and hear the humanity of someone’s lived experiences. This session is being offered twice in October.
Select a date/time below:
Understanding and Accessing Family Status Accommodation
In this workshop, you'll learn more about what family status accommodation is and how to respond to requests. Participants will receive an overview of the rights and responsibilities in the accommodations process based on the Ontario Human Rights Code and relevant policies at York University, as well as some strategies that will assist in increasing inclusion and accessibility in the York community.
Oct. 17, 2024, 10:00AM - 11:30AM
Effective Insights and Approaches from Universal Design Principles
Participants will develop an understanding of universal design and academic integrity in an educational environment and consider the ways universal design can become part of a teaching strategy. Discussion and activities will offer opportunities for participants to obtain strategies for ensuring academic integrity while also providing inclusive learning experiences for all.
Oct. 22, 2024, 10:00AM - 11:30AM
Accessing and Responding to Accommodations
Participants receive a detailed overview of the rights and responsibilities in the accommodations process based on the Ontario Human Rights Code, such as those involving disability (including mental health), creed (religion), and sex/gender. In addition to learning how to request and respond to accommodation needs, participants will learn strategies that will assist in increasing inclusion and accessibility in the York community.
Oct. 24, 2024, 1-2:30 PM
Do the Work: Intervening on Ableism
Building on the previous sessions in this mini-series, this participatory workshop will ask attendees to practice interventions in scenarios of ableism, exclusion, and discrimination. Groups will brainstorm solutions and try them out, and feedback will be offered to encourage growth and skill development. This session relies on participants being familiar with the concepts explored in the mini-series Preventing Sex and Gender Harassment and Discrimination.
Oct. 29, 2024, 1:00PM - 2:30PM
November
REDDI Core Series: Addressing Discrimination Today
Employment Equity Principles towards Inclusion
This workshop focuses on effective ways to achieve equity in the workplace, highlighting the relevant policies and laws that support efforts to build healthy and inclusive workplace environments and cultures.
November 5, 2024, 1-2:30 PM
Understanding Freedom of Expression at York
This workshop is designed to strengthen participants’
understanding of the fundamental freedom of speech
rights at York University and will give participants the
opportunity to explore the features, limits, and tensions
that come with free expression.
November 14, 2024, 10:00 AM-11:30
Advancing Organizational Change to Foster
a Culture of Belonging
Building on an understanding that organizations and institutions continue to embody many of the ways in which our society has created barriers to equity and inhibited inclusion, this session will consider discrimination from a systemic lens, and ask participants to engage in meaningful discussions on systems change. Participants will be invited to reflect on their own roles and positionalities within York and other organizations and communities and consider how to build collaborative responses to systemic inequities.
November 20, 2024, 1:30PM to 3:00
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Do the Work: Intervening on Ableism
Building on the previous sessions in this mini-series, this participatory workshop will ask attendees to practice interventions in scenarios of ableism, exclusion, and discrimination. Groups will brainstorm solutions and try them out, and feedback will be offered to encourage growth and skill development. This session relies on participants being familiar with the concepts explored in the mini-series Preventing Sex and Gender Harassment and Discrimination.
December 3, 2024, 1:00PM - 2:30PM
