Conversations on Equity & Resilience

CONVERSATIONS ON EQUITY AND RESILIENCE

Daniel Roth, Cornell University Mieko A. Ozeki, University of Vermont

SESSION GOALS

•  Identify our own values.

•  Feel the support to have a conversation about equity and the environment on your campus.

•  Identify a small next step to take in the next month that excites you.

RECOGNIZING THE SITUATION

•  Lack of relationships across differences. •  Organizational turf and priorities •  Different histories of environmental and social justice

movements. •  Immediate assumption of similarities without recognizing

respective histories. •  People feeling a sense of urgency around different issues.

SHOWING UP

Spend 3 minutes to write, draw creatively about the values that motivate you to make a difference on your campus.

MIND MAPPING

Mindmapping is the process of visually presenting information via a diagram.

Mindmapping is a tool that

conceptually associated with the process of systems thinking.

Resilient Culture

Behaviors

Shared Values

• What campus systems can support behaviors that honor shared values?

• What would it look like if these values were alive and well on campus?

• What are the shared values of diversity, justice, resiliency, and sustainability?

TAKING IT HOME

Write down:  1 request for support  “It would really feel helpful to have or hear ….”

 1 small next step that excites you