Honoring Our Common Differences: Creating Inclusive Organizations

At a glance:

Date: October 28, 2008
Location: The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., Madison, WI
Time: 8:15 am (registration) 8:30 am-4:30 pm (workshop)
Fee: $145 (Includes instruction materials, CEU's, refreshment breaks, CEUs, and a non-refundable administration fee of $20). Lunch is on your own.
Instructor: Kathy Germann
Brochure: Download the Spring 2008 Brochure
Contact: Kristi Obmascher 608-262-8971; e-mail kobmascher@dcs.wisc.edu
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To register: See registration options. (Program #2014)

Description:

Inclusive organizations are ones where people of diverse social and cultural groups, (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, class, disability, LGBT), all people, experience uncompromising respect and dignity in an atmosphere of non-judgment and genuine acceptance. Inclusive organizations value and actively encourage multiple experiences and perspectives, creating a positive, collaborative environment in which people feel safe to be themselves, and are able to contribute their best work to the organization.

The goals of this workshop are to create a safe forum to engage in self-reflection and dialogue with others about inclusivity. Participants will:

• Discover how their life experiences and assumptions affect their understanding of diversity issues and their actions toward inclusivity.
• Explore how oppression operates on individual and institutional levels and how they may unintentionally exclude people.
• Gain insight into one's privileges and how to use them with integrity to enhance inclusivity.
• Assess the differences between non-discriminatory and inclusive behaviors on personal and institutional levels.
• Begin to identify actions to create more inclusive organization.

Your instructor:

Kathy Germann has conducted workshops on a broad range of human relations issues since 1982. Her audiences have included educators, clergy, and professionals working in human services, health care, law enforcement and business. In addition to teaching on three college campuses she is a former director of a YWCA and manager of a training unit in a human services agency. As a member of a management team, she took a leadership role in an agency-wide multicultural organizational development process. Kathy currently operates her own consulting and training business specializing in diversity issues, conflict resolution, team-building and training design.

General information:

Schedule: 8:15 am (registration) 8:30 am-4:30 pm

Location: The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St Madison, Wisconsin, 608-262-1122

Fees: $145 includes instruction, program materials, refreshment breaks, and a non-refundable administration fee of $20. Lunch is on your own.

Registration deadline: Enrollment is limited. In order to ensure your place in the program and to help us accommodate you, we ask that you register as early as possible.

Cancellation policy: If you are unable to attend or arrange for a substitute, you may obtain a refund minus the $20 administrative fee by contacting our registration department at least 3 business days prior to the program. If you cancel 3 business days or less before the program, or do not attend, you are responsible for the entire fee. To cancel or arrange for a substitute, please call 800-725-9692.

Accommodations: Please make your own travel and lodging arrangements. Information on accommodations and parking will be sent with your registration confirmation. Information about overnight accomodations can also be found on our information page.

Approved continuing education credit: 0.7 continuing education unit (CEU) will be awarded for the one-day workshop. The program falls within the subject matter identified by the following organizations for continuing education credits.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professional Development and Applied Studies, (Provider #1042) is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (800-225-6880) through the Approved Continuing Education program. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, PDAS, maintains responsibility for the program.

• 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs), University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Illinois Department of Professional Regulation/Social Workers (#159-000243)
• Iowa Department of Public Health/Social Workers (provider #35)
• Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Professional Development Plan
• National Board of certified Counselors (NBCC)

For program information: Kristi Obmascher 608-262-8971 or 800-442-4617; e-mail kobmascher@dcs.wisc.edu

Registration options:

By phone: Call 608-262-7942 or toll-free 800-725-9692.

By mail: Print, complete and mail the UW Continuing Studies registration form.

By fax: Print, complete and fax the UW Continuing Studies registration form.

Online: Secure online registration will become available for this program.