Foundations of Practice: Conceptual

Serving Neurodivergent Learners

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 | 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Join us for our first session of 2024! In this interactive workshop, Christopher Hunn, Faculty Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Instruction in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, will help us understand and reflect on the ways we can best serve our neurodivergent students (and colleagues). Please note that this workshop includes breakout sessions, and participants are highly encouraged to use these opportunities for self-reflection and shared learning.

This will be a...

Equity-Oriented Advising and Coaching: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing

Thursday, November 2, 2023 | 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) can be used to support people with the challenge of making decisions and initiating change by exploring their ambivalence in an empathetic and empowering setting. This Taste of MI workshop will offer a general overview of the method and an interactive activity to showcase the hands-on approach used in the full introductory training. This is Part 3 of our four-part Equity-Oriented Advising and Coaching series.

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Equity-Oriented Advising and Coaching: Learning From Exemplary Programs

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

The Disabled Students’ Program invites you to develop your learning and understanding of equitable access to education through a disability justice lens. Learn more about how DSP collaborates with the campus community to remove barriers to education, and how to partner with the Disabled Students’ Program to create and promote an inclusive environment for students with disabilities.This is Part 4 of our four-part Equity-Oriented Advising and Coaching series....

Equity-Oriented Advising and Coaching

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Exploring opportunities to strengthen your advising and coaching practice? Join this session to learn more about the Equity-Oriented Advising and Coaching program (EOAC) experience and framework. Our program equips advising and student services staff with equity-oriented coaching practices to improve student and staff success, wellness, retention, and belonging. This fall, we’ll be...

Equity-Oriented Advising and Coaching: Creating a Brave Space for Understanding Student Goals

Monday, October 9, 2023 | 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Join our panel discussion where staff and faculty guests will delve into vital topics like listening to understand your students' realities and strengths, creating individualized plans, and fostering connection and a sense of belonging on campus. Explore innovative ways to create access, confront barriers with honesty, and ensure a warm, welcoming environment. These practices are foundational to the Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy (AEP) framework, which has been shown to increase student engagement...

Resisting Urgency: To Move from the Dream Space

Thursday, May 4, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

To Move from the Dream Space will invite participants to meditate on their dreaming practice as an antidote to a culture of urgency. Together in this workshop, we'll write to reflection prompts, engage meditation practices, and practice appreciation for the power and bigness of our dreams in the face of a culture that asks us to be too busy for them.

Presenter: Antmen Pimentel Mendoza, Acting Co-Director Multicultural Community Center

If you require an...

Resisting Urgency | Encore Presentation

Tuesday, January 17, 2023 | 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

In her widely circulated writings, Tema Okun names urgency as one characteristic of white supremacy culture. In this session, we’ll study her writings on urgency, draw connections between urgency and our experiences on campus and living in white supremacy and capitalism, and generate personal inventories of antidotes and hopes against urgency. Please arrive at this session with tools to write with (whether by hand or typewritten).

Presenter: Antmen Mendoza, Acting Co-...

Resisting Urgency | Focus on Rest Rituals

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

In this session on rest rituals, we’ll explore what it means to ‘practice’ with giving the body and mind a chance to connect with calm and make space to ‘be with’ ourselves in order to find ease. We’ll practice with in-the-moment techniques to soothe an overactive mind or body experience, explore opportunities for building rest into your daily routines, and discuss techniques to create and sustain an environment that supports restfulness and regeneration in service of holistic well-being.

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Building Advising Processes for Undergraduate Discovery

Thursday, March 23, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Many units on campus are actively involved in redesigning their undergraduate student support processes to foreground the ethos and opportunity pathways of project-based, discovery learning at UC Berkeley. This session brings together innovative advisors from three units that have been actively experimenting with how to build the best support possible for undergraduate discovery journeys.

Panelists:

Steve Nguyen, Director, Transfer Center Anna Hilke, Major Advisor, Physics...

Resisting Urgency: Focus on Community

Monday, March 6, 2023 | 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Presenter: Antmen Pimentel Mendoza, Acting Co-Director Multicultural Community Center

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please email advisingmatters@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event....