Professional Development Overview

Our professional development workshops can address the following topics and can be tailored for any modality (online, in-person, hybrid), any engagement level (active learning, seminar-style, or presentation) or audience (undergraduate, graduate, faculty, staff, professional societies, multi-institutional, etc.):

Workshop Topics

  • Trauma-informed teaching and pedagogy
  • Integrative Professional Framework (IPF)
    • Advising
    • Teaching
    • Mentoring
    • Leadership
    • Colleagueship
  • Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research Mentoring
  • Undergraduate and Graduate Student Mentoring Up
  • Postdoc Career Pathways Development
  • Wellness and Rest Pedagogy
  • Embodied learning
  • Active Learning
  • Dialogic Process
  • Communication and Active Listening
  • Plain Language for Better Communication
  • Transparency in Learning and Teaching
  • Overcoming Triggers in Teaching, Facilitation, Mentoring, Advising
  • Best Practices in Teaching
  • Collaborative / Group / Collective Dynamics
  • Team / Group Leadership
  • Team Retreats (to advance alignment of values and path forward to achieving outcomes)
  • Liberating Structures™ for Group Engagement
    • With modifications to each topic for inclusivity, cultural awareness, etc.

Change Agent Professional Development

  • Use of the IPF to build Agency /Agentic Awareness and Capacity to Transfer Knowledge and Practices
  • Relational Connection Mapping
  • Sphere of Influence
  • Boundary Spanning
  • Force Field Analysis
  • Four Frames of Organizations (Bolman & Deal)
  • Organizational Change & Learning
  • Leadership Development
  • Analysis of Turnover and Succession Planning
  • … and more!

Upcoming Workshops

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The Institute is an extension of the former National Change Initiative of the NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance.

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