EDI: A Social Justice Marathon

EDI: A Social Justice Marathon

When a person signs for a marathon they don’t automatically become someone capable of running or wheeling a marathon. Rather, they develop a training program purposely intended to help them build the skills and practices required to successfully complete the marathon they registered for months in advance. Equity, diversity, and inclusion work is no different. Like a marathon, it requires the same intentionality, the same stamina, and the same commitment to training.

Through this 2-part workshop series, participants will be introduced to a number of skills and practices required to participate in the ongoing marathon of social justice. More specifically, participants will learn how to support shared experiences of dignity by focusing on relationship-building and communication with the overall goal of intervening in systems that reduce access and opportunity.

Intended to move beyond content-based EDI training, this workshop is meant for individuals who have started or are strongly interested in doing this work within their organizations and are open to recognizing there may be a disconnect between their good intentions and the ways those intentions may be experienced by folks from historically excluded (or equity-denied) groups.

Presenter:

Nathan Viktor Fawaz - PhD Candidate, Faculty of Kinesiology Sport and Recreation, University of Alberta

Nathan Viktor Fawaz (they/them) is working on a PhD in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta. Nathan is especially curious about ways we can think about being together that are affirming, equitable, and non-exiling. Their writing, speaking, artwork, and workshops all ask questions about how people can be together with dignity. Nathan’s work is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Time Commitment:

The workshop consists of two 3-hour sessions.

• The first session will take place on Thursday, November 16 from 9 am - 12 pm MST.
• The second session will take place on Thursday, November 30 from 9 am - 12 pm MST.
• Attendance at the first session will be required to participate in or have access to the content of the second session.
• Registration Closes November 9, 2023

Participants in this workshop will have the option for further asynchronous engagement through partnership in a research opportunity, however participation in research is not required to attend the live workshops, nor to have access to stream the workshop videos on a private link.

Cost:

This workshop is FREE for participants thanks to the financial and in-kind contributions of the InMotion Network, the Just Movements Research Lab at the University of Alberta, and Mitacs.

Technological requirements:

These workshops will take place digitally, over zoom, and will require stable internet access as well as a computer capable of running live streaming video. After the workshop, videos and resources will be hosted on the InMotion Network’s website.

If your individual or community setting does not have access to these technological requirements, please contact info@inmotiontework.org or 780-644-5613 so that we may co-develop a solution that will best meet your needs with the resources we have available.

Access considerations:

The workshops will be recorded with live AI captioning and transcription. Edited videos with corrected transcripts will be available to registered participants shortly after the event. ASL interpretation will be added to the videos as soon as possible.

Participants are strongly encouraged to do whatever is necessary to support full and meaningful participation in the workshops. This may mean: camera-on or camera-off; participation in most comfortable body positions and clothes; participation in the presence of children, pets, and/or other relationships of care responsibility; participation while eating or drinking; participation while stretching or engaging in a movement practice; participation while feeling ‘together or available or present’; participation while feeling ‘scattered or nervous or impossible’.

In short: show up as you are and be in the space as you need to be.

Registration Closes November 9, 2023