Working well in challenging times

The COVID-19 syndemic added more stress, fear, uncertainty, and labor to already taxed faculty, staff, and administrators. Questions abound: How will I get any work done in this environment? How do I balance competing professional, personal, and community demands? How can I manage all that is in front of me when I'm feeling emotionally depleted?​

This workshop takes up these questions by providing a framework for healthy coping and decision making in these challenging times. Using this framework, participants are guided in the development of a personalized plan they can immediately implement for better wellness, productivity, and balance.

Sustaining Ourselves (exclusively for women of color)

Isolation, service overload, and experiences of gendered-racism are just some of the impediments to advancement and optimal health women of color (WOC) face in academe.

 To address these challenges, the WOC in this workshop:

• Learn and practice culturally sensitive techniques that enhance health, increase productivity, and improve work-life harmony.
• Explore healthy ways to deal with experiences of discrimination and tokenism.
• ​​Foster connections with other women of color.