2020 Sessions
Community issues
Session Titles:
Human Trafficking (Slavery/Unpaid Labor)
Immigration and separation of families
Removing Toxic Relationships
Can you feel me? Creating Empathy to become a better leader and communicator
Race swapping in comics and entertainment
Dance to Heal
self love
Session Titles:
Body positivity
Understanding Thy Self
I want to Dance With Somebody!
Clapback @ microaggression
Finding Self Love
Embracing the Skin I’m In
Building Towards Unity
Session Titles:
Advocacy and Intervention
What's Good, Man? In Search of Healthy Masculinity
The Abridged Social Justice Dictionary
“Label Activity” (stereotypes and social treatment)
Youth: Leaders of TODAY, Not Tomorrow
Student LGBTQ + Queers & Allies
Community Issues
Session Title: Human Trafficking (Slavery/Unpaid Labor)
Session Description: Our goal for this session is to inform students, staff, and our community about the dangers of human trafficking and how to avoid it. We hope you walk away feeling more educated and safe :)
Session Presenter(s): From left to right) Kadra Isse, Hakimo Gabow, and Micraj
Session Title: Immigration and separation of families
Session Description: Participants will learn about current immigration issues and family separation through hands-on learning activities and personal stories.
Session Presenter: From left to right) Angelina Losoya & Jessica Sosa
Session Title: Removing toxic relationships
Session Description: What is a toxic relationship? How do you know when you’re in a toxic relationship and how do you handle it? During this session we will discuss upon the meaning of toxic relationship whether that’s family, friends or significant other, etc. Finding self worth, ways to end a toxic relationship, positive self affirmation. Feel free to come and reach out for help, you are not alone!
Session Presenter: Valerie Yang
SESSION TITLE: RACE SWAPPING IN COMICS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Session Description: Does the the comics and entertainment industry REALLY care about racial representation in the media it creates? In my session I will give examples and lead discussions around the belief that these media companies are only interested in making money off of minorities and trends.
Session Presenter: Niko Halll
Session Title: Can you feel me? Creating Empathy to become a better leader and communicator
Session Description: Empathy is the ability to understand and share feelings of another. Empathy can be developed and strengthened and in the process you can get more done with your teams and have productive and clear communications with others. In this breakout session you will learn how empathy can help you become a better leader and communicator. We will be using improvisation games and exercises to build our relating skills and have some good tools that you can take away and start being an empathetic leader today!
Presenter(s): Eric Colchin + Govie Leaders
SESSION TITLE: DANCE TO HEAL
Session Description: This workshop will use dance as a way to further connect with ourselves and each other in community with one another. Through improvisational exercises, writing, and reflection, we will explore our personal stories through movement. Likewise, drawing on different dance forms such as Umfundalai, a contemporary African dance technique, we will utilize dance to rediscover ourselves.
Session Presenter: Leanna Browne
Self Love
SESSION TITLE: BODY POSITIVITY
Session Description: Why do we still body-shame one another even though there are plenty of cultural messages about the impact of these behaviors? Participants will discuss statistics, impacts, and experiences of body-shaming to gain a better understanding of how it works and why we need to stop doing it.
Session Presenter: Erin Tetter, Christian, Keller, Precious Yang, Lilly Lopez
SESSION TITLE: UNDERSTANDING THY SELF
Session Description: In this workshop, students will learn about the connection between our mind, body, and spirit. I will teach about the seven chakras, an Eastern view of the body’s energy system, and students will be invited to explore how their identity is influenced, inspired, or compromised by their families, friends, and communities they live in. The aim of this workshop is to instill the value of developing personal power and love for the self and the objective is to provide self-care guide that will foster personal growth. This workshop will be a combination of lecture, free-writing, and voluntary group sharing.
Session Presenter: Takawi Peters
SESSION TITLE: I WANT TO DANCE WITH SOMEBODY!
Session Description: Ready dance and have some fun? Join me for AfroKaribe Dance Fit! This an amazing low-intensity and high-intensity interval-style, calorie-burning, total body dance fitness party. AfroKaribe Dance Fit is for all levels and no dance experience needed. Learn moves to Afrobeats, Caribbean and World rhythms. It's way too much fun to be a work out!
Session Presenter: Val I am Zumba
SESION TITLE: CLAPBACK @ MICROAGGRESSION
Session Description:
The Clapback Workshop is a skill-building workshops designed to empower marginalized peoples’ voices to combat microaggressions.
The artistic goals for the workshops are:
1. To improve participants’ abilities to create and participate in a performance/theatrical piece to tell their story. We believe that everyone is capable of being creative and artistic. Our job is to pro
vide the tools, resources, community, and encouragement for participants to heighten their skills.
2. To help participants increase their knowledge or gain a better understanding of performing comedy and improvised work.
3. To help participants gain a better understanding of “microaggressions” and how to use performance art to address them.
Session Presenter(s):
SESSION TITLE: FINDING SELF LOVE
Session Description: Our goal of this session is to share and learn with others different ways how to find our self love. We plan to do this through a discussion based session.
Session Presenter(s): Savior Johnson, Chindarat Thao, Aleena Thor
SESSION TITLE: EMBRACING THE SKIN I’M IN
Session Description: Join the leaders of unchained for an interactive session focused on self and community healing. We will use art to create a space for claiming our stories. We look forward to sharing with you.
Session Presenter(s): Cierra Carter, Francheska Cordero
Building Towards Unity
SESSION TITLE: ADVOCACY AND INTERVENTION
Session Description: America is changing. As people of multiple, intersecting identities we are faced with a special challenge: rising up against hate. This workshop is for those who want to advocate for themselves and build power against oppression, but want to take the first step in understanding their own place and their "why". Attendees will explore their own stories, their identities, and will use these newfound understandings to find their places in movements. We will also learn how to intervene in situations of injustice using bystander intervention techniques.
Session Presenter(s): Asma Mohammed
SESSION TITLE: WHAT’S GOOD, MAN? IN SEARCH OF HEALTHY MASCULINITY
Session Description: What does it mean for men to take a more active role in the struggle for gender equity? What kind of work can we do on our own to unlearn some of the harmful ideas about manhood that are spread by media, peers, and beyond, and ultimately become better allies? Join Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre and Tony the Scribe, the hosts of the podcast, "What's Good, Man?" for an interactive discussion and resource-share about these questions and more.
Session Presenter: Top (Guante) Tony the scribe (Bottom)
SESSION TITLE: THE ABRIDGED SOCIAL JUSTICE DICTIONARY
Session Description: Center compassion and community while developing a common language to identify and deconstruct injustice. Through a reflective round table of conversation and Hip Hop, we’ll develop a context for better understanding power, oppression, and coalition building.
Session Presenter: SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE
SESSION TITLE: “LABEL ACTIVITY” (STEREOTYPES AND SOCIAL TREATMENT)
SESSION TITLE: YOUTH: LEADER OF TODAY, NOT TOMORROW
Session Description: A hands-on activity for participants to experience and witness the impact of different assumptions and judgements society leads us to make about the people around us and ourselves.
Presenter: Lori Vang
Session Description: Have you heard 'youth are the leaders of tomorrow'? Do you cringe because you know that you are a leader today?! Join us for this highly interactive workshop as we look at the historic change young people have made in the past 60 years and celebrate the change you are making in your community and school today. We will also think about what makes the phrase 'leaders of tomorrow' problematic and often puts a divide between adults and youth. Together we will push against this negative narrative and think about how adults and youth can be in leadership together.
Presenter: Donte Curtis