SJIIP hosts a number of general workshops for the UC Merced campus community to deepending their understanding of social justice topics and provide personal and organizational development. These workshops can be requested by your organizations by filling out this General Workshop Request Form.
- Aspiring Ally 101: Developed specifically for UC Merced, the Aspiring Ally 101 workshops provides a foundational understanding of allyship, raises awareness regarding the stages of allyship and offers hands on scenarios for supporting communities they are not members of in a 2-hour session.
- Bobcat Connect
- Identity Development: An introductory workshop which provides the opportunity for participants to examine their social identities, intersectionality and participants relationships with the community around them. This workshop is a 1-hour session.
- Gender Inclusion in the Workplace: The Gender Inclusion in the Workplace workshop focuses on raising awareness of transgender issues, provides information regarding how to support a transgender employee and provides a process should a grievance occur. This workshop is 3.5 hours in length.
- Gender Inclusive Language: The Gender Inclusive Language workshop breaks downs the importance of utilizing gender inclusive language to ensure we are affirming the lived experiences, backgrouns, and identities of individuals. This one (1) hour workshop provides an opportunity to examine how our binary gendered language impacts those who identify on the gender specturm and offers alternatives to utilizing exclusionary language.
- Privilege, Oppression & Power: The Privilege, Power, & Oppression workshop provides an introductory understanding of the interconnections of positionality and systemic institutions that provide unequitable access to power and resources. This workshop is a 3-hour session.
