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Stay tuned for more info about upcoming events! Upcoming Events: ISMS Conference 2011: Making it Real: Promoting Conversations about Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace (June 6, 2011) Past Events: ISMS Conference 2010: Leading From Where You Are - Unraveling Privilege, Power and Difference for Organizational Change (October 7-8, 2010) ISMS Conference 2008: Building Inclusive and Multi-Culturally Competent Health Organizations: A Healing Approach to Addressing the Isms ISMS Conference 2006: Privilege, Bias, and Oppression: Addressing Barriers to Eliminating Health Disparities Within Health Organizations
2010 Isms Conference (October 7-8, 2010): Leading From Where You Are: Unraveling Privilege, Power and Difference for Organizational Change - A Conference for Cultural Competence & Health Equity Champions in Health Organizations This conference will focus on issues of privilege & oppression, and how public health/healthcare professionals who are working to build cultural competence and address health inequities, can bring our social justice values to the workplace. The first day will focus on improving our understanding of how privilege works, how we each experience privilege at individual and organizational levels, and how we can use this understanding to practice our social justice values more successfully in our organizations. The second day focuses on how we can “lead from where we are” to advocate for change in our organizations. The conference includes presentations, video, pair, small, and large group discussion as well as spoken word, drumming, arts, and movement exercises. We hope the overall conference experience will support us as leaders in increasing the multi-cultural competence of our organizations and in our work to bring about health equity in our communities. "Isms" Collaborative: "Don't Fence Me In" Conference March 18, 2010 | 8:30am-5:00pm | Samuel Merritt University Understanding the landscape of gender/sexual/racial/cultural identities, the oppressive nature of labels and how we can practice inclusion with clients, colleagues and communities of multiple identities. |
