ADVANCEGeo Workshops
Our work is based on a community model for professional development training that is especially designed for organizational leaders, faculty, staff, and students in STEMM workplace environments. A main goal of ADVANCEGeo is to produce material that can be adapted for different disciplines and to different training venues, including in-person and online, for academic departments, research labs, state agencies, non-profit organizations, professional societies, and for broader audiences at scientific conferences. Our facilitators are all trained STEMM professionals who have worked in a variety of different STEMM settings organizations.
Workshop Session Topics
Request a Workshop »ADVANCEGeo offers virtual and in-person workshops. We have developed workshop topics and modules on communication strategies, bullying, implicit bias, microaggressions, fieldwork safety, and developing codes of conduct that can be adapted for different audiences. We are also available to accommodate in-person training events for special events - please indicate if you would like to discuss this in your workshop submission.
ADVANCEGeo Bystander Intervention
This interactive workshop describes how academic practices and institutional structures allow for exclusionary behaviors to persist and provides strategies to reduce their harm on individuals and the collective. Participants will learn to identify how identity-based harassment, bullying, and microaggressions manifest in academic and research environments and practice multiple strategies to intervene individually and as a team using real-world scenarios. Learn more about bystander intervention sessions »
Communication Strategies: Preparing for Difficult Conversations
The goals of this workshop are to identify strategies to build and promote positive communication in the workplace. Participants will learn preventative and in the moment strategies for navigating difficult conversations. Additionally, participants will practice facilitation skills to be able to create and implement these in their workplace. These strategies can be utilized in a variety of workplace settings, such as departmental meetings, lab groups, fieldwork settings, and research teams. Learn more about communication strategies sessions »
Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace
This training will inform the learner of how microaggressions impact the workplace, interactions with our colleagues, and productivity. Participants will also learn multiple strategies to address microaggressions and will practice using them with real-world scenarios. Learn more about microaggression sessions »
Developing Effective Codes of Conduct
This workshop will provide resources to develop a workplace code of conduct that is proactive, preventative and promotes cultural change in office, laboratory, and field settings. Learn more about code of conduct sessions »
Implicit Biases: Why we have them and how they impact STEM
This workshop will invite participants to engage in a confidential, respectful environment in which to learn about the concept of implicit biases, the ways in which those biases impact STEM, and strategies to prevent possible negative impacts of these biases in the STEM workplace. Learn more about implicit bias impacts on STEM sessions »
Safety in The Field
For those who conduct research or training in field environments off-campus, this workshop will provide practices to evaluate fieldwork safety using an intersectional framework to best support diverse field-based teams. Participants will learn how their own and others' identities shape experiences in the field and create a risk assessment template to be used when planning for and assessing field experiences. Learn more about field safety sessions »