All Cornell students
90 minutes per workshop
See below!
The Einhorn Center, in collaboration with Campus Activities, is offering a series of workshops designed to support your leadership development and community-engaged learning journey at Cornell.
Facilitated by Einhorn Center staff, these workshops are for you if:
- Are participating (or plan to participate) in courses, internships, research projects or student organizations that require close collaboration with community partners
- Are ready to enhance self-awareness, develop cultural humility and build a foundation of critical reflection
- Want to learn to maximize your efforts to create positive change in the world
- Want to become leaders with a public purpose
By completing any of these workshops, you’ll not only enhance your skills and knowledge but also gain a competitive advantage for the Einhorn Center’s grants and awards. While acceptance is not guaranteed, your participation in these workshops will deepen your learning experience and enable you to make a meaningful impact in your community.
Tues., Feb. 25, 5–6 p.m.
Consider community-engaged learning (CEL) as “community service 2.0.” While both take place in and with communities, CEL projects and programs include preparation, learning from a community partner and critically reflecting on the service experience. These additional elements often lead to more positive impact for all involved. In this session, you will:
- Articulate core criteria for high-quality community-engaged learning
- Become familiar with models of community-engaged learning at Cornell
- Identify issues of public concern and who is addressing these
- Explore key practices for building relational trust with community partners
Presenter: Amy Somchanhmavong | ayk3@cornell.edu
Tues., Mar. 4, 5–6 p.m.
In this session, we will explore ways for you, as a student leader, to explore what it means to be a collective change agent. Learn how to spark meaningful impact by collaborating with communities and driving transformative change. Through this workshop, you will
- Describe how community-engaged leadership models are different from approaches to conventional leadership
- Identify at least two qualities of how community-engaged leaders cultivate leadership among their peers
- Develop a vision for engaged leadership that reflects how you would like to contribute to the world
Presenter: Amy Somchanhmavong | ayk3@cornell.edu
Wed., Oct. 9, 5–6:30 p.m.
160 Mann Library
What, So What and Now What? It’s a catchy reflection framework that’s easy to remember, but how can we utilize this framework to support you as a leader in moving from simple reflection to deeper, more complex and challenging forms of critical reflection and dialogue? This session will explore critical reflection models to both challenge and inspire you and your team to move from surface-level reflections into deeper insights on how to learn from and work with partners to address the sources and solutions to persistent community problems. Through this workshop, you will:
- Describe how critical reflection differs from simple reflection
- Identify critical reflection activities you can use with your groups before, during and after service
- Practice critical reflection and dialogue using tools and key facilitation techniques
Wed., Oct. 16, 5–6:30 p.m.
160 Mann Library
Get ready for an interactive reflective session where you will engage with dynamic tools and activities that will help you reflect on three core dimensions of cultural humility. We’ll explore various ways for you to cultivate cultural humility including skill-building exercises for team-building, effective communication across differences and techniques for adapting to diverse community contexts. Through this workshop, you will:
- Describe and explain three core dimensions of cultural humility
- Develop cultural self-awareness and explore how cultural norms and rituals might shape your interactions with others and communities you work with
- Explore together what it means to create a thriving team
- Enact techniques in cultural humility with peers and partners
Wed., Oct. 23, 5–6:30 p.m.
160 Mann Library
Relationships are at the core of serving communities. How is building a community partnership similar to building a healthy relationship? By combining our diverse perspectives and skills, Cornell-based faculty, staff and students, with community members, can address public issues and help build a more sustainable, just and collaborative future. In this workshop you will:
- Articulate the importance of engaging communities in an ethical manner
- Explore stakeholder-mapping exercises and develop asset-based models for community engagement
- Evaluate risk as an important dimension to serving the public good
- Nurture cultures of trust and reciprocity in partnership
Wed., Oct. 30, 5–6:30 p.m.
160 Mann Library
In this session, we will explore ways for you, as a student leader, to explore what it means to be a collective change agent. Learn how to spark meaningful impact by collaborating with communities and driving transformative change. Through this workshop, you will
- Describe how community-engaged leadership models are different from approaches to conventional leadership
- Identify at least two qualities of how community-engaged leaders cultivate leadership among their peers
- Develop a vision for engaged leadership that reflects how you would like to contribute to the world