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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 1, 2023 8:41:41 PM<br>
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<b>Cc:</b> Neal, Vanessa <VNeal@clark.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DEOC] NWREC 2024 Call for Proposals - proposal tips and reminders</font>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black; font-weight:normal">Please consider putting in a proposal for the upcoming NWREC conference, happening February 21-23, 2024. Please also forward to your teams, departments, and folx in other Commissions.
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Did you get our previous email <a href="https://form.asana.com/?k=9GrfcYqqHogLGRKRRObGEA&d=39101053554055" target="_blank">calling for proposals</a> for the NWREC/AREDI 2024 conference? Can you believe we’ve already received
several proposals? We think you’d be great, and we’d really love to hear your ideas on presentations!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This is our fifth year of NWREC, and our second AREDI conference. Collectively, we’ve attracted nearly 400 participants each year, and we know that the thing that makes both NWREC and AREDI successful is YOU! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We’re so excited to hear your ideas for presentations that we thought we’d share some suggestions from previous participants on how to make your proposals (and sessions) pop:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Putting ideas into practice</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- Topics with a strong action component: Not just theory, but some tangible calls to action or action steps participants can take after leaving your session.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- How to stay engaged in equity work: Let’s face it, this work is haaarrrdddd. Participants want to know how to stay engaged, stay active, and take care of themselves while doing this work.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- Practical and Applicable tools: Do you have an equity lens check list? A meditative strategy? A way to disrupt microaggressions in the moment? We’d love to hear them!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- A session that allows for people – particularly white people – to practice disrupting problematic situations and behaviors.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- A session that allows people of color and culture to come together collectively to engage in joy, rest, meditation or any other supportive practice to nurture our communities</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">More time for processing material and information</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- When crafting your proposal, consider ways to help your participants re-center emotionally before ending your session.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- Consider offering time during the first few minutes of your session to allow participants to collect items that might help them ground themselves if difficult emotions come up during your session. Take time to ground
participants before and after the heavy material, and offer them tools to re-center or ground themselves during the session as necessary.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- Make sure your material is digestible – the conference is an intense few days of learning and can be both intellectually and emotionally challenging. While we encourage you to present rigorous material, we also encourage
you to find balance between high-level learning and emotionally supportive material.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Want to use breakout rooms?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- If you use breakout rooms in your session, consider giving participants more time than you might initially consider. It takes time (especially in virtual land) to build trust and rapport in a breakout room and to engage
in deep, meaningful conversation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- Give clear guidance on the purpose or function of the breakout room.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">- Be mindful, whenever possible, of giving people of color and culture opportunity to connect with each other, and for white folks to talk to other white folks. Sometimes, depending on the session, it might be worthwhile
to have people self-select into breakout rooms based on their own identities</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We hope these suggestions are helpful in crafting your presentation proposal. We really are very excited to see what sessions are proposed this year and can’t wait to see you all in February! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">More information is available at our <a href="https://www.clark.edu/campus-life/student-support/diversity-and-equity/equity-conference/" target="_blank">NWREC website</a>. It includes timelines, an FAQ, and further recommendations.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">As always, please let us know if you have any questions – our team is here to help at <a href="mailto:nwrec@clark.edu" target="_blank">nwrec@clark.edu</a>!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Good luck,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">NWREC Planning Team</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:#201F1E; background:white">Vanessa C.K. Neal</span></b><b><span style="color:black"> (</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:#201F1E">she/her)</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:#201F1E"></span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:#201F1E">Vice President of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion/</span></p>
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