The Way Forward: Making the 'Invisible' Visible

Title: The Way Forward: Making the 'Invisible' Visible. Microaggressive Impacts on Education and Training: Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race in the Postsecondary Sector in Canada.

Presenter: Dr. Derald Wing Sue, PhD

Professor of Psychology and Education, Department of Counselling and Clinical Psychology, Columbia University

Presentation Objectives:

  1. Help administrators, faculty, staff and students to define and describe the manifestation, dynamics and impact of microaggressions;
  2. Learn and develop appropriate intervention strategies at the individual, institutional and societal levels that will prevent or diminish the incidences and negative impact of microaggressions; and
  3. Explore how one’s own biases, prejudices, and assumptions about human behavior may make one complicit in allowing microaggressions to thrive.

To register: hrs.humber.ca/register

Online registration instructions, attached.