Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting
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Organizations, institutions, and individuals are at their best when gratitude, mindfulness, positivity, and strengths are valued. A special interest group (SIG) is interested in meeting to explore ways to create a more positive, transformative, hopeful, and empowered environment for all SSW community members - students, faculty, and staff. We are interested in meeting with like-minded individuals to work toward this goal!
Are you interested in getting involved in the SSW?
Do you enjoy talking about the culture, climate, and narratives of the spaces you find yourself in?
Do you appreciate strengths-based projects, initiatives, and environments?
Do you wish to create intentional learning spaces?
Are you interested in strengthening community within the SSW?
Join this new special interest group at the U-M SSW! This SIG was formed in response to students, faculty, and staff voicing vibrant ideas for making the SSW a more strengths-based, resilient, compassionate, and connected space. A place where we focus on deficits AND strengths; challenging realities AND hope; ideas AND action.
Our first meeting will be held Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 12-1pm in the SSWB room B780. Lunch will be provided! Please RSVP so that we may have an accurate count for lunch.
The agenda is as follows:
12-12:10pm: Enjoy lunch & conversation
12:10pm-12:45pm: Discuss the purpose of the SIG
- Why?
- Supported by OSS and ADEP
- Encouraging strengths-based community
- Host events
- Create workshops
- Develop initiatives
- This is your group! What do you think?
12:45pm-12:55pm: Brainstorm a name for the group
12:55-1pm: Discuss Next Steps
- Outreach/invite fellow students, faculty, and staff
- Bring ideas for strengths-based events, workshops, and initiatives to or next meeting (i.e. mindfulness workshops, student owned and curated blog, Little Free Library, Facilitation Handbook for SSW students and faculty, etc.)
- Next meeting is…
Wishing you the best life has to offer,
Katie Gibson & Tim Colenback
This SIG is co-sponsored by the Office of Student Services, the Office of the Associate Dean for Educational Programs, and the Leadership in Community Benefit Organizations program.