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Retreat Programs
Session I: 10:00AM -10:50AM
Presented by: Gary Santos Mendoza, Director, Intercultural Resource Center
As a Rutgers University-Newark community, diversity and social justice work is embedded into our campus community. Designing Social Justice Education Workshops (Sharp, 2020) will provide participants who develop and facilitate social justice education workshops and structured conversations with a framework to use at RU-N, including reflections on Social Justice work.
Presented by: Yaruby Petit-Frere, Director, Office of International Student & Scholar Services
This interactive workshop will ask staff to map out ways that we are supporting our students to create new traditions within their student groups and how we can encourage "bridging" collaborations with different groups and demographics.
Session II 11:00AM -11:50AM
Presented by: Hend El Buri, Director, pantryRUN
What does Health and Wellness look like at Rutgers University-Newark, and how do we work towards being a Health Promoting Campus? How can each office within the Division be health promoting?
Presented by: Wenylla Reid, Associate Director of Community Engagement, Career Development Services
This interactive workshop will offer participants guidelines on how to support students in reviewing whether an opportunity is in an internship. It will also provide attendees the tools to craft opportunities to ensure they meet the criteria for an experience to be defined as an internship.
Session III 1:00PM -1:50PM
Presented by: Nicholas Geremia, Director, New Student & Family Programs
Rutgers-Newark is home to some of the hardest working folks in Higher Education. However, many new professionals struggle to manage time and communicate needs in a meaningful and healthy way. This session, focused on new professionals, but open to all, centers on providing strategies around project management and communication best practices.
Presented by: Keith Boggs, Area Coordinator, Housing & Residence Life
The Importance of Self Care in the Workplace. Strategies -- both at work and outside of work -- that can help individuals stay rested and energized in regards to working. Learn how to create an environment that emphasizes practicing self-care and how that can help others, that you work with or supervise, stay productive as well.
Presented by: Ivy Keen, Program Coordinator, New Student & Family Programs
We will be presenting on how identity influences leadership and the journey of growing into being a leader who fully embraces themself. The purpose of this presentation is to show that leadership can take many forms and that all forms are equally important. We want to stay away from labels like introvert and extrovert in order to maintain that being a leader runs on a spectrum and that leadership is not limited by one’s identity. We will be exploring topics such as self-awareness, identifying potential leaders without labeling, and our own identity journeys.
Session IV 2:00PM -2:50PM
Presented by: Dr. Vasudev Dixit, Director, Counseling Center
Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. This session will focus on how you the individual can practice these different strategies on a daily basis.
Presented by: Office of International Student & Scholar Services
Join us for a fun trivia-like a jeopardy game on international and intercultural world facts.
