Programming & Advocacy
Programming
The Women’s Resource Center coordinates and co-sponsors several large-scale speakers and panel discussions each year. It also offers educational programming in settings such as: classrooms, residence halls, and student organizations/clubs. The staff at the WRC is willing to work with you to create the program that will best meet your needs.
Please visit our events page for more info on current programming and events
Advocacy
College can be a difficult period in your life. It is not uncommon to experience a wide variety of emotions both positive and negative. The Women’s Resource Center offers a place and people who are willing and able to give you the support that you need to deal with many of the issues facing women today. Call or stop by the WRC when you feel the need to vent, cry, laugh, explode, or share pieces of yourself.
Empowerment Group - Call x4171 to sign up
Have you ever wished you could explore the topic of body image more? Or how to have a positive relationship? Come join us for a six-part series, which will work in a group format and utilize creative expression and positive affirmation in our shared inquiry of a variety of topics related to the concept of self.
Snacks provided.
Writing To Heal - Call x4171 to sign up
This is a workshop that will prove to be rejuvenating and empowering to writers and non-writers. Through guided exercises and prompts, this workshop will provide you with a safe environment to reflect on disempowering life events that you experienced either directly or as a secondary survivor. It will provide a create means and backdrop for you to empower yourself, help you overcome feelings of shame and integrate the struggles you have faced into your life as part of who you are.
Jan Term Offerings
Jan term Multiple Paths to Empowerment Quarter Credit & Empowering Offerings
WRC’s Jan-Term Philosophy
In the spirit of embracing multiple perspectives, The Women’s Resource Center is proud to present multiple paths to empowerment this Jan-term, both in and outside the classroom. We are proud to offer V-Day: Until the Violence Ends, inspired by Playwright & humanitarian Eve Ensler’s play ‘The Vagina Monologues’ intended to raise awareness around the global issue of violence against women, children and men throughout the world. While the play proves to be empowering for the women and men involved with its production year-after-year by giving them a voice and a forum for unity, not all students participate. To make sure that we are giving every student access to empowerment in the means she/he feels most safe and comfortable, we are offering two additional opportunities: a co-ed quarter credit class called “Tapping into the Soul for Change” intended to give students the tools necessary to use their own life experience as a tool for connecting with others on an authentic level and inspiring change in a non-threatening and inclusive manner; and a co-curricular series in collaboration with Leadership Expert Maura Wolf and the foundation called Six Billion Paths to Peace.
Against the Grain: Writing/Tapping into the Soul for Change
Instructor: Sharon K. Sobotta, M.S.
Everyone has a story to share, a lesson to teach and the capacity to inspire others with their own life experiences. We often take up social causes and master the art of connecting with others who look and feel the same that we do, but miss out on the opportunity to connect with those whose life experience and perspective is vastly different than ours. In this class, you will learn how to reach beyond the “choir” and make your story or the issue that you are most passionate about, accessible to the masses. We will use our own life experiences as the means to the end of inspiring others and inspiring change in the world we live in, both on a global and on a local level. We will learn how to transform a powerful life event into a monologue that is non-threatening, open, honest and inspirational.
Three Part Jan Term Leadership Series
Six Billion Paths to Peace & Maura Wolf (Three part: Against the Grain Leadership series)
If you don’t have room in your class schedule for one of the WRC’s courses, be sure to tap into our three-part workshop series.
Authentic Leadership
Learn how you can implement the five-core Lasallian principles into your life so that you can lead through faith, quality education, concern for social justice and respect for all persons while providing the conditions for a fully-inclusive community. This workshop will help you introspect on the source of your own ideologies and principles, while giving you the tools to make a difference in the world and maintaining your authentic self.
Nourishing Your Mind, Body & Soul: Your Path to Peace
As individuals who are impassioned about helping and serving others, we sometimes forget to pay adequate attention to our own needs—our classes, our grades, our future goals, our relationships and our identities. This can leave us feeling depleted and disempowered. This workshop will show you how to maintain self-respect and nourish all aspects of your identity so that you can share your talents and gifts with the world in an authentic, empowered and respected manner.
Room For All of us
This multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-ideological and multi-role panel of women will share their vastly different life experiences and choices around such topics as: leadership, families, balance work and more. In you choose to see the world through a black and white lens, this panel may not be for you. However, if you are open to the process of learning and experiencing the multiple realities, experiences and complexities affecting women within our society, you are bound to leave this session feeling refreshed, energized and hopeful about the great depths and possibilities of life.
