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Building Community in the Midst of Diversity:
Contact, Culture, Complexity, and Conflict

CANCELLED

check-in 8:30-9:00 a.m.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Best Northland Prairie Inn, Morris
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Topic
Community and Diversity are profoundly interrelated concepts. Communities large and small across Minnesota as well as the U.S. are changing rapidly, making our state and our nation a richer mosaic of races, ages, nationalities, backgrounds, cultures, incomes, abilities, lifestyles, beliefs, and orientations. In fact, however one defines diversity, the United States is today the most diverse nation in the history of the world. All of this transformation is having a dramatic impact on the very nature of our communities, congregations, neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces. This session will explore the unique intersection of diversity and community as well as highlight the multiple ways in which we dehumanize each other and consequently prevent us from creating authentic and equitable relationships across our differences.

Objectives
• Explore the nature as well as the conceptual frameworks behind community and diversity.

• Examine a model for building community in the midst of diversity.

• Consider how dynamics of domination and subordination as well as internalized oppression and internalized superiority may be the single most important factors in our ability or inability to create a sense of authentic community with one another.

• Focus on building communities and organizations free from dominance and exploitation.

Presenter

Juan C. Moreno is presently the Diversity and Inclusion Specialist with the University of Minnesota Extension Service. Previously he served as Director of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity as well as Interim Dean of Students at Metropolitan State University in the Twin Cities. He is also the former Director and founder of the Diversity Institute at the University of Minnesota. Mr. Moreno has spent his entire professional career in the field of multicultural education, training, advocacy, compliance, and research and has served in various administrative posts at the University of Minnesota and at Metropolitan State University over the past thirty years. He is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions for his work in the fields of human rights and social justice, including the University of Minnesota’s Josie R. Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award as well as the National Extension Diversity Award presented by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). Mr. Moreno is a widely-recognized teacher, speaker, and trainer on topics related to diversity, multiculturalism, and community building and also serves as Honorary Consul of Ecuador for the State of Minnesota.

Juan Moreno

Cost
$80 includes 6.0 CEUs from the Minnesota Board of Social Work, lunch and refreshments

Registration Information
Register online:
http://www.morris.umn.edu/cerp/conferences/human_services/form.html
(mail your check to the address below)

Download the registration form, complete it and mail or fax it to:

Continuing Education, Regional Programs and Summer Session
225 Community Services Building
600 E. 4th St.
Morris, MN 56267

Registration Deadline:
Monday, April 9

If you need special accommodations, please contact us.

For more registration information, contact:
Jean Sasek - Continuing Education, UMM
320.589.6450 or 800.842.0030, sasekj@morris.umn.edu

For more information on Human Services Programming at UMM:
Karen Ellis - Continuing Education, UMM
320.589.6463 or 800.842.0030, elliskj@morris.umn.edu

Building Community in the Midst of Diversity: Contact, Culture, Complexity, and Conflict

Building Community in the Midst of Diversity:
Contact, Culture, Complexity, and Conflict