Understanding Culture, Understanding People

check-in 8:30-9:00 a.m.
Thursday, April 21, 2005
UMM Science Building
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

TOPIC
Community and Diversity are profoundly interrelated concepts. Communities large and small across the United States and Minnesota are changing rapidly, making our nation and our state 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 that prevent us from creating authentic relationships across differences.

OBJECTIVES
In this session participants will:
« 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 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 twenty-nine years. Mr. Moreno is a widely-recognized speaker and trainer on topics related to diversity, multiculturalism, and community building.

COST
$70 includes 6.0 CEUs from the Minnesota Board
of Social Work, refreshments and lunch

PARKING
You may park in the West Parking Lot, located on the west side of the campus. Follow the orange signs to the Science Building.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
• $70 includes 6.0 CEUs from the Minnesota Board of Social Work, refreshments and lunch

• If you need special accommodations, please notify us in advance

• Registration Deadline: Monday, April 11, 2005

• For more registration information, contact Jean Sasek, 320.589.6450 or 800.842.0030, sasekj@morris.umn.edu

• Enrollment for this workshop is limited, please register early

• Download a brochure using Acrobat Reader, brochure 1-13-05.pdf

For more information on Human Services Programming at UMM:
Robi Bowman, LSW, Human Services Outreach Coordinator
Continuing Education, UMM
320.589.6450 or 800.842.0030
bowma122@morris.umn.edu