Project Name
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization Speaker Series
Team Members
Leor Elizur
Alejandra Botia
Project Summary
The Counselling Psychology Social Justice Committee created a survey to understand students’ experiences of social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion within the department, and to identify areas of improvement for the committee to address. Many students expressed a desire to learn about social justice in more depth than many courses currently offer, and noted that a speaker series would provide an opportunity to do this. In response, the Counselling Psychology Social Justice Committee will be hosting a speaker series, including topics such as:
- Indigenous ways of knowing and sharing,
- Statistical representation of identity demographics,
- Inclusive practices when working with clients of diverse gender identities,
- Counselling with refugee populations,
- The history of psychology and the impact of colonialism on current psychological perspectives and practices,
- The evolution of social justice work in counselling,
- Advocacy practices,
- Knowledge dissemination and translation of social justice research,
- White racism
The speaker series will be open to attendance by any Faculty of Education students who are interested in learning about a topic, and can benefit all Faculty of Education students by introducing them to ideas they may have not had an opportunity to learn about in a classroom setting.
