Peer Programs training will take place Friday, September 16 and Saturday, September 17. Please meet at Hebb Theatre on both days. If you have any questions about training, please speak to your program advisor.
Please review the following session descriptions before making your choices on the registration form. Each session lists the indended audience: New = New members of UBC Peer Programs; Returning = Members returning for a second year or more; All = New or Returning members. Registration deadline is Wednesday, September 14 at 11:59 PM.
Concurrent Workshop #1
Active Listening: Active listening skills are a cornerstone for all UBC Peer Programs. Learn how SOLER can help you be a better listener and how and when to make referrals for students in need. (Intended audience: New)
Branding Basics: Feeling creative? Need to make a big impact? Find out how effective branding strategies can help you to reach your targeted audience. Learn how CLF (Common Look and Feel), logos, and online initiatives can be combined to give your program a boost! (Intended audience: All)
Diversity 1: This workshop is designed to promote awareness of the stereotypes and conscious and unconscious biases that exist around diversity and difference in our society. By combining two diversity tools the facilitators will work with students to provide a creative and fun way to begin to define their own cultural identity. (Intended audience: New)
Facilitating Effective Meetings: Make the most of your meeting time this year. In this session, we will discuss: how to prepare and wrap-up meetings with your volunteers, how to lead effective brainstorming, debrief, and update meetings and how to make your meetings engaging and effective. (Intended audience: Returning)
Mentorship: As a returning peer leader, you have an opportunity to positively influence the success of new members in your program. In this workshop, you will discuss what makes an effective mentor, and how to give effective feedback to your peers to encourage their success. (Intended audience: Returning)
Transforming Conflict: Do you find it difficult to communicate when there is conflict? Want to enhance your self-awareness in conflict situations and preserve important relationships? Come explore conflict within the practice of leadership, as we apply strategies to help you manage and re-frame it effectively! (Intended audience: Returning)
Peer Coaching: How to develop rapport, learn to ask focusing questions, brainstorm resources and possibilities and collaboratively develop an action plan. (Intended audience: New)
Presentation Skills: Whether it is a group of 5 or 500 come and discuss different presentation techniques and skills. No previous presentation skills required. (Intended audience: All)
Balancing Your Life: Managing Your Time and Health: Life as a student can be demanding; when you add extra responsibilities to your plate, managing your time can sometimes be a challenge. This workshop provides the necessary skills to help you balance the many areas of your health and wellbeing, with how-to’s for managing your your time and your health as a student leader. (Intended audience: All)
Concurrent Workshop #2
UBC: A great PLACE with PROMISE (Intro to the UBC Strategic Plan): Place and Promise is the strategic plan of The University of British Columbia. It will drive academic and budget decisions through 2015, with the goal of helping the University meet its commitments to the community and fulfill its promise as one of the world’s tier-one higher education institutions. During this session, you will learn more about Place and Promise and discuss how UBC Peer Programs can play a role in one of three key commitments: Student Learning.
Putting Respect into Action (UBC Respectful Environment Statement): In late September 2008, President Toope introduced UBC’s Respectful Environment Statement for Students, Faculty and Staff. The Statement speaks to our freedoms and our responsibilities, and provides the guiding principles to support us in building an environment in which respect, civility, diversity, opportunity and inclusion are valued. Many of us live by the Golden Rule or the Ethic of Reciprocity: “Treat others the way you would like to be treated.” Have you heard about The Platinum Rule? “Treat others the way they want to be treated.” During this session, you will have an opportunity to engage with other peers and disucuss what Respectful Environment looks like when put into action in UBC Peer Programs.
Celebrating Success, Coming Together, Creating Change (Social Change Leadership Model): The Social Change Model was created in 1994 and is now the most widely used college student leadership model in North America. The model approaches leadership as a purposeful, collaborative, values-based process that results in positive social change. Many student leadership groups at UBC, including Peer Programs, are discussing what this model could look like at UBC. During this session, you will learn more about the model and consider how the Social Change Leadership Model could become part of UBC Peer Programs in the future.
Creating Your Student Leadership Path (Peer Programs Learning Outcomes): This past summer, the UBC Peer Programs finalized a set of learning outcomes for all its members. Over the course of this year, you will have an opportunity to use the learning outcomes to guide your plan for personal and professional development. During this session, you will get a special sneak preview of the learning outcomes and discuss with your peers how students across Peer Programs can work together to support each other’s learning and success.
Concurrent Workshop #3
Career Planning: Are you starting to think about what comes next after university? How can you use your experiences as a student leader at UBC to your advantage as you plan your career? This workshop will introduce a basic career planning model and give you some strategies to use this year as you prepare for what comes next after your degree. (Intended audience: Returning/Graduating)
Facilitating Effective Meetings: Make the most of your meeting time this year. In this session, we will discuss: how to prepare and wrap-up meetings with your volunteers, how to lead effective brainstorming, debrief, and update meetings and how to make your meetings engaging and effective. (Intended audience: All)
Transforming Conflict: Do you find it difficult to communicate when there is conflict? Want to enhance your self-awareness in conflict situations and preserve important relationships? Come explore conflict within the practice of leadership, as we apply strategies to help you manage and re-frame it effectively! (Intended audience: Returning)
Peer Coaching: How to develop rapport, learn to ask focusing questions, brainstorm resources and possibilities and collaboratively develop an action plan. (Intended audience: New)
Diversity 2: Courage to Act: Courage To Act is a compilation of short vignettes designed to create positive discussion around issues of discrimination and harassment at UBC. Our hope is that this material presented will provide us with a starting point to begin addressing discriminatory language, actions and stereotypes both on and off campus. (Intended audience: Returning)
Intercultural Communication: If you want to learn more about intercultural communication and how to think critically about cultural interactions, then this workshop is for you. In this session you will learn about intercultural communication theory, as well as how to apply the theory into your work within peer programs. (Intended audience: All)
Effective Collaboration: Collaboration amongst programs is key to successfully meeting the needs of ubc students. Explore the successes and challenges of past collaborative programs within UBC Peer Programs, while examining the “why”, “how” and “what” of future bigger and better collaborative projects and programs. (Intended audience: All)
