AASHE 2013 workshop facilitated by Mieko Ozeki, Sustainability Projects Coordinator at the University of Vermont, and Daniel Roth, Associate Director for Sustainability at Cornell University.

1. CONVERSATIONS ON EQUITY AND RESILIENCE
Daniel Roth, Cornell University
Mieko A. Ozeki, University of Vermont

2. SESSION GOALS
• Identify our own values.
• Feel the support to have a conversation about equity and the
environment on your campus.
• Identify a small next step to take in the next month that excites
you.

3. RECOGNIZING THE SITUATION
• Lack of relationships across differences.
• Organizational turf and priorities
• Different histories of environmental and social justice
movements.
• Immediate assumption of similarities without recognizing
respective histories.
• People feeling a sense of urgency around different issues.

4. SHOWING UP
Spend 3 minutes to write, draw creatively about the values that
motivate you to make a difference on your campus.

5. MIND MAPPING
Mindmapping is the process
of visually presenting
information via a diagram.
Mindmapping is a tool that
conceptually associated
with the process of
systems thinking.

6. Resilient
Culture
• What campus
systems can support
behaviors that honor
shared values?
Behaviors
• What would it look
like if these values
were alive and well
on campus?
Shared
Values
• What are the shared
values of diversity,
justice, resiliency,
and sustainability?

7. TAKING IT HOME
Write down:
 1 request for support
 “It would really feel helpful to have or hear ….”
 1 small next step that excites you