September NCLUDE

Office of Diversity and Inclusion Author

11/14/2022 Added

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During the session, Nia Patterson (They/Them) discussed the intersections of disability, neurodivergence, and body-based identity. They also present their promising practices and allow time to ask questions and engage in discussion. Additionally, Big Red Resilience offered insight and resources to enable community members to find support related to body-based identity and well-being.

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[00:00:00.000]We're really delighted to have everybody here today.
[00:00:03.030]I just came into this new,
[00:00:04.860]I am the new Assistant Vice Chancellor
[00:00:07.140]of Inclusive Leadership and Learning here at UNL
[00:00:12.237]and I have just been in this position,
[00:00:14.370]I'm coming up on three months,
[00:00:15.750]so I'm excited to bring this NCLUDE session
[00:00:20.010]to you all today.
[00:00:21.450]It is the first one I have done as well as Denise,
[00:00:24.480]who is brand new in this position as of August.
[00:00:29.190]But what we've learned in looking back on the history
[00:00:32.370]of NCLUDE is that there really
[00:00:33.870]is a rich history of NCLUDE.
[00:00:39.150]It started during the pandemic.
[00:00:41.700]So it's been a virtual platform for people
[00:00:44.790]throughout the UNL community to come together.
[00:00:48.510]Over the last few years,
[00:00:50.880]we've highlighted a number of different topics.
[00:00:54.150]We've addressed racial privilege,
[00:00:56.610]we've addressed trans identity,
[00:00:58.410]we've talked about neurodiversity,
[00:01:00.870]the impact of Indian boarding schools on families
[00:01:04.170]and native communities.
[00:01:06.030]We've also addressed current and contemporary issues
[00:01:09.390]such as Executive Memorandum No. 40.
[00:01:13.470]We've addressed religion and also really specific things
[00:01:17.100]like how do you create inclusive classrooms
[00:01:20.880]and use inclusive leadership in your everyday work.
[00:01:25.770]We also are looking forward to the spring
[00:01:29.940]and in our November meeting where for the first time
[00:01:32.970]we are going to have some in-person meetings
[00:01:36.150]which we have not had in the past,
[00:01:38.730]and so we're really excited about that.
[00:01:42.030]In November, we'll be talking about a new look for NCLUDE,
[00:01:45.540]we're gonna focus on some smaller learning communities,
[00:01:48.960]smaller groups that meet over the course
[00:01:50.790]of the semester multiple times.
[00:01:53.280]So we're gonna have some shifts coming
[00:01:56.940]and we hope that you'll join us on November 8th,
[00:02:00.720]which is when we'll have our next NCLUDE meeting
[00:02:03.540]and we're gonna talk about those shifts
[00:02:05.220]and collectively kind of envision what that could mean,
[00:02:08.700]how it integrates with our future.
[00:02:11.220]But before we get to that point,
[00:02:15.720]we have Nia Patterson here today,
[00:02:18.330]and I am really excited about Nia being here
[00:02:21.780]because so often when we do the work of diversity
[00:02:25.860]and inclusion and we set to learn more,
[00:02:30.390]educate ourselves, self-reflect,
[00:02:33.390]we sometimes ignore the fact that we do all that work
[00:02:36.990]and we do all that thinking in bodies
[00:02:40.020]and that those bodies really do matter
[00:02:43.710]and they matter to each of us in our own unique ways
[00:02:46.860]and each of us are affected and impacted by the bodies
[00:02:51.570]that we carry with us and we live in each and every day.
[00:02:57.630]And Nia, really...
[00:03:01.050]Sorry, I get a little bit lost.
[00:03:04.710]And so I'm really excited about that.
[00:03:09.030]Excuse me just a second.
[00:03:10.620]I'm so sorry.
[00:03:11.550]I started shifting screens around earlier
[00:03:14.220]and now I have lost my file that I was looking at.
[00:03:24.030]I appreciate your patience.
[00:03:30.720]So Nia, I also wanted to give a thanks to Megan Cardwell
[00:03:35.190]who helped us set up this session.
[00:03:36.720]She's our past GA for this program.
[00:03:39.990]Nia is a well respected Black
[00:03:42.660]and queer mental health advocate,
[00:03:44.610]social activist, a artist, a content creator,
[00:03:47.880]a podcaster, and a business owner.
[00:03:50.490]And Nia has created a number
[00:03:54.150]of different social media platforms.
[00:03:56.760]So they're really innovative and creative person,
[00:04:00.930]not only in advocating for body positivity for individuals,
[00:04:04.920]but making sure that there are collective spaces virtually
[00:04:10.050]for us to pursue not only body positivity for ourselves,
[00:04:14.220]but for each other.
[00:04:15.150]And I'm sure they'll tell you a little bit more about that
[00:04:17.370]as they begin their presentation.
[00:04:20.100]Nia is passionate about advocating for people
[00:04:22.770]in marginalized bodies and seeks to bring resources
[00:04:25.950]to those who do not readily see representation
[00:04:29.250]and healthcare for themselves.
[00:04:31.770]So in today's session,
[00:04:34.110]Nia is gonna be discussing the intersections of disability,
[00:04:37.710]neurodivergence, body-based identity, body positivity,
[00:04:41.910]and how we care for ourselves,
[00:04:43.860]and they're gonna present us some promising practices.
[00:04:47.550]We'll have a little bit of time
[00:04:48.870]and worked into the presentation as well
[00:04:51.480]to discuss these concepts with each other.
[00:04:54.540]And so with that,
[00:04:55.620]I'm going to hand our presentation over to Nia.
[00:05:01.020]You can use your reactions to welcome Nia
[00:05:04.290]to our center screen.
[00:05:07.050]Thank you.
[00:05:08.310]Thank you for that awesome introduction.
[00:05:12.570]You were reading off all the things
[00:05:13.800]that I'm going to talk about and I was like,
[00:05:15.120]this is a steep hill decline so we're gonna do it.
[00:05:20.940]And I'm so glad to be back at the university.
[00:05:23.130]It's been a couple years, so let me share my screen.
[00:05:38.640]All right.
[00:05:41.010]Hopefully I don't have all of the windows on my screen,
[00:05:45.180]so hopefully you all can see it just fine.
[00:05:49.980]All good?
[00:05:51.690]Okay, great.
[00:05:52.523]Thank you.
[00:05:55.500]All right, so today we're talking about body positivity,
[00:05:58.230]mental health, and a bunch more in there as well.
[00:06:02.580]So to start it off, my pronouns are they/them.
[00:06:07.260]I am just a person and my name is Nia Patterson.
[00:06:11.970]I am, as Dr. PeeksMease says, I am a mental health advocate,
[00:06:16.950]social activist.
[00:06:18.420]I spend a lot, a lot of time on social media
[00:06:23.310]and I've created various accounts
[00:06:26.160]such as the Friend I Never Wanted,
[00:06:28.110]which focuses on a lot of activism as well as mental health
[00:06:32.250]and my own personal journey.
[00:06:35.280]And then I also am the artist and business owner
[00:06:38.220]behind Self-Love Tool Chest, which is a small business,
[00:06:43.290]small accessories business that focuses on mental health,
[00:06:48.030]self-love, body positivity, et cetera.
[00:06:50.760]And then I also host and produce the podcast Body Trauma,
[00:06:55.470]which you can find wherever,
[00:06:57.600]and that focuses on interviewing various people
[00:07:02.610]about their own body's story essentially.
[00:07:06.900]And so we have some really deep,
[00:07:08.490]really nuanced conversations that are just beautiful.
[00:07:12.180]And my work mainly focuses around the Eating Disorder
[00:07:15.930]Recovery community, Fat Activism, the queer community,
[00:07:19.590]Neurodivergent community, and Self-Love and body love.
[00:07:28.410]So I'm gonna set some expectations for today
[00:07:30.540]just right off the bat.
[00:07:32.100]Today, we are going to challenge ourselves
[00:07:33.900]on our understanding of people, identity, and more
[00:07:37.560]and we're gonna have some hard discussions, I think.
[00:07:40.650]And I'm expecting that if you're here today,
[00:07:43.230]you are up for having those difficult discussions
[00:07:45.600]and participating to the best of your ability.
[00:07:48.510]If you have any accessibility needs,
[00:07:50.700]please message us and let us know.
[00:07:53.640]But to the best of our abilities today,
[00:07:55.230]we're going to have some forward thinking conversations.
[00:08:02.580]So starting off,
[00:08:03.810]because this presentation is about body positivity
[00:08:07.080]and mental health,
[00:08:08.520]we're gonna talk about what is body positivity.
[00:08:11.580]And so I think a lot of people have come
[00:08:14.820]to the understanding that body positivity
[00:08:17.190]is loving your body regardless of what it looks like
[00:08:19.980]and how it works.
[00:08:21.840]And while that is a beautiful sentiment,
[00:08:26.520]that's not where body positivity began,
[00:08:29.250]and that's not exactly what it truly is.
[00:08:32.610]And so body positivity originally started
[00:08:36.090]as a social justice movement in the 1960s,
[00:08:38.970]and it was started by fat Black women who were fed up
[00:08:43.890]with being persecuted in their bodies
[00:08:46.620]and they were fed up with being persecuted for being fat,
[00:08:50.160]but also for being Black and being women
[00:08:53.190]and so they started this movement as a way to fight back.
[00:08:57.390]This movement evolved into including
[00:09:00.690]other body-based depressions such as race,
[00:09:04.140]disability, and gender
[00:09:05.910]and these people became known as marginalized people
[00:09:09.960]under this umbrella of the body positive movement.
[00:09:14.310]And so this movement,
[00:09:16.560]which is why it's now a buzzword essentially,
[00:09:20.070]is because in around 2014,
[00:09:24.210]social media began picking up
[00:09:26.400]and talking about this movement more publicly.
[00:09:29.310]And so several fat activists on social media,
[00:09:34.530]I can't name some of them,
[00:09:35.910]a lot of them have changed over the years,
[00:09:37.650]but they began talking about their bodies
[00:09:41.310]in a way that didn't conform
[00:09:44.940]to what was considered the norm.
[00:09:51.060]And so what happened then was that in about 2017, 2018,
[00:09:56.820]social media took the body positive movement
[00:09:59.340]and buzz worded it to be #bodypositivity
[00:10:03.420]and instead of it being fat celebratory bodies,
[00:10:06.630]it was shifted to thin white bodies.
[00:10:08.730]So the movement began or became focused on self-love,
[00:10:15.150]on body love, which are very important things,
[00:10:19.800]but they're not the anti-oppressive work
[00:10:22.440]that people were doing prior to it becoming a buzzword.
[00:10:26.670]And so the movement quickly became white-washed
[00:10:29.820]and thin-washed,
[00:10:30.840]and it went from fat brown bodies to thin white bodies
[00:10:35.640]who are squishing their stomach
[00:10:37.020]saying that it was okay to love your body.
[00:10:44.970]And so we can't talk about body positivity,
[00:10:47.730]we can't talk about the importance of being anti-diet
[00:10:53.670]if we don't talk about weight stigma.
[00:10:55.770]And so weight stigma is the fact that there is a correlation
[00:10:59.550]between higher BMI and negative health outcomes,
[00:11:04.110]but the true why behind it is questionable.
[00:11:06.990]And that is because while there is a correlation,
[00:11:10.410]this does not equal causation.
[00:11:12.720]And for the most part, people will say that higher BMI,
[00:11:17.640]i.e being fat leads to negative health outcomes.
[00:11:21.510]But what really leads to these negative
[00:11:24.360]physical health outcomes is weight stigma.
[00:11:27.990]So weight stigma has been linked to an increased risk
[00:11:31.740]of mental health conditions like disordered eating,
[00:11:34.380]emotional distress, negative body image,
[00:11:37.470]low self-esteem and depression,
[00:11:39.540]which if you're being persecuted for being in a fat body,
[00:11:43.920]of course you're going to develop mental health issues.
[00:11:49.020]However, it's also been linked as an independent health
[00:11:53.580]or risk factor for negative physical health outcomes
[00:11:57.360]such as diabetes and heart disease as well.
[00:12:01.140]And what it comes down to is weight stigma
[00:12:04.440]is an independent risk factor for physiological stress.
[00:12:09.210]And so when we see fat bodies dealing with these conditions,
[00:12:16.590]it's really important to think about the why.
[00:12:20.010]Is it yo-yo dieting because these people
[00:12:22.410]have been persecuted for being in fat bodies
[00:12:24.240]for so long and they've taken on dieting?
[00:12:27.570]Or is it really just a number on a scale
[00:12:31.560]that is causing these conditions?
[00:12:36.570]So a great place to start...
[00:12:38.070]Oh sorry, I jumped ahead a slide,
[00:12:39.870]but weight stigma in the wild.
[00:12:42.390]So there have been several studies done on weight stigma
[00:12:46.350]and weight discrimination.
[00:12:48.030]One study found that weight discrimination is more prevalent
[00:12:53.070]than other discrimination such as ethnicity,
[00:12:55.860]sexual orientation, and physical disability.
[00:12:59.760]In one study, almost 60% of participants
[00:13:03.120]who reported weight-based discrimination
[00:13:06.330]experienced at least one occurrence
[00:13:08.160]of employment-based discrimination
[00:13:10.410]such as not being hired for a job.
[00:13:12.270]So the thought that most people have that fat people
[00:13:15.840]are lazy and therefore are not as hard of workers,
[00:13:19.440]is actually weight-based discrimination.
[00:13:24.270]And so one other thing that they found
[00:13:26.520]is that as people's body size increase,
[00:13:31.380]reports of discrimination also increase.
[00:13:34.230]And currently, there is no federal protection
[00:13:38.070]or federal law that exists to prohibit the discrimination
[00:13:41.610]of people based on weight or body size.
[00:13:44.280]And so if you are discriminated against due to your weight
[00:13:49.470]or your size, there's no protection that you can file for
[00:13:54.870]to get that job back or to have any sort
[00:13:59.100]of reparations filed in your favor.
[00:14:05.850]Okay, now a great place to start are these two books,
[00:14:10.770]which is "Fearing the Black Body,
[00:14:12.990]the Racial Origins of Fat Phobia" by Sabrina Strings,
[00:14:17.550]a great, great book and a great place to start.
[00:14:20.970]And then as well as the book "Anti-Diet"
[00:14:23.100]by Christy Harrison who is a registered dietician,
[00:14:27.630]which is where I've pulled quotes about weight stigma
[00:14:31.230]and weight discrimination.
[00:14:33.540]It really breaks it down very, very clearly.
[00:14:36.690]And so if you have any sort of desire to learn more
[00:14:40.380]about body positivity, weight stigma, intuitive eating,
[00:14:45.960]how to live in your body and why your body
[00:14:48.000]might be doing things that it's doing,
[00:14:49.920]please start with these two books, yes.
[00:14:56.880]So the effect of weight stigma
[00:14:58.320]and weight discrimination on mental health,
[00:15:01.110]this is really important because often weight stigma
[00:15:06.390]takes a mental toll, as I said,
[00:15:08.850]with disordered eating and depression and low self-esteem.
[00:15:14.970]These societal factors can be part of what triggers
[00:15:18.720]an eating disorder.
[00:15:20.790]And we know that eating disorders
[00:15:22.050]are actually brain disorders
[00:15:23.640]and not necessarily trauma disorders,
[00:15:26.070]but oftentimes societal factors can be the trigger
[00:15:29.760]that like starts it often starts the eating disorder
[00:15:34.260]rolling down the hill to a very severe mental illness.
[00:15:39.090]And then also mental illness requires
[00:15:41.340]more diligent self-care and increase in medical treatment
[00:15:45.000]and higher financial costs.
[00:15:46.590]So the cost of body-based depression
[00:15:49.440]is actually extremely high, both mentally,
[00:15:52.170]physically, and financially.
[00:15:57.600]All right, so we're gonna go into breakout rooms
[00:16:00.960]and we're gonna talk a little bit about weight stigma,
[00:16:04.740]body positivity, and body-based depression.
[00:16:08.280]So if you have any questions,
[00:16:11.010]feel free to ask people in the room,
[00:16:13.380]hear what other people have to say.
[00:16:14.880]And then I know we're gonna be copying
[00:16:16.740]and pasting these into the chats
[00:16:18.420]that you all still have them.
[00:16:22.140]What do I need to do?
[00:16:23.790]Nia, I've also put the link
[00:16:26.610]to the breakout room questions in the chat
[00:16:29.190]so everyone can click on that
[00:16:30.750]so that you can see that when we move to the breakout rooms.
[00:16:34.590]Rhonda will put us in breakout rooms of four to five people.
[00:16:39.510]All right, so changing a little bit,
[00:16:41.820]we're gonna talk about neurodivergence.
[00:16:44.288]And so what does it mean to be neurodivergent?
[00:16:48.630]So neurodivergent is a term that refers to people
[00:16:51.360]who's functioning falls outside of the dominant norms.
[00:16:54.420]And so they're often labeled as disordered or abnormal.
[00:17:01.080]It's an umbrella term that includes both innate
[00:17:04.020]and genetic conditions as well as acquired
[00:17:07.080]and development or developed conditions,
[00:17:09.270]and I will show a graphic very soon.
[00:17:12.630]It was a term that was created by Kassiane practices,
[00:17:18.120]and I'm still gonna mess it up, Asasumasu,
[00:17:20.550]I believe is pronunciation.
[00:17:22.320]And they're a biracial,
[00:17:24.060]multiply neurodivergent activist in the 1990s.
[00:17:29.520]They develop this term,
[00:17:32.016]and it's an umbrella term for anyone who has a mind or brain
[00:17:35.460]that diverges for what is considered typical or normal.
[00:17:40.440]And then neurodiversity is actually a different term
[00:17:43.560]that was created by Judy Singer
[00:17:45.630]who is an autistic sociologist a couple of decades ago.
[00:17:51.240]I think the graphic on the next side.
[00:17:54.240]Yeah, so another great place to start.
[00:17:56.820]I'm all about resources,
[00:17:59.364]LivedExperienceEducator on Instagram.
[00:18:02.967]And so this graphic is actually from their page.
[00:18:06.660]And I just want to preface this by saying
[00:18:08.910]that any resources that I share,
[00:18:11.790]whether verbally or on a slide,
[00:18:14.940]if it's someone's account,
[00:18:16.590]please be conscious that these are people
[00:18:19.290]doing free labor on Instagram.
[00:18:21.087]And so please do not harass them in their DMs.
[00:18:24.330]I don't think that most people do,
[00:18:25.680]but I always have to say it just in case.
[00:18:29.250]Please be respectful,
[00:18:30.210]please pay them for their labor if you can.
[00:18:35.280]So the Neurodivergent umbrella in this regard,
[00:18:38.640]we see things that people would probably consider typical
[00:18:41.580]like ADHD and autism,
[00:18:43.500]but there's also other things that fall
[00:18:45.510]under this umbrella like bipolar disorder, OCD,
[00:18:49.762]dyslexia, PTSD, synesthesia, down syndrome.
[00:18:55.110]There are so many other things
[00:18:56.520]that fall under this neurodivergent umbrella.
[00:19:01.530]And I personally do not see these people
[00:19:05.250]as functioning lower or higher.
[00:19:07.800]They're just people with different kinds of brains and yeah.
[00:19:18.330]So what does it mean to be disabled?
[00:19:21.060]So for the sake of these conversations,
[00:19:24.630]we're gonna go with the definition of disability
[00:19:26.430]according to the Americans with Disabilities Act,
[00:19:29.250]which is a physical or mental impairment
[00:19:31.950]that substantially limits one or major life activities.
[00:19:36.420]A person who has a history or record of such impairment
[00:19:40.380]or a person who is perceived by others
[00:19:42.480]as having such an impairment.
[00:19:46.530]The Americans with Disabilities Act leave room
[00:19:48.990]for so many different things to be a disability.
[00:19:52.200]It's actually pretty great.
[00:19:56.635]And while there is gate keeping at the government level
[00:20:00.330]in regards to practitioners being able to say
[00:20:05.190]that their clients are disabled, it leaves a lot of room.
[00:20:09.810]So that's actually pretty great.
[00:20:11.010]But disabilities can either be mental
[00:20:13.560]or physical impairments,
[00:20:15.360]and the level of disability varies from person to person,
[00:20:18.660]and the level of impairment also varies greatly.
[00:20:28.680]So identity and mental health.
[00:20:31.980]So I wanna point out that how we experience mental health
[00:20:34.470]is very dependent on our bodies.
[00:20:37.680]So some questions that we can ask ourselves
[00:20:39.720]about identity and mental health
[00:20:41.220]are are we disabled?
[00:20:43.980]Are we neurodivergent?
[00:20:45.360]Are we neurotypical?
[00:20:47.040]Are we in a fat body?
[00:20:48.540]Do we hold body-based privilege?
[00:20:50.880]In what ways do we benefit from privilege?
[00:20:54.270]I think these are all really important questions
[00:20:56.220]that we can ask ourselves when we're doing
[00:20:58.500]sort of like a personal inventory.
[00:21:03.630]Do we know how to take care of ourselves comfortably
[00:21:06.540]and to the best of our abilities?
[00:21:09.270]Do we have the ability to meet the needs that we require?
[00:21:14.010]And are we able to ask for help?
[00:21:15.960]Do we have a support system that is able to help us
[00:21:21.000]when we ask for help?
[00:21:22.530]I think these are all super, super,
[00:21:24.480]super important questions.
[00:21:26.430]And these all are dependent very much
[00:21:30.630]on our bodies and also our mental health.
[00:21:40.020]All right, so identity and the world.
[00:21:42.990]So once again, how we experience the world is very dependent
[00:21:47.100]on our bodies.
[00:21:49.290]I think most often people do not think
[00:21:51.840]about how their bodies affect how they move
[00:21:55.440]through the world unless they are in a body
[00:21:57.750]that is disabled or that is out
[00:22:00.630]of what is considered the norm.
[00:22:03.840]Some questions to ask about how our identity
[00:22:06.120]affects our placed in the world
[00:22:08.040]are are we able or unable to work?
[00:22:11.310]And are we able to easily apply for a job and get that job?
[00:22:16.350]And does that job provide us with a living wage?
[00:22:19.500]Have we been wrongfully fired from a job
[00:22:21.510]under the guise of illegal reason?
[00:22:24.330]Are we perceived a certain way
[00:22:26.280]due to how our body is presented?
[00:22:28.170]So that could be, do we look disabled?
[00:22:31.500]Do we have an invisible disability?
[00:22:34.050]Are we fat? Are we a person of color?
[00:22:38.340]And then also, are we able to find safe
[00:22:40.950]and comfortable living spaces and especially ones
[00:22:43.680]that we can afford?
[00:22:44.580]Because people who are considered difficult
[00:22:47.700]or not difficult, sorry, disabled by the government,
[00:22:50.820]can often not afford reasonable living accommodations
[00:22:54.810]due to the requirements to apply for being disabled
[00:23:00.240]by the government.
[00:23:05.340]All right, we're going back into breakout rooms,
[00:23:07.080]but we're switching up the breakout rooms.
[00:23:09.420]So this time, what are some assumptions that you've made
[00:23:13.290]about people based on how they identify
[00:23:15.960]or how you have identified them?
[00:23:18.990]Were those claims and assumptions founded or unfounded?
[00:23:22.320]And what was your understanding of neurodivergence
[00:23:24.990]prior to this talk?
[00:23:27.450]Has your mental health been affected
[00:23:29.220]by your own identities positively or negatively?
[00:23:32.610]And how have your own identities shown up for you
[00:23:35.220]in relation to life and work?
[00:23:37.380]And then also in what ways have other people's identities
[00:23:40.440]affected how you interpret their capabilities
[00:23:43.860]or how you interact with them?
[00:23:46.290]So we're asking a lot of questions today.
[00:23:49.290]I did wanna point out that people have been sharing
[00:23:51.570]other resources in the chat
[00:23:53.640]and I do know Da'Shaun Harrison and their book is amazing.
[00:23:58.140]So please also read that book because yes,
[00:24:00.630]so thank you CJ for sharing that.
[00:24:10.050]All right, so my suggestions moving forward,
[00:24:13.980]I urge you all to do some self-identity work
[00:24:16.350]where you take inventory of your various identities
[00:24:19.320]and how they affect your day-to-day life.
[00:24:21.270]And also I realize that maybe your identities
[00:24:24.600]don't affect your day-to-day life,
[00:24:25.890]but they affect your week-to-week life
[00:24:27.450]or your month-to-month life, or your year-to-year life.
[00:24:30.150]So please also take into stock those
[00:24:32.790]and take stock of how you may affect
[00:24:35.490]and interact with others based on assumptions
[00:24:37.830]you've made about their identities,
[00:24:40.440]and then give yourself grace if you have perpetuated harm.
[00:24:43.620]It's impossible to avoid doing harm in some form
[00:24:48.600]so please give yourself grace, but also take stock of it.
[00:24:51.990]And then do the research, ask questions,
[00:24:54.720]and learn as much as you can
[00:24:56.850]and help others do the hard work as well.
[00:25:03.000]All right, and then if we have any questions,
[00:25:05.400]I would be happy to take them.
[00:25:08.070]And then I'm just gonna stick my contact information
[00:25:10.350]up here as well.
[00:25:14.520]Also, feel free to put questions in the chat.
[00:25:16.560]I'll be monitoring the chat and can elevate those questions
[00:25:22.620]that are in there if you don't feel like raising your hand
[00:25:26.160]and sharing it audibly.
[00:25:33.720]I don't know about...
[00:25:34.553]Oh, Sage.
[00:25:37.290]Sage was in my last breakout room
[00:25:39.390]and we kind of were in the conversation
[00:25:42.000]and then our breakout rooms ended
[00:25:43.620]so I don't know if this is a continuation.
[00:25:46.380]Go ahead, Sage.
[00:25:48.300]Yeah, I really wanted to hear perspective
[00:25:53.130]on since you know Nia,
[00:25:55.140]since you're like a mental health advocate
[00:25:57.000]and at all these crossroads and do all this different work,
[00:26:00.150]it's something I talked about in our breakout room
[00:26:02.820]that I think is something that I struggle with a lot that,
[00:26:08.130]so as a clinical psych grad student who's like working
[00:26:12.810]with patients and a therapist in training,
[00:26:15.870]I think that on one hand it's really great
[00:26:18.900]that like we have these terms
[00:26:20.520]and that it's being more accepted
[00:26:22.470]and neurodivergence is like at the forefront
[00:26:24.930]and people are talking about it.
[00:26:27.360]But I guess I'm wondering,
[00:26:29.010]so because it's so talked about too,
[00:26:31.920]we also see have seen like a really big increase
[00:26:35.340]in mental health of people coming in and saying,
[00:26:38.977]"Oh, well I feel a little different
[00:26:42.060]and so I have autism."
[00:26:44.130]And when we talk to them,
[00:26:46.591]and I don't wanna be gatekeeper either,
[00:26:48.600]I wanna make sure people are getting
[00:26:49.830]what's gonna be helpful for them
[00:26:51.780]but sometimes I feel like people are so convinced
[00:26:54.600]and they come in and we're like,
[00:26:56.107]"It's not necessarily like more along the autism spectrum.
[00:27:00.330]Like maybe what you're seeing of is like
[00:27:03.150]some social difficulties that are maybe more along
[00:27:05.520]like some anxiety."
[00:27:07.140]I know diagnosis is crap anyway,
[00:27:09.721]but I guess I'm worried about the impact that that has
[00:27:16.980]on like if people are going around
[00:27:19.197]and like say they don't necessarily have
[00:27:22.740]like obviously it's a spectrum,
[00:27:25.800]but say that they don't necessarily meet criteria
[00:27:29.910]for autism but they're going around
[00:27:32.400]and I worry about like that taking away resources
[00:27:35.430]from people who like may actually need them
[00:27:38.040]or like giving people a different view.
[00:27:43.647]Like for example, if someone is walking along
[00:27:46.950]and they are like, "Oh I'm pretty sure I have autism
[00:27:50.640]and so I'm talking to someone who has autism."
[00:27:53.850]And I'm like, "Oh no, don't worry.
[00:27:55.800]Like you can get over it."
[00:27:58.917]And I just pushed through and then I was like good
[00:28:02.220]at connecting with people and it's like I worry
[00:28:04.500]about like those things getting mixed up and like people...
[00:28:09.030]I'm not articulating this well but
[00:28:11.490]I would be interested to hear your perspective
[00:28:13.800]on those kinds of things
[00:28:14.850]'cause I wanna make sure everyone's getting
[00:28:16.050]the services they need
[00:28:18.090]but I also wanna protect people
[00:28:20.700]from marginalized communities who like, you know, yeah.
[00:28:24.150]Anyway, who shouldn't have their like stuff co-opted
[00:28:27.660]or things like that, I don't know.
[00:28:29.292]Anyway. I definitely hear you
[00:28:30.660]because I've heard this question
[00:28:34.770]come up before so you're not the only person
[00:28:37.620]asking this question.
[00:28:38.453]I think that it's a valid...
[00:28:40.050]Oh my gosh, my face just got so big.
[00:28:42.060]Sorry, I'm so sorry.
[00:28:44.010]That was really aggressive for me.
[00:28:47.490]I can remove it. You're good. I did, I did.
[00:28:52.770]Anyways, I guess my question for you
[00:28:55.440]would be what is the downside with people feeling seen?
[00:29:05.790]And I know that sounds like a thing,
[00:29:09.930]that sounds like a thing,
[00:29:11.190]but like what is the downside to people feeling seen
[00:29:14.310]and what is the downside for people having an answer
[00:29:20.760]to why they feel different?
[00:29:22.050]Because while I know that a lot of people
[00:29:25.800]are diagnosing themselves off TikTok
[00:29:27.567]and I totally am like,
[00:29:29.557]"Are you actually diagnosing yourself off TikTok?"
[00:29:32.220]As someone who has a lot of potentially autistic traits
[00:29:38.880]and did see a lot of like commonalities
[00:29:41.760]with people on TikTok in the late diagnosis community.
[00:29:45.210]Like I specifically did not go around
[00:29:48.570]and say like I'm autistic,
[00:29:50.850]like I need to take resources from everyone.
[00:29:52.740]Like my reaction was to be like, "Am I really autistic?
[00:29:57.390]I need to do like testing."
[00:30:00.150]And like bring it to therapy and like all these questions.
[00:30:02.940]And I don't know if everyone...
[00:30:05.040]I'm actually very sure that not everyone is like me,
[00:30:08.280]but that is how I approached it.
[00:30:12.030]I guess I would also be curious what resources
[00:30:15.000]are being taken from people,
[00:30:16.860]whether that is because I mean most resources
[00:30:20.010]that come with getting an autism diagnosis
[00:30:22.230]are already unaccessible for a lot of people.
[00:30:25.980]So are those really being taken away from autistic people?
[00:30:30.510]These are just questions that I have like
[00:30:32.550]that are already like floating around in my head
[00:30:34.350]and I've heard people ask this question.
[00:30:38.520]I think having difficult conversations in therapy,
[00:30:41.820]'cause I know you're seeing clients,
[00:30:44.310]I think having those difficult conversations in therapy
[00:30:46.500]is really important if someone brings it in.
[00:30:48.930]I think also asking them like why do you feel this way?
[00:30:53.100]Like what are you seeing that is a similarity
[00:30:56.010]with like these people on TikTok and also with you?
[00:31:00.227]I think those are all really important questions
[00:31:01.530]that also my therapist asked me and made me think.
[00:31:05.040]And I'm always like the person who then like goes away
[00:31:08.730]and then thinks about it for like a week or two
[00:31:11.100]and then comes back.
[00:31:11.933]But I also like challenge you to think
[00:31:15.660]like if people are seeing themselves represented,
[00:31:22.830]is that a bad thing?
[00:31:25.560]Yeah, does that kind of help a little bit?
[00:31:29.190]Yeah, that's a great point.
[00:31:31.410]And that's the line I'm trying to walk of.
[00:31:34.110]Like I don't wanna shut people down.
[00:31:37.590]Like I don't wanna shut clients down
[00:31:39.450]and tell them like, "No you're wrong."
[00:31:41.460]Or I want them to feel seen and heard
[00:31:44.790]and I want them to figure out and get answers to
[00:31:48.060]and get connected with things.
[00:31:49.800]And so maybe the part about like taking away resources
[00:31:52.950]is like an unfounded fear.
[00:31:56.520]And so yeah, I guess I'm just...
[00:31:58.830]I also think a lot about the like how stigmatizing
[00:32:03.060]still like having those labels is and so like sometimes
[00:32:07.830]I worry about people who come in and are like,
[00:32:10.357]"Yeah I have this or I'm convinced
[00:32:12.810]or I see these similarities."
[00:32:14.190]And I'm worried about like if they don't know
[00:32:18.210]the impact of like yeah if we assign those diagnoses to you,
[00:32:21.900]like how that might impact you.
[00:32:25.020]And yeah, so I think those are lines I've tried to walk
[00:32:28.050]and so I think that's helpful to hear
[00:32:29.820]just like different questions to ask
[00:32:31.920]and continually think about and go back to.
[00:32:34.710]And I think also another good thing that like
[00:32:38.580]my psych provider did with me is that we like went through
[00:32:41.820]all of the rating scales again
[00:32:43.890]because that's just paper,
[00:32:45.180]that is affordable and accessible and like rating scales.
[00:32:49.320]Actually I don't know this for sure
[00:32:50.430]but they are not like a high cost
[00:32:55.290]and also like I don't know the exact website
[00:32:59.640]but like the RAADS test,
[00:33:01.350]you can take the RAADS test online for free.
[00:33:04.620]And so like I would also ask your clients
[00:33:07.740]if they are like willing to take these tests
[00:33:09.780]and that is one way to do like some form of testing
[00:33:13.320]to help them get like answers
[00:33:14.700]'cause I think a lot of people in the situation
[00:33:17.070]really just want answers and it's also
[00:33:21.240]a cost effective way to do it.
[00:33:27.780]Nia, we have a question in the chat
[00:33:30.570]and then I'll go over to you CJ.
[00:33:34.140]Madison says, I've seen a lot of resources
[00:33:36.480]on how to do body positivity work internally,
[00:33:39.000]especially from a disability perspective,
[00:33:41.550]but I haven't seen a whole lot
[00:33:43.380]about how to do advocacy for making the world
[00:33:45.660]less oppressive, more accessible.
[00:33:48.090]Could you share some readings, et cetera,
[00:33:51.150]share your thoughts especially in academia,
[00:33:54.360]in the workplace?
[00:33:56.190]Hmm, this is a hard question for me
[00:33:58.809]'cause I'm like academic readings in the workplace,
[00:34:02.070]I am not super familiar with.
[00:34:04.407]I'm not gonna lie.
[00:34:07.770]I do a lot of my education on social media
[00:34:10.530]from people with lived experience in these regards.
[00:34:14.580]I think one thing that's been really helpful for me
[00:34:18.660]is learning from people on platforms
[00:34:21.780]who are doing free education.
[00:34:27.029]I'm like trying not to turn around
[00:34:28.890]and be like, "Let me pull books off myself."
[00:34:31.680]But I think like a good place to start
[00:34:35.310]is like if you want like an academic book like "Anti-Diet"
[00:34:39.240]by Christy Harrison is a really good book.
[00:34:45.300]Obviously now I'm doing it.
[00:34:50.400]Oh, so apparently I am pulling books off my shelf.
[00:34:58.057]"What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat"
[00:35:00.240]is a really good book as well.
[00:35:02.160]I know this is more fat related
[00:35:03.660]and not disability related specifically,
[00:35:06.540]but this is a really good book by Aubrey Gordon
[00:35:09.990]who is yrfatfriend on social media.
[00:35:14.070]And I think these like are both really good places to start.
[00:35:16.680]And then also if you're in the black body,
[00:35:18.030]like I said, also feel free, I'm gonna put...
[00:35:22.650]I did not click enter.
[00:35:23.640]I'm putting my contact information in the chat
[00:35:26.880]so if you do wanna reach out to me,
[00:35:29.040]feel free and I can probably help you find something else.
[00:35:33.480]I know you haven't said what kind of disability
[00:35:37.050]but I know that the JAN Network
[00:35:39.570]is really a helpful resource for workplace accommodations
[00:35:44.250]for disabilities and they break it down
[00:35:48.510]by like if you are like for me,
[00:35:51.930]I specifically have ADHD and so was looking
[00:35:55.440]at like ADHD accommodations and what counts
[00:35:57.840]as an ADHD accommodation
[00:35:59.280]and it breaks it down really helpfully
[00:36:01.890]so that's also really helpful
[00:36:03.210]but feel free to send me a message as well.
[00:36:09.360]And we will have Connie Boehm from the Big Red Resilience
[00:36:14.430]who may share some additional resources
[00:36:16.740]that's here with UNL.
[00:36:18.360]We have another minute more before we shift to her
[00:36:20.970]so CJ if you wanna ask a quick question, go for it.
[00:36:25.080]Yeah, I would love it if you have any hot takes
[00:36:28.860]on like how to keep body positivity
[00:36:34.530]from becoming like a toxic positivity thing
[00:36:37.950]'cause I think for example about in one
[00:36:41.460]of the breakout rooms,
[00:36:42.293]I talked about five years ago I had a back injury
[00:36:45.210]and so was dealing with chronic pain for a couple of years.
[00:36:48.420]And so like conflicting feelings about like
[00:36:52.470]I'm supposed to love my body
[00:36:54.360]and be happy with the body that I have,
[00:36:56.880]but also like my body is actively causing me pain every day
[00:37:01.290]and like I just wish that it was different.
[00:37:04.470]And so sort of how to grapple with when those two things
[00:37:10.230]might come together of like sometimes my body
[00:37:14.130]is not the body that I want
[00:37:16.020]and it's not 'cause society says that it's a bad body,
[00:37:19.230]it's because it's hurting me.
[00:37:21.270]Yeah, okay.
[00:37:22.350]My hot takes in like a minute.
[00:37:26.010]Body positivity is no longer a social justice movement.
[00:37:28.900]It is a buzzword.
[00:37:30.240]Ignore it.
[00:37:31.260]My other hot take is that there's body tolerance.
[00:37:35.190]We do not have to focus on body love,
[00:37:37.320]especially if our body is not showing up for us
[00:37:39.300]in the way that we need it to.
[00:37:40.710]And so if you are like,
[00:37:41.797]"I really hate my body but I am tolerating it today."
[00:37:45.510]That is more than enough.
[00:37:47.310]And also like don't listen to other people
[00:37:50.730]who say that you need to love your body all the time.
[00:37:53.190]There's so many different ways to live with your body
[00:37:55.200]and most people who love their body
[00:37:57.660]are falling under the thin-washed and white-washed category
[00:38:01.110]of body positivity and don't understand
[00:38:03.480]what it's like to be in a marginalized or disabled body.
[00:38:05.700]So keep that in mind and that also my other hot take
[00:38:09.750]is that you are valid and it is okay to live in your body
[00:38:13.470]just as it is.
[00:38:16.560]All right, we can hand it over.
[00:38:21.240]Thank you so much Nia.
[00:38:23.000]If we could just show our appreciation
[00:38:25.620]and the way you like to do that on these virtual context
[00:38:30.390]for Nia's contributions.
[00:38:32.880]It sounds like there were
[00:38:34.560]some really fantastic conversations going on,
[00:38:37.530]lots of little tidbits and takeaways, connections built,
[00:38:41.790]which is one of the things I really love
[00:38:43.740]about the NCLUDE format.
[00:38:49.530]Thanks to those of you who joins
[00:38:51.210]especially who put your notes in the chat
[00:38:54.660]as well contributing.
[00:38:58.920]Lisa, if it's okay, I'm gonna let Connie do her piece
[00:39:04.680]and then I think we'll have a few more minutes
[00:39:06.780]unless you just have a quick-
[00:39:07.800]I have some extra time if you need me
[00:39:09.540]to stick around for a minute.
[00:39:11.790]Lisa, do you have a quick comment you wanna share?
[00:39:14.010]I lost you. Yeah, that's okay.
[00:39:16.680]Just a quick comment after,
[00:39:19.440]I believe it was CJ talking about how much
[00:39:23.160]he was in pain yesterday.
[00:39:24.570]I don't know who said it, but something like,
[00:39:28.657]"My body is killing me today,
[00:39:33.277]but there's hope for tomorrow."
[00:39:35.580]And I had never thought about that perspective,
[00:39:39.240]but the idea is you're having that problem today,
[00:39:44.160]there's hope for the future.
[00:39:46.110]Just the attitude shift, perspective, that's all.
[00:39:54.510]Oops, I'm trying to lower my hand.
[00:39:59.340]Well I just, I really appreciate your contributions today.
[00:40:02.997]Now I took away a lot about histories of movements too
[00:40:07.410]that I think are really important.
[00:40:10.950]And the other thing I really am taking away
[00:40:13.020]is that it's not just individual,
[00:40:18.210]just reading the comments in the chat
[00:40:21.540]and hearing what you're saying to remind ourselves
[00:40:24.690]that our relationships with our bodies
[00:40:26.580]are not just individual,
[00:40:28.140]that they are structured by society,
[00:40:30.840]our bodies and our brains.
[00:40:32.550]And part of that means that we have
[00:40:36.240]to address them collectively and not necessarily
[00:40:39.180]in isolation at all times.
[00:40:41.250]And so I wanna introduce Connie Boehm
[00:40:44.670]who is the director of the Big Red Resilience
[00:40:50.940]and Wellbeing program here.
[00:40:54.297]And Connie is gonna share with us some resources
[00:40:56.670]and tell us a little bit about her program
[00:40:59.370]on UNL's campus, Connie.
[00:41:14.130]Thank you so much, Nia especially,
[00:41:17.280]that was just amazing and thank you all for sharing.
[00:41:21.270]I wish this could go on all day.
[00:41:23.460]It certainly made my morning, so thank you so much.
[00:41:26.550]I'm just gonna take a few minutes to share a few slides
[00:41:30.461]and we had hoped to have some students
[00:41:32.160]that would talk about their,
[00:41:34.440]what we do in Big Red Resilience and Wellbeing,
[00:41:36.600]but they're out doing their thing
[00:41:38.160]in some different outreach events.
[00:41:39.750]So I'll just take a few minutes to share what we do.
[00:41:44.070]We really help students not only while they're here
[00:41:47.100]on campus, but we prepare them for life after UNL.
[00:41:51.090]And we do this through really helping them
[00:41:55.860]develop their resilience practices.
[00:41:58.440]And the five that we really highlight are self-care,
[00:42:01.350]self-compassion, gratitude, total wellbeing,
[00:42:05.520]and focus on the 10 dimensions of wellbeing
[00:42:07.950]and the interconnectedness of those dimensions
[00:42:10.980]as well as goal setting.
[00:42:12.690]And as I mentioned, we could not do that
[00:42:15.090]without the support of our amazing student volunteers,
[00:42:19.530]which really helped keep us focused on today's student
[00:42:23.760]and help us be creative and inclusive.
[00:42:27.630]So I wanted to highlight some of the specific things.
[00:42:30.630]Hopefully all of you have seen the wellbeing button
[00:42:33.180]on your Canvas page and we are proud to say
[00:42:36.690]that over 20 there have been over 20,000 hits
[00:42:39.780]on the wellbeing button on Canvas pages of faculty,
[00:42:43.080]staff and students.
[00:42:44.550]And that connects you with one click to counseling
[00:42:47.310]and psychological services as well as one click
[00:42:50.520]to the wellbeing assessment
[00:42:52.320]and one click to our peer listeners,
[00:42:54.750]which used to be called Wellbeing Coaching.
[00:42:57.300]And it will highlight the wellbeing assessment
[00:42:59.970]because over 10,000 faculty, staff and students
[00:43:03.510]have taken the wellbeing assessment
[00:43:05.550]in about the last 18 months.
[00:43:08.100]And we're putting together a report to really show
[00:43:12.240]where our wellbeing is on our campus.
[00:43:16.080]So some of our specific initiatives that we do
[00:43:18.690]from Big Red Resilience and Wellbeing
[00:43:20.430]and everything we do is really to help reduce the stigma
[00:43:24.570]around getting help and really pushing the resources
[00:43:28.860]out there that this amazing campus has.
[00:43:32.220]So our peer listeners, which used to be well-being coaches,
[00:43:35.400]will be operating starting in October.
[00:43:39.150]We have a group of about 30 students
[00:43:41.340]who have been trained in positive psychology
[00:43:44.970]and wellbeing and VIA character strengths
[00:43:49.380]and basically how to be a friend to other students
[00:43:52.260]and help other students connect.
[00:43:54.360]Right now they're following up with students
[00:43:56.910]from the Husker Power Survey that identified
[00:44:00.210]that they were struggling with their mental health.
[00:44:03.930]So we also are adding financial wellbeing ambassadors
[00:44:07.500]to our list of services and these students
[00:44:10.560]will be meeting one-on-one with students
[00:44:12.420]as well as doing workshops and helping promote cash course,
[00:44:16.620]which is an amazing resource now available to all students.
[00:44:21.240]And they'll be focusing on such things
[00:44:25.827]as how to prepare or what to do today
[00:44:29.310]to help you prepare for tomorrow on budgeting tips
[00:44:33.810]and really again helping students
[00:44:36.030]connect to all the amazing resources we have
[00:44:39.270]that can help support their financial wellbeing.
[00:44:43.800]We do suicide prevention called REACH.
[00:44:47.100]It's a training for faculty,
[00:44:49.620]staff and students on reaching out to others
[00:44:52.560]who may be thinking about suicide.
[00:44:55.260]Currently we have trained 6,500 faculty, staff and students
[00:44:59.250]in REACH and we are hoping that we can train
[00:45:03.780]a thousand more individuals this year.
[00:45:07.980]We have added a component where we're working
[00:45:10.860]with undergrad students become our REACH trainers
[00:45:14.040]and they will be training our students in REACH.
[00:45:20.250]This year in particular we work with CAPS,
[00:45:24.810]counseling and psychological services
[00:45:26.760]in everything that we do,
[00:45:28.080]but especially this year we're working with them
[00:45:30.870]on disordered eating and around body image.
[00:45:35.220]And we will be working with them to help train students
[00:45:41.070]in the body acceptance interactive workshop.
[00:45:44.820]And this workshop is pretty amazing
[00:45:47.220]and really help students in a variety of ways
[00:45:50.400]to help them enhance everything
[00:45:55.410]that we've talked about today
[00:45:56.940]and really helping them engage in body.
[00:46:02.430]We're gonna start changing our term and not body positivity,
[00:46:05.700]but really helping them look at their different identities.
[00:46:11.730]I so agree with Nia when she talks about your body image
[00:46:15.960]and the impact on your mental health.
[00:46:18.420]So we're excited to work with CAPS on this initiative.
[00:46:22.740]We also have Husker Pantries.
[00:46:25.140]We have one on East campus and city campus,
[00:46:28.140]which strives to meet the needs
[00:46:30.930]of our food insecure students.
[00:46:33.030]We are serving at over 200 students a week
[00:46:36.240]with our Husker Pantries
[00:46:37.530]and we're really hoping to raise that number.
[00:46:40.710]About 30% of our student population have identified
[00:46:43.980]as food insecure.
[00:46:46.290]Hi, how are you?
[00:46:47.760]This is our special outreach days that we do
[00:46:50.610]really helping students know how to have a conversation
[00:46:56.100]with others and really asking them,
[00:46:58.567]"Hey, how are you really doing?"
[00:47:00.540]And again, connecting them to our amazing resources.
[00:47:05.550]We will be enhancing and doing more Huskers Keep Growing.
[00:47:09.390]We're engaging our student volunteers
[00:47:11.730]to tell their own story about nearly every one of them
[00:47:16.200]has become involved with us because they have struggled
[00:47:18.990]in their life and they have amazing stories to tell
[00:47:21.900]and share with others to help again get students connected
[00:47:25.680]to resources.
[00:47:27.840]We also added alcohol and other drug prevention activities
[00:47:30.960]to our services this year.
[00:47:33.330]And right now we're out on city campus
[00:47:36.420]with Let the Good Times Roll and really training students
[00:47:40.260]in skills around if they choose to drink,
[00:47:42.630]to do so responsibly.
[00:47:45.300]And our collegiate recovery community,
[00:47:47.160]which we've been working on to establish
[00:47:49.530]in through over about the last three years
[00:47:52.740]is now up and running and very, very active.
[00:47:56.040]We have about 30 students that are in recovery
[00:47:59.220]that meet together pretty much every day
[00:48:01.740]and go to meetings together.
[00:48:04.650]So that's a little bit about Big Red Resilience
[00:48:06.780]and Wellbeing.
[00:48:07.613]We're always looking for partnerships,
[00:48:09.300]we're always looking to engage with more students in
[00:48:12.900]to help push out the word about that it's okay to get help
[00:48:16.920]and push out the word
[00:48:17.820]about all the amazing resources we have.
[00:48:20.640]So thanks for giving me a little time and thank you,
[00:48:23.190]thank you Nia.
[00:48:24.750]I can't wait to look at the transcript from this today
[00:48:27.900]and really share that with our students. Thank you.
[00:48:40.290]Before I wrap up our meeting today.
[00:48:55.590]Alrighty.
[00:49:00.360]Well I want to...
[00:49:01.770]Oh, I'm just checking the chat.
[00:49:08.010]Yeah, there's a lot of great comments in the chat
[00:49:09.990]and there were some resources as well,
[00:49:11.670]some additional resources.
[00:49:13.020]I think CJ put a book in there, someone else put a book.
[00:49:17.250]So if you wanna scroll through before you jump off,
[00:49:21.600]feel free to do that as well.
[00:49:23.100]And we'll put 'em in the reading and resources
[00:49:26.730]that we'll send to all the participants today.
[00:49:31.800]So before I wrap up,
[00:49:34.440]I just want to another show of appreciation
[00:49:37.860]for both Connie and Nia and all that they've brought to us
[00:49:41.847]and what they've set up for us to share
[00:49:43.650]with each other today.
[00:49:45.660]I also just want to offer gratitude to all of you
[00:49:49.200]for being here, for sharing with each other,
[00:49:51.540]for sharing your knowledge,
[00:49:52.830]all the resources that were shared
[00:49:54.840]and your own stories that were shared.
[00:49:57.540]So much of what we do with NCLUDE
[00:50:00.000]that makes it different is about the opportunity
[00:50:02.190]to build relationships of mutual support
[00:50:06.180]as we each dig deeper on our own journeys
[00:50:09.540]with diversity and inclusion.
[00:50:12.570]So thank you all,
[00:50:13.800]I really appreciate you being here today,
[00:50:16.500]Nia and Connie as well.
[00:50:19.320]Just a little bit about next steps I'm gonna share.
[00:50:25.860]Our next NCLUDE meeting is actually gonna be
[00:50:30.540]on November 8th.
[00:50:31.527]And this is gonna be part of a little bit
[00:50:33.990]of some changing and re-imagining as we're coming out
[00:50:38.280]of our strict pandemic times.
[00:50:40.830]One of the things we're gonna do is have our first in-person
[00:50:44.820]NCLUDE meeting and we're also gonna be sort of reimagining
[00:50:48.600]what NCLUDE can be going forward.
[00:50:51.420]So we're gonna start looking at some opportunities
[00:50:54.930]to build smaller communities that are sustained
[00:50:58.710]over the course of the semester.
[00:51:01.200]And we're gonna be thinking about how does that fit
[00:51:03.960]with existing efforts and things like that
[00:51:07.380]that are on campus.
[00:51:08.400]So I hope that you all will consider coming.
[00:51:11.400]We will have virtual options,
[00:51:14.580]so there will be an option to either be in person
[00:51:21.200]or just come virtually and join us that way.
[00:51:23.850]But we're really gonna be looking for input
[00:51:26.280]on what kinds of topics we want to build in the future
[00:51:30.900]and how NCLUDE can better connect with
[00:51:34.530]and integrate into other existing efforts
[00:51:37.590]that are already going on across campus.
[00:51:41.460]And yeah, so we look forward to having you there.
[00:51:46.260]We also have a new, in addition to that,
[00:51:48.270]we have a couple of other things
[00:51:49.710]that we just want to encourage you do.
[00:51:51.150]We have a new integrated learning opportunities calendar.
[00:51:56.130]So in addition to NCLUDE,
[00:51:58.230]you can visit our website in our button on the landing page.
[00:52:02.280]There's for DEI learning opportunities.
[00:52:05.370]And what this is is it uses the events calendar system
[00:52:10.110]that UNL already has in place and it brings together
[00:52:15.240]all events from all different departments
[00:52:17.970]across the university so that you can check out
[00:52:21.870]what different colleges, what different units,
[00:52:24.930]what different student affairs organizations might be doing
[00:52:28.530]to find a diversity of learning opportunities
[00:52:32.010]that might fit what your specific needs are.
[00:52:35.550]Now our contact information is also here
[00:52:39.000]if you have other questions or if you have more events
[00:52:42.300]that you think should be on that calendar,
[00:52:44.340]we wanna hear about that as well.
[00:52:47.160]So next steps, November 8th and check out
[00:52:50.760]this DEI learning opportunities.
[00:52:52.830]And then in the immediate future,
[00:52:54.840]what we would really love is for you
[00:52:56.820]to give us your thoughts and feedback
[00:52:58.530]on today's NCLUDE session,
[00:53:00.930]either by scanning this QR code
[00:53:03.150]or there is a link in the chat
[00:53:06.750]where you can offer us some feedback.
[00:53:09.450]We'll also send that link via email
[00:53:12.000]and a follow up email with resources.
[00:53:14.760]But again, I just want to thank you all
[00:53:19.335]for being here today for giving us your time.
[00:53:23.400]It's these kinds of things,
[00:53:25.080]the relationships that are built that help us enhance
[00:53:28.050]our collective impact for meaningful change
[00:53:31.380]at this institution.
[00:53:33.180]The relationships we build,
[00:53:34.560]the time we invest and the everyday actions we take
[00:53:37.980]are what ultimately make a difference.
[00:53:39.720]So thank you so much for being here,
[00:53:41.430]for giving us your time, giving us your energy,
[00:53:45.090]and being willing to grow and learn together.
[00:53:49.740]That's all, we can sign off now.
[00:53:52.590]Thank you all, me and my day.
[00:53:57.570]Thank you. Thank you, Lisa.

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