WORKSHOPS

Practical, wellness-centered workshops and keynotes that rejuvenate, connect, and inspire faculty.

What faculty experience...

insight

There is nothing better than leaving a training knowing more about yourself.

RESULTS
For change to stick, busy faculty need effective tools that are easy to implement.
UNDERSTANDING

All faculty deserve to feel understood, seen, and valued.

compassion

Compassion, not blame, supports well-being and resilience.

"Everyone who participated gushed over the experience—the safety facilitated, the helpful advice, and the easily implemented strategies offered."

Buffie Longmire-Avital, PhD
 Professor of Psychology and Director of the Black Lumen Project, Elon University

Virtual Workshops

 Available in two-hour workshop and one-hour keynote formats

THRIVING IN STRESSFUL TIMES

Balancing teaching, scholarship, service, and personal obligations in these challenging times has added more stress, fear, uncertainty, and labor to already taxed faculty.

This workshop offers evidence-based ways to manage stress while finding more fulfillment in work and life. 

Specifically, participants: 
  • Learn the hidden causes and consequences of stress
  • Examine simple yet effective coping and decision-making practices shown to reduce stress and increase happiness
  • Develop a personalized plan they can immediately implement for greater calm, resilience, and well-being

SUSTAINING OURSELVES (SOS)

Isolation, service overload, and micro-aggressions are just some of the impediments to advancement and optimal health faculty face in academia.

To address these challenges, participants in this workshop:
  • Examine intersectional factors shown to impact the well-being of faculty
  • Discover values-based approaches to managing the tension between showing up and stepping back
  • Practice culturally sensitive techniques that enhance healing, achievement, and work-life harmony

ANTI-RACIST MENTORING

Mentor programs are vital to the success and well-being of students, trainees, and faculty of color. Mentoring across racial difference, however, can be challenging for both mentors and mentees. 

This workshop provides an anti-racist mentorship model participants can use to begin the process of creating equitable, healthy mentorship relationships with mentees of color.

Using the model, participants explore how to:

  • Recognize and reduce implicit bias and internalized racism
  • Address the common mistakes well-meaning mentors make when mentoring across racial privilege
  • Enact anti-racist values in the matching and setting of goals and the receiving and giving of feedback
  • Heal mentor-mentee ruptures
INQUIRE ABOUT PROGRAMS
FORMATS & PRICING
 "Tone, message, research-informed, understanding of where faculty are right now [was] on point—with specifics about how to make that better."  

Alisa Rosenthal, PhD
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Randolph-Macon College

Frequently Asked Questions

I don’t have one standard honorarium. Most invitations fall in the $3,000–$6,500 range, depending on the host (university, conference, community-centered nonprofit) and the session’s format and length. 

Yes, depending on scheduling.

Yes. I can adjust the workshops to meet the needs of your particular audience.

"As a first-gen faculty of color, I really appreciated being in a space where I’m not the “only one.” Roxanne sees faculty in the fullness of our being & experiences versus only one fragment. Not many spaces like this, a true gem."

Susana N. Ramírez, PhD
Professor, Evergreen Valley College

Bypass bland trainings on well-worn topics...

for inspiring, wellness-centered content your faculty will love.

You deserve a healthier, more joyful faculty life NOW,

...not after tenure
...not after full
...not after that publication
...not next semester, next year, someday.

Life is too precious to waste another second. 

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