Workshops & Training
To further its commitment to building and maintaining a fair, equitable, diverse, and accessible university community, the Office for Equity and Accessibility offers a variety of highly engaging, customizable and practical workshops on university's anti-discrimination policies and procedures; the protections and accommodations for individuals with disabilities; affirmative action in hiring; prevention of sex and gender-based harassment and discrimination; and on conflict resolution. Please, contact OEA to discuss your training needs.
READ: Respect, Equity, and Anti-discrimination Training
READ: Respect, Equity, and Anti-discrimination Training is a mandatory bi-annual training for all faculty, staff, and non-student wage employees of the university. This highly interactive workshop takes approximately 45 minutes to complete and covers the university's key information about the university’s anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policies, federal civil rights laws, complaint procedures, and employee reporting responsibilities.
One can complete READ training by registering through the PageUp LMS for either an on-demand module or for live, instructor-led training.
Please contact OEA at oeatraining@vt.edu with any questions about READ training.
ADA and Accessibility Services
This workshop, offered by request, teaches the participants how to create highly interactive and accessible Power Point presentations. To schedule this workshop, contact the ADA and Accessibility Team.
This workshop offers the participants basic understanding of the American with Disabilities Act as Amended and introduces the participants to the reasonable accomodations process at Virginia Tech. This workshop is available by request. For more information about this workshop, contact the ADA and Accessibility Team.
Affirmative Action
This workshop is designed for members of search committees and other Virginia Tech stakeholders who may participate in the search and selection process. In order to participate in the search and selection process, an employee must have completed this workshop within the last two years. To register for this workshop, please click here. For more information about the charge workshop, please contact the Office for Equity and Accessibility.
Conflict Resolution
OEA offers conflict resolution workshops to strengthen communication and increase collaboration in the workplace. Several highly customizable and interactive conflict resolution workshops are offered. Contact Henry Yampolsky for more information on these workshops, which include:
Moving from Conflict to Collaboration is a highly interactive workshop which teaches core skills such as active listening, asking open-ended questions, discovering interests and needs and creative brainstorming which empower the participants to build better teams and to use conflict as an opportunity for growth, connection and dialogue.
Dis-Solving Conflict from Withintm is a mindfulness-based conflict coaching system which uses the process of self-inquiry to deal with internal aspects of interpersonal conflict and teaches individuals to respond to conflict with strength, clarity and ease, instead of reacting to it with fear, avoidance or aggression.
The workshop in Compassionate Communications teaches the participants to identify and engage with feelings and needs which are at the base of our day-to-day interactions. Identifying and engaging with feelings and needs is at the core of more productive and compassionate work interactions. It is one of the most important fundamentals for building a more equitable, effective and collaborative work community.