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Our center offers a wide range of training and educational workshops throughout the semester and by request. All of our workshops are open to members of the Rutgers community, including students, faculty, and staff. Check out our upcoming workshops by clicking the dropdown menus below.
Can’t make it to one of our workshops? Want us to come to you? We can facilitate any of our standard offerings to your student staff, classrooms, or departments/units. Please peruse our menu and request form below for more information. If you are looking for a specific training not listed below, we are happy to work with you to build an agenda that’s tailored to your learning goals as it pertains to all forms of social justice (racism, ableism, classism, etc…)
Menu of Offerings
- Safe(R) Space
For Fall 2026 Dates, visit socialjustice.rutgers.edu/safer-space
This workshop is an introductory, interactive session meant to familiarize participants with various concepts related to LGBTQIA+ identities and experiences. As a result of participating in this workshop, participants will:
- Reflect on the ways in which society has taught us to think about sexual orientation and gender identity;
- Define specific terms and understand the importance of affirming language;
- Learn about specific issues impacting transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people;
- Deconstruct their relationship with power, privilege, and oppression; and
- Identify specific ways to practice allyship on behalf of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Anyone who completes SafeR Space and a short reflection will be invited to join the SJE Advocates Network, a select group of faculty and staff liaisons who are committed to confronting LGBTQIA+ issues and celebrating LGBTQIA+ students in their respective spaces and communities.
Session Length: 3 hours (highly recommended; breaks are offered throughout), 90 min
- Beyond Safe(R) Space: Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender Nonconforming (TNBGNC) Identities
**Only available to those who have completed Safe(R) Space Training**
This workshop, the first in our Beyond SafeR Space Series, takes the next steps towards educating the audience about the intricacies of transgender, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming (TNBGNC) identities. Terminology (with the understanding that language is ever-changing) and reflective activities will be highlighted to encourage a deeper understanding. Participants will confront cisgender privilege and be able to identify practical forms of allyship for people who identify under the TNBGNC umbrella.
Session Length: 60 min
- Scarlet Knights Call To Inclusion
Fall 2026 Dates TBA
This workshop calls on all of us to contribute to a just and equitable campus community. Participants will identify and reflect on their salient identities from an intersectional lens, deconstruct the impact of common, negatively charged words and phrases, and identify how harmful language can create a damaging environment for all, including those with privilege. This workshop places an emphasis on microaggressions and provides ways to ally with and advocate on behalf of those who experience harm.
Session Length: 90 min
- Building Inclusive Communities (Standard or Customized)
Fall 2026 Dates TBA
This workshop allows participants to identify and reflect on their salient identities, identify ways in which we can foster an inclusive community together, and critique the ways society has taught us to think, feel, and behave towards various marginalized identities. The standard version gives participants space to discuss and debrief the ways these early messages fit into systems of privilege, oppression, power, and bias.
This workshop can be customized to meet the needs of your audience, whether you hope to center specific populations, identities, and/or topics, align with your functional area or scope of practice, and more.
Session Length: 60 min, 90 min, 2 hours (based on customized content)
