Quite a few of the advisors attended this conference up in Ogden. I was only able to attend for the first day, so I made sure I attended every session that could possibly have to do with a culture other than my own! By far the sessions available centered around gender identity and LGBQT on campus.
The sessions I chose to attend were pretty much centered around the LGBTQ community. I chose these mostly to gain exposure to what advisors around other campuses are doing, what they are encountering, and how they are learning and progressing to new understandings and tolerance.
The sessions I attended are:
1. Training at UC: How We Progress Together - talked about the awareness, competency training that has happened in their department
2. Harnessing Your Passion: Motivational Planning for Productivity
3. Advisors as Allies: High-Impact Practices for Gender Confirming Advising for LGBTQ+ Students - how to advise students without offending, presuming, or demeaning
4. Nervous? Avoidant? No Matter How Many Times You E-mail, They Still Don’t Come In: Advising Students with Anxiety Disorders.
5. Is Perfectionism Zapping Your Students’ Energy? - a problem I feel we encounter on BYU campus
All of these were informative and enlightening, but really, the presentation that included the following short video from author Brene Brown was what impacted me the most during the day - a new understanding of the difference between empathy and sympathy. It's something that I now consciously try to adopt when speaking with anyone, and notice more when I'm on the receiving end. Loved it!
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