UCLA is home to a wealth of resources, experts, and programs that seek to advance dialogue across differences through a range of methodological approaches and perspectives. The purpose of this digital Dialogue Resources Inventory is to gather information about UCLA’s existing dialogue capacity in one place, to increase visibility of these efforts across campus, and to support Bruins to access dialogue resources and opportunities – a one-stop-shop to explore and learn about different resources related to dialogue and bridge building on campus.
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Alumni Association Diversity Advisory Committee
Programs or InitiativesThis committee brings a critical stakeholder group, volunteer alumni leaders who are dedicated to equity, diversity and inclusion, and facilitates bridge-building with the university and various campus initiatives to ensure alumni voices are incorporated and considered in relation to campus-wide EDI efforts.
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Facilitator Practice Group
Programs or InitiativesUCLA Library's Facilitator Practice Group provides opportunities for library workers to participate in and learn how to facilitate community-buidling circles from the traditions of restorative practices.
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Heterodox Academy
Programs or InitiativesHeterodox UCLA – part of an emergent network of cognate initiatives at other UC campuses and nationwide, and a campus affiliate of Heterodox Academy – draws together members of the university community from diverse viewpoints and disciplines who are committed to open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement. We organize public events and advocate for policy and culture changes that will help UCLA renew its commitment to its fundamental mission of producing preserving, and transmitting knowledge.
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Interfaith Living Learning Community on the Hill
Programs or InitiativesThe Interfaith Living Learning Community (LLC) is a space for students to engage with the principles, traditions, and practices of spirituality and religion to create a diverse vision of faith. Students in this LLC will partake in dialogue to build a better understanding of religious and spiritual traditions and practices, to celebrate the religious diversity of UCLA, and to grow in understanding of their own relationship to faith.
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Local Partnerships, Global Impacts: Fostering and Sustaining Transnational Solidarities (Through Community-Engaged Research Practice)
Programs or InitiativesThe last few decades have seen the rise of exclusionary nativism and authoritarianism, on the one hand, and the rise of various grassroots and more institutionalized social movements seeking to resist such forces, on the other. By fostering meaningful discussion and cooperative ties across difference (national, ethnic, racial, gendered, class, and more), this initiative aims to forge proactive solidarities that rest on a collective sense of agency and responsibility for the promotion of community well-being for all.
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Office of Ombuds Services
Programs or InitiativesThe Office of Ombuds Services is a place where members of the UCLA community–students, faculty, staff and administrators–can go for assistance in resolving conflicts, disputes or complaints on an informal basis.
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Restorative Culture Skill-Building Workshops
Programs or InitiativesThe Restorative Culture Skill-Building Workshop series builds on a foundation of deep listening. Each session provides a safe space for practicing new skills to address challenges and conflicts in ways that are healing and restorative rather than alienating or coercive.
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Restorative Practices in Academic Medicine (RPAM)
Programs or InitiativesWith compassion and humanity at its core, DGSOM Restorative Practices in Academic Medicine (RPAM) builds a community where liberating dialogue and authentic collaboration foster belonging, resilience, accountability, and wellbeing for all.
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RISE Center
Programs or InitiativesThe RISE Center's core mission is to uplift and support every Bruin’s well-being by providing the education, resources, and tools needed to be well, belong, and become.
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Through the Looking Glass
Programs or InitiativesThis training is comprised of virtual interactive workshops that are designed to help us learn and practice skills to continue to cultivate an inclusive environment in the workplace and beyond. The series presents strategies to care for ourselves so we can better care for others we interact with. It then builds on that foundation by practicing skills such as self-awareness, empathy, curiosity, active listening, and clear and kind communication.
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Dialogue Across Difference Initiative
1500 Public Affairs Building
337 Charles E Young Dr E
Los Angeles, CA 90095