Rupture and repair workshop with Suzanne Wertheim

We are committed to working towards an anti-racist and inclusive language science community at UMD. This is the second in a series of workshops aimed at helping us develop skills we need to build supportive professional relationships and a community environment that engages and encourages everyone. Please register here to receive a link to the Zoom meeting. Rupture and repair What do you do when someone says or does something biased? And what do you do when it turns out that person is you? These questions are at the heart of ally work, and key to safer and more inclusive workplaces. And the answers lie in the framework of "rupture and repair," which comes from therapeutic psychology. We show that "nice" doesn't always align with good impact, and that healthy relationships can't be frictionless. We unpack the three stages of rupture and repair, including common dangers and obstacles. And we end with small-group discussions of real-world scenarios, and potential steps towards incorporating anti-bias repair into your workplace. Dr. Suzanne Wertheim is Founder and CEO of Worthwhile Research & Consulting. After getting her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Berkeley, she held faculty positions at Northwestern, University of Maryland, and UCLA. In 2011, she left the university system in order to apply her expertise to real-world problems. She now specializes in analyzing and fixing workplace culture, especially around issues of bias and communication. This workshop is co-sponsored by the Language Science Center, the NRT grant, the Linguistics Department, the Hearing & Speech Sciences Department, the Communications Department, and the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab.