Equity Education Series

The Equity Education Series is an opportunity for all students to take equity, diversity and inclusion from theory to practice. Through interactive workshops, speakers series and casual conversations, you’ll explore real-world topics with your peers, reflect on your experiences and build practical leadership skills to create more inclusive spaces. Whether you’re navigating group work, campus life or your workplace, this series will help you approach equity with confidence and care.

Exciting news: our program is CCR accredited! Completing it will add to your Co-Curricular Record, enhancing your resume and showcasing your commitment to important conversations.

To gain CCR credit:

Register for the Equity Education Series on Folio.
Complete pre-reflection questions
Register for and attend 4 workshops* (Workshops are offered both online and in person)
Reflection activity

*Each workshop counts as 1 credit, students must have 4 credits to gain CCR

Join any workshop to support your personal growth, build professional skills and prepare for future leadership opportunities.

All of U of T undergraduate and graduate students from the St. George Campus are welcome.

Workshops

This synchronous workshop is part of the Equity Education Series and the Mentorship Foundations training. Creating an Inclusive Environment will encourage you to think about inclusion as a verb, as action in addressing systemic oppression. We take time to think about what exclusion and inclusion are and how they affect students. We reflect on some of the different ways exclusion takes place for U of T students in everyday life and we brainstorm practical strategies to create more inclusive environments in your communities and work.

This workshop is your chance to go beyond the basics of equity and learn how to put it into meaningful practice. Through group discussion, critical reflection, and hands-on problem solving, you’ll work through real-world scenarios that reveal how inequity shows up in our communities—and what we can do about it. Together, we’ll explore how systems of power and oppression operate, build equity-focused solutions, and imagine new possibilities for a more just and inclusive future. Whether you’re new to these ideas or ready to take the next step, this session will support you in turning awareness into action.

Being a student means balancing multiple roles, unpaid work, financial instability and various forms of discrimination, all while keeping up with your studies—it can be exhausting! So, how can we care for ourselves without spending more money or stressing about time constraints? In this workshop, we will challenge mainstream notions of self-care, explore models that address systemic inequality, and collectively reimagine well-being for both ourselves and our communities. Taking systemic inequality into account, we talk about how students can set boundaries, identify what is important for themselves, and how best take care of themselves and their communities. You will leave this workshop with greater knowledge and new skills for caring for both yourself and your community.

In this workshop, we’ll explore where microaggressions come from and how they show up in our daily lives, from classrooms to social settings to the workplace. Together, we’ll unpack the impact of these interactions, reflect on our own experiences, and build strategies for addressing them in respectful, thoughtful and effective ways. Whether you’ve witnessed microaggressions, experienced them or want to make sure you’re not contributing to them, this session will help you take meaningful steps toward creating more inclusive and affirming spaces for everyone.

Workshops can be taken in any order as they’ve been created as stand-alone workshops. If you have any questions, please reach out to sl.edi.training@utoronto.ca.