It Starts With Us

Upstander Engagement

The It Starts With Us series launched on February 24, 2021 and introduced the Upstander Engagement model.

It Starts With Us is a webinar series of presentations and panel discussions that inspire reflection and action toward more inclusive learning and work environments. Through timely and relevant content, the series invites faculty, staff, and students to strengthen awareness, build capacity, and find inspiration to carry REDI principles into their daily work and practice.


Events

  • Advancing Inclusive Research in Medicine: Anti-Racist and Decolonial Approaches
    Watch a recording for a discussion on how medical and health researchers can cultivate more reciprocal, collaborative, and inclusive research practices that are culturally sensitive, anti-racist, and welcoming to historically, systemically, and persistently marginalized (HSPM) communities.
  • Inclusive Professionalism in Medicine
    As our working and learning environments become more diverse, it’s worth questioning which elements of “professionalism” are essential for competent and effective education and care, and which perpetuate gatekeeping, exclusion, and various forms of oppression. Watch a recording of a conversation with health professionals and educators examining the concept professionalism.
  • Moving from Harm to Healing in EDI, Medical Education, and Clinical Practice
    Watch a recording for a conversation on reimagining conflict in medical education, clinical practice, leadership and EDI through restorative justice. This It Starts With Us session explores the possible limitations of retributive justice and the transformative potential of alternative conflict engagement practices.

It Starts With Us: 2023-2024


It Starts With Us: 2022-2023

  • It Starts With Us: Contextualizing and Educating about the Holocaust
    Watch the recording of “It Starts With Us: Contextualizing and Educating about the Holocaust,” in commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
  • It Starts With Us: ‘Rock the Boat’
    Join us on Tuesday, October 25th for It Starts With Us: Rock the Boat. Relevant to graduate students, staff, and faculty in supervisory relationships, this interactive event will illustrate the challenges that arise from the power dynamics inherent to supervisory relationships. The session will include watching videos of scenes of dramatic situations that can arise in supervisory relationships and discussing them in small groups. This session will prompt dialogue about how to foster healthy and respectful supervisory relationships and improve wellbeing for all while demonstrating a research-based theatre resource.

It Starts With Us: 2021-2022