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We are excited to report that through a partnership with VPFA, Community + Values, Human Resources & Inclusive Community, Student Affairs and Inclusive Excellence, and Advancement, Alumni Engagement, we are now expanding the You Rock! Awards program. This will enable us all to acknowledge the great talent, dedication, resilience, and courage of our entire ¿ì»îapp community. Anyone, whether student, staff, faculty, alum, parent, or friend, can nominate a fellow community member for their small and larger accomplishments.

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After our lastÌýwebinar and conversation with our community, the C+V team realized how important it is for us to maintain focus on how we lift one another up and support each other. With all that is going on in our city, state, nation, and world, we know how difficult it can be for all of our community members. Therefore, inÌýPart II of our resilience and coping webinars, which featured the Dean of Graduate School of Professional Psychology, Dr. Shelly Smith-Acuña, Clinic Director of Sturm Center, Dr. Katy Barrs, and Director of Sport & Performance Psychology and Professor, Dr. Mark Aoyagi, as they spokeÌýabout how we can all show up for one another and support each other as we continue to navigate these times.

Thursday, July 23 | 11am-12pmÌý

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As we continue to navigate the ups and downs during these times as a community, we recognize the importance to be there for one another.ÌýThis conversation featuredÌý¿ì»îappÌýWomen's Gymnastics Head Coach,ÌýMelissa Kutcher-Rinehart, and Senior ProjectÌýManager forÌý¿ì»îapp Impact 2025Ìýand C+V, Chase McNamee,Ìýas they sharedÌýhow we cope during these tough times and find ways to keep going as a community and supporting one another.

Coach Kutcher-Rinehart shared resources used by the team to further resiliency:

• Copy of GYM Education 2021.xlsx (33.26 KB)

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Thursday, July 9 | 11am-12pmÌý

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C+V invitedÌýthe ¿ì»îapp community to join us for an authentic, in-depth conversation on police and community relations featuring ¿ì»îapp alum Dr. Tracie Keesee, SVP and Co-Founder of the Center for Policing Equity. In this conversation, weÌýexplored police reform, community engagement, and how to most effectively harness the energy of this moment for true change.

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Join us for a conversation with ¿ì»îapp alumni,ÌýKelly Schlabach, Ariel Zarate, Makia Jones, Neda Kikhia, and Daniel Gonzalez, as we continue conversations on how we build a sense of belonging, inclusivity, and explore our values as a community. Our alumni panel shared their experiences and shared how we can all continue to show up for each other, build community, and fight institutional racism.

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Thursday, June 18 | 11am-12pm

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As our community continues to discuss how we all can fight against injustices and systemic racism, we will come together again to continue the conversation about racial justice and what allyship looks like, especially during these times. During this webinar, we wereÌýjoined by Dr. Apryl Alexander and Dr. Lavita Nadkarni from the Graduate School of Professional Psychology.

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Read Community + Value’s full letter to the ¿ì»îapp community in response to the continued violence against Black people with the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Ahmaud Arbery. The C+V Steering Committee refuses to stand by in silence or passivity and let this systemic violence and crimes against Black people and their lives continue to happen. We reassert, in the strongest terms, our continued stance against institutional racism, violence, bias, hate, and injustice.

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Led by Valentina Iturbe-LaGrave, PhD, Director for Inclusive Teaching Practices and Co-Lead of the Community+Values initiative, this project aims to solve complex problems, engage multiple perspectives, foster greater belonging, show compassion beyond boundaries and shape the future of our world. This is inclusive teaching at the ¿ì»îapp.

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This C+V webinar focusedÌýon how we, as a community, can fight against injustices and can create a more inclusive institution for all. We know how important showing up for another is, and we wish to create a space for support and checking in on each other. In this webinar, we learned about racial justice and what allyship looks like, especially during these times.ÌýWe wereÌýjoined by Dr. Art Jones,ÌýInterim Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion;ÌýDr. Kristin Deal,ÌýDirector of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion;ÌýDr. Tom Romero,ÌýAssociate ProvostÌýfor Inclusive Excellence ResearchÌýand Curricular Initiatives;ÌýNedaÌýKikhia, Program Manager of ¿ì»îappÌýDialogUes;Ìýand Dr.ÌýThomas Walker, Director of Office of the Inclusion and Equity Education. Some of theÌýpanelists are willing to be contacted by ¿ì»îapp affiliates with follow-up questions; their contact info can be found via their office webpages and/or ¿ì»îapp online directory.

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Reflection Questions Ìý(and their goal in parentheses). Due to time, only questions 1 and 3 were addressed.Ìý

1. Recent prejudice, racial injustice, violence, and resistance are recent and perhaps well broadcast, but not new experiences. What was your earliest/most impactful realization of race and racial injustice?Ìý (naming our own identities and learning journey around this issue)
2. What has been the cost to you of racial injustice: relationships, career, institutions, communities? (While not digging for trauma, what are the real costs of racial injustice, and not just to people of color?)
3. What has worked for you in supporting/being supported by others? What has not helped? What do you need/not need from those wishing to help?Ìý (while not speaking for all our people, we can share some, probably generalizable truths)
4. How have you continued to learn, act for change, and self-care in this work over time? (while not speaking for all our people, we can share some, probably generalizable truths)
5. What is one thing you now know, that you wish your 1st encounter self had known or known to do then? (hoping our reflective insights might spark others to consider what they think/do now…)

Resources mentioned/related:

• Upcoming Community + Values Conversations:
• Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (ODEI): ÌýÌý(homepage is a clearinghouse of current events resources)
• Inclusion & Equity Education, including ¿ì»îapp DialogUes:
• Office of Teaching & Learning (OTL) relaunch of Inclusive Teaching Practices website:
• WORC (Whites Organizing for Racial Consciousness) informal discussion campus group:
• Rocky Mountain Collective on Race, Place, and Law (RPL):
• The Spirituals Project:
• Dr William Cross’ Black identity development model (¿ì»îapp alumn and emeritus faculty):
• Diane Goodman’s Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups, which includes discussions on costs of inequitable systems to dominant groups
• Conduct you own responsible web search; there’s much available on self-care, self-learning, and justice action

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As we navigate this difficult time together, C+V realizes the importance of mental health, wellness, and taking time to rest and take care of ourselves. Sometimes we just need a moment to "be." This session on Compassion Meditation was led byÌýMolly Clarke, aÌýholistic health coach, registered yoga teacher +Ìýowner of Soulbeam Wellness. During the webinar, Ìýparticipants doveÌýinto mindfulness, specificallyÌýcompassion meditation, what that is, why it’s important during times like these, and how we can incorporate it into our daily lives.

Mindfulness Resources:Ìý

• Mindfulness Apps:Ìý
  • Calm, Headspace, Insight Timer, Buddhify
• Mindfulness Books:
  • The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Where You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • The Untethered Soul by Michael A. SingerÌý
  • The Power of Now by Eckart TolleÌý
• Mindfulness/Spirituality/Wellness PodcastsÌý
  • Expanded Podcast with Lacy Phillips
  • Highest Self Podcast with Sahara RoseÌý
  • Oprah's SuperSoul ConversationsÌý
  • Mind Body Green Podcast
  • Soul on Fire Podcast with The Balanced BlondeÌý

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This week’s webinar features Dr. Lotta Granholm-Bentley, Professor and Founding Executive Director of the Knoebel Institution for Healthy Aging; Professor Daniel Linseman, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; and Lilia Koza, Cellular and Molecular Biology Ph.D. Candidate, Knoebel Institution for Healthy Aging. The panelists will discuss how maintaining a healthy lifestyle and understanding aging can improve physical and mental health, quality of life, wellness, and community.

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• Knoebel Institute for Healthy Living: Progress Report 2016-2019Ìý
  KIHA REPORT Nov 2019 FINAL.pdf (1.61 MB)
• Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging: April 2020 NewsletterÌý
  April Newsletter KIHA.pdf (1.19 MB)
• Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging Quality in Life, Wellness and Community: Healthy Aging and DementiaÌý
  Resources slides Healthy Aging 2020.pdf (3.35 MB)

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On Thursday, May 14, 2020,Ìýover 80 members of the ¿ì»îapp community joined Chancellor Haefner as he facilitatedÌýaÌýSpecial Edition C + V Community TalkÌýfeaturing ¿ì»îapp community panelists, Grace Sullivan, Dr. Johnny Ramirez, Dr. AllisonÌýFriederichs,Ìýand Wade Loo. TheÌýpanelists were asked to tackle the essential question:ÌýÌý

‘Crises have a way of testing us—as individuals and as communities and societies. And we all respond to these tests in a different way. They shared what they areÌýfeeling personally, and what they areÌýseeing in our community, as COVID-19 has such profound impact?’Ìý

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