{"633958":{"#nid":"633958","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Building Resilience During Challenging Times","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESince December 2015, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Resilience Employee Resource Group (ERG) has led the charge of helping students, faculty, and staff build skills to effectively manage the impact of adversity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with partners across the Institute, Resilience \u0026ndash; one of six ERG\u0026rsquo;s offered to campus staffers by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInstitute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026rsquo;s Staff Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement unit \u0026ndash; has provided experiences to help participants increase resilience and strength, and proactively mitigate the impact of routine stress, crisis, and change. Program activities have included workshops, leadership panels, educational experiences, facilitated dialogues, mentoring, and peer support.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Today, this work is more important than ever,\u0026rdquo; said Sonia Alvarez-Robinson, executive director of Georgia Tech Strategic Consulting and principal empowerment officer of the Resilience ERG. And that is why Resilience, together with the University System of Georgia\u0026nbsp;Employee Assistance Program (EAP) partner KEPRO, is hosting a webinar called Building Resiliency and Coping with Change.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis online workshop will be offered to Georgia Tech students, faculty, and staff on three dates: April 20, 28, and May 1, from 1 to 2 p.m. Interested participants can register for one of the sessions \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.co1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_8Dmfos0DiWaZFAh\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn other efforts to increase resilience awareness across the Tech community, the first Building Personal and Organizational Resilience \u0026ldquo;mini-mester\u0026rdquo; course \u0026ndash; 1 credit hour, five-week class introducing students to nontraditional classroom material \u0026ndash; was delivered to Georgia Tech students earlier this spring. The course will be offered again in early and late Summer semester and during all three Fall mini-mester terms.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe class is designed to help students build skills to survive and thrive through chronic stresses and acute crises, and offers a variety of techniques for students to build resilience.\u0026nbsp;Registration is now open and available on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/oscar.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOSCAR\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about the Resilience ERG, workshop presentations, videos, resources, and information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sdie.gatech.edu\/resilience-employee-resource-group\u0022\u003Esdie.gatech.edu\/resilience-employee-resource-group\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech ERG offers virtual workshops and courses for the campus community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech ERG offers virtual workshops and courses for the campus community."}],"uid":"34932","created_gmt":"2020-03-31 20:00:34","changed_gmt":"2020-04-01 14:30:41","author":"Courtney Hill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-03-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-03-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"633977":{"id":"633977","type":"image","title":"Resilience ERG\u00a0Leadership Panel \u2018Realities of Resilience: An Authentic Leadership Dialogue,\u2019 featuring Sonia Alvarez-Robinson, Dean Maryam Alavi, Dean Steve McLaughlin, and Kim Harrington","body":null,"created":"1585751405","gmt_created":"2020-04-01 14:30:05","changed":"1585929434","gmt_changed":"2020-04-03 15:57:14","alt":"","file":{"fid":"241268","name":"rsz_ergphoto.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rsz_ergphoto.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rsz_ergphoto.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":287656,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/rsz_ergphoto.jpg?itok=6jsTy1OX"}}},"media_ids":["633977"],"groups":[{"id":"535131","name":"ADVANCE"},{"id":"1313","name":"Institute Diversity"},{"id":"1307","name":"Office of Minority Education and Development (OMED)"},{"id":"535141","name":"Staff Diversity"},{"id":"322561","name":"Student Diversity Programs"},{"id":"132371","name":"The Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10617","name":"resilience"},{"id":"80261","name":"employee resource group"},{"id":"182969","name":"adversity"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECourtney Hill\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInstitute Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ncourtney.hill@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["courtney.hill@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}