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Cultivating Connections: Building Your UCSC Community 🌱
This workshop would foster a sense of belonging. We'd start with a "Community Mapping" activity, encouraging participants to identify existing and desired affinity groups. A key segment would differentiate between advisors, mentors, and coaches through brief, illustrative anecdotes, guiding students on how to find the right support. We'd incorporate mini role-playing scenarios for effective communication with professors and peers, and briefly touch on conflict resolution basics. The session would emphasize the inherent strengths and "cultural wealth" students bring to the university, culminating in a discussion on fostering healthy relationships.