The Women’s Resource Center (WRC) offers various workshops for the BMCC community including faculty, staff, classes, offices, departments, programs, and student clubs. Please allow at least 2 business weeks notice for requests. Requests submitted with less than 2 business weeks notice may not be scheduled due to lack of availability.
All workshops will be conducted virtual via Zoom until further notice. WRC will connect with you via email to review planning details and confirm your workshop dates and times.
Submit a request form for each workshop/presentation topic you would like to request. If you would like to request the same topic on various dates/times you can use the the same form.
1. Women’s Resource Center and Gender 101: Who We are and What We Do
Usually 90 minutes
(This is a combination of “What is the Women’s Resource Center” and “Don’t Put Me in a Box” workshops)
This workshops covers who we are and what we do in the Women’s Resource Center including our mission, programs, services, and events. It also provides an introduction to gender, gender identity, and gender socialization as well as how to combat societal norms, stereotypes, and expectations.
2. What is the Women’s Resource Center?
Usually 30-45 minutes
In-depth overview of what the WRC is, what we do, what we offer, and how to get involved – mission, programs, services, and events.
3. Don’t Put Me in a Box: Gender and Socialization
Can be adjusted to be 50 or 90 minutes
In-depth introduction to gender, gender identity, and gender socialization as well as how to combat societal norms, stereotypes, and expectations.
4. It’s Not You, It’s Me: Relationships and Love Languages
Can be adjusted to be 50 or 90 minutes
This workshop provides an introduction to gender and gender identity to explain how gender socialization, individual experiences, and college impact relationships and how to improve them. It also covers communication and love languages. The workshop can be applied to all relationships types (romantic, family, professional, social, friendships, etc.)
5. Improve Your Relationship (with the BMCC Counseling Center)
Usually 50 or 90 minutes
This workshop explores the making of healthy relationships, teaches students to identify unhealthy or toxic traits in a relationship, and approaches to improving relationships to be strong, happy, healthy and successful in college.
6. Social Change Model of Leadership
Usually 90 minutes
This workshop engages students with the concept of social change and how social change is achieved through social justice movements. It introduced students to the social justice leadership model by exploring traits and characteristics specific for of type of leadership.
7. Unpacking Identity: Power, Privilege and Me
Can be adjusted to be 50 or 90 minutes
This workshop provides an overview of the different intersectional identities each person holds, along with terminology. Students will learn the basics of power and privilege in their own lives and in society arming them with the basic tools to understand diversity, inclusion, and social justice.
8. Social Justice and Cycle of Oppressions
Can be adjusted to be 50 or 90 minutes
This workshop introduces students to social change movements specific to past and present of the USA and helps them to understand various forms of oppression and their intersectionality.
9. Gender and Power Based Violence
Usually 90 minutes
This workshop covers the basics of gender and power based violence (GPBV), general terminology, overview of the neurobiology of trauma, the short and long term effects of GPBV, and how to respond to disclosures. It can be a general overview or adjusted to focus on specific types of violence (Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking, etc) with sufficient advance notice.
10. Consent (with NYCAASA)
Usually 50 or 90 minutes
This workshop introduces students to the definition of consent from a social and legal perspective. It helps them understand how consent is requested, accepted and expressed in various situations.
11. The F Word: Intersectional Feminism
Usually 50 or 90 minutes
This workshop introduces students to the definition of feminism, the history of feminism movements and its evolution at the intersection of different identities.
