First Session Block Options (11:05 am - 12:45 pm)
During this session block, attendees decided whether to attend two of the offered Leader Lessons (45 min) or one of the offered Leadership Labs (100 min)*
Leadership Labs
In-depth session incorporating applied practice or multi-faceted or transformative activities. 100 minutes.
Students attended one of the following options from 11:05am - 12:45pm.
- Your Story, Your Strengths: Intercultural Skills for Life and Career Success (Reconnect)
11:05 am – 12:45 pm; Location: Ballroom C - Focusing on the cultural components of your lived experience, learn how to name and describe your intercultural communication skills. In this interactive workshop, we will engage in storytelling and listening, using STAR and LITE techniques to discover your own strengths and help your peers discover theirs. This inclusive practice challenges the dominant narrative of networking, centers interpersonal skills, and equips students with a lifelong practice of honoring, uplifting and celebrating their own stories and identities. Leave ready to tell your stories, with an emphasis on career skills.
Facilitators: Jennie Moylan, she/her/hers - UC Davis Global Learning Hub and Moira Delgado, she/her/hers - UC Davis Internship and Career Center
Learning Objectives:
* Identify the cultural components of your lived experiences
* Describe how lived experiences equipped you to build your intercultural communication skills
* Understand storytelling as a career and personal development tool
* Practice holding space and listening to recognize peers’ strengths through their stories
* Introduce and practice STAR Situation Task Action Result and LITE Listen Inquire Translate Equip Techniques - Finding Comfort in the Discomfort (Reignite)
11:05 am – 12:45 pm; Location: Ballroom B - Growth happens outside of our comfort zone. As leaders, and more over as humans, we must learn to thrive when we are within this discomfort. All of us are going to experience or have already experienced times in which life gets rough. To strive forward in these situations, and use them to grow ourselves as people is one of the biggest steps we can take in reaching our fullest potential. This seminar will delve into techniques and mindsets to practice so that we are better able to build our mental fortitude and enjoy being outside of our comfort zones.
Facilitator: Brandon Vernoy - UC Davis Undergraduate Student – 5th year, Biological Psychology, Center for Leadership Learning
Learning Objectives:
* Understand techniques and mindsets to build mental fortitude
* Understand the importance of being outside our comfort zone as it relates to our life goals
* Understand how the growth that occurs outside our comfort zones helps build our leadership capabilities
OR
Leader Lessons
Quick and focused sessions addressing one core principle or concept. 45 minutes.
Attendees picked one of the listed 11:05-11:50 am options and one of the 12:00-12:45 options.
11:05-11:50am
- Reignite Your Passion…Towards Your Career! (Reignite)
11:05 – 11:50 am; Location: Ballroom A - The pandemic has resulted in an increased number of students who may have had to, or chosen to, change their career paths. Students who have made major life decisions under the duress of constant change may feel that their passion for their industries has diminished or extinguished. In this interactive session, participants will have the opportunity to work on igniting (or reigniting) their career interests and passions through identifying career values and interests that align with their career goals and their inner selves through a combination of presentation and individual and group activities. Career development happens through every stage of our lives, and this workshop is for students at any stage in their education and careers!
Facilitator: Emma Singletary, she/her/hers - UC Davis Internship and Career Center
Learning Objective: Identify 3 values you currently hold and state in a few sentences how your current field of interest may or may not align with those values - Lessons from Lasso and the Goldfish (Reset)
11:05 – 11:50 am [also offered 12:00-12:45 pm]; Location: Conference Room B - Have you ever found yourself in a leadership position but not really sure what you’re supposed to do next? I always thought of leadership as more art than science, but it turns out there are more effective and less effective ways to influence fellow humans, even if they’re your peers or near peers. You can read about them in all kinds of academic work, but sometimes pop culture can be a powerful teaching tool. The first season of "Ted Lasso" presented a wonderful chance for me to re-examine what I thought about leadership and what was possible. It also turned out to be a terrific insight into “futbol” for my undereducated American self. In this session we'll cruise through first episode of season 1, pick out three core lessons that we can apply in real world leadership contexts, and maybe even help you become a fan of the “beautiful game.”
Facilitator: Mike Lorenzen, Ed.D., he/him/his - UC Davis Associate Athletic Director
Learning Objective: Do critical analysis of pop cultural messages of leadership and distill them into relevant applicable lessons based on sound theory and evidence of leadership
12:00-12:45pm
- How to Connect, Find Friends, and Build Relationships with Aggies (Reconnect)
12:00 – 12:45 pm; Location: Ballroom A - Over the last two years, COVID-19 has impacted everyone’s way of life in different forms. Unfortunately, students were not exempt from the impact and were forced into an online environment consisting of social distancing and online courses which caused meaningful relationship building to diminish due to the lack of interactions presented to them. As Involvement Mentors with the Center for Student Involvement, we have seen this decline along with reduced student involvement. Our aim for this session is to help students bridge the gap by providing guidance on how to navigate UC Davis and tips on how to interact and build relationships with one another.
Facilitators: Ashley Christensen, she/her/hers - UC Davis Undergraduate Student – 4th year, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Jose Samano Catalan, he/him/his - UC Davis Undergraduate Student - 4th year, Psychology and Cognitive Science, Center for Student Involvement
Learning Objectives:
* Build and maintain deeper relationships
* Reestablish a sense of community
* Understand techniques to connect with the Aggie community - Lessons from Lasso and the Goldfish (Reset)
12:00-12:45 pm [also offered 11:05-11:50 am]; Location: Conference Room B - Have you ever found yourself in a leadership position but not really sure what you’re supposed to do next? I always thought of leadership as more art than science, but it turns out there are more effective and less effective ways to influence fellow humans, even if they’re your peers or near peers. You can read about them in all kinds of academic work, but sometimes pop culture can be a powerful teaching tool. The first season of "Ted Lasso" presented a wonderful chance for me to re-examine what I thought about leadership and what was possible. It also turned out to be a terrific insight into “futbol” for my undereducated American self. In this session we'll cruise through first episode of season 1, pick out three core lessons that we can apply in real world leadership contexts, and maybe even help you become a fan of the “beautiful game.”
Facilitator: Mike Lorenzen, Ed.D., he/him/his - UC Davis Associate Athletic Director
Learning Objective: Do critical analysis of pop cultural messages of leadership and distill them into relevant applicable lessons based on sound theory and evidence of leadership
*The Reset Room was also open throughout all three session blocks and could be chosen in place of a session.
Enjoy a quiet and comfortable space for self-reflection. The Reset Room will be available during each conference session timeframe with a variety of materials at hands-on reflection stations to help you reset and reboot yourself as a leader through creative interpretation. Whether it is a visual representation, written expression, or doodles, you will have the opportunity to work out your thoughts, ideas and plan of action while sharing your creation with other conference attendees. There will be a facilitator in the room for guidance, but the space is really driven by you! Available in all three blocks of sessions.
After this first session block, attendees were encouraged to enjoy the provided lunch and network with one another from 12:45-1:30 pm. The Second Session block began at 1:30 pm.