The Social Justice Grounding Retreat: Building Roots in Compassion, Equity, and Justice
The Social Justice Grounding Retreat (SJGR)
The Social Justice Grounding Retreat: Building Roots in Compassion, Equity, and Justice occurs annually during the Spring semester. The retreat provides participants (undergraduate, graduate, staff and faculty) with an experience to dive deeper into the knowledge and skills around their own social identities and further define themselves as leaders of compassion, equity and justice in their communities. Participants learn about systems of power, oppression, and white supremacy, and will engage in self-reflective activities that center furthering their understanding of their experiences with power, oppression and privilege in their community.
The Social Justice Grounding Retreat asks participants to consider these essential questions:
- What is the importance of compassion, equity and justice in activism and advocacy work?
- What social identities do I hold?
- What do these identities mean to me?
- How do my identities influence my view of my environment, the world?