Can We Get Along? Creating Welcoming and Courageous Spaces for Leadership Training
Recorded On: 04/10/2025
Certain states are creating policies to diminish "DEI" engagement, recruitment, and retention resources; leadership trainers need tools to motivate and inspire people across different social identities. Trainers who value "DEI" must find innovative ways to include it in trainings. This session develops professionals, who train diverse people, using identity-based storytelling and experiential learning activities. Participants in this session will create strategies that build trust and increase social identity awareness. Participants will be exposed to intergroup dialogue activities to discuss best practices and collaborate.
Learning Outcomes
1. Summarize strategies that build trusting relationships by developing impact statements
2. Develop inspirational stories to increase vulnerability and trust during training
Dar Mayweather
Full-Time Lecturer
University of North Carolina-Wilmington
Dar Mayweather is a leadership studies faculty member at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. In his role as a faculty member, Dr. Mayweather empowers college students to identify their unique talents and articulate those strengths to industry leaders, ensuring they secure jobs or graduate school placements before graduation. His coaching has led to a 100% success rate in helping students achieve these milestones. He credits his professional growth to the Social Justice Training Institute, the University of Michigan’s Program on Intergroup Relations, and Dr. Eric Thomas’s Speaker Certification Programs. Dr. Mayweather believes that his story and work can inspire struggling students and professionals worldwide to discover their gifts and find their purpose. Dr. Mayweather guides organizations and individuals past the fear of “doing leadership perfectly” by fostering trust, empathy, and meaningful human connections.
Continuing Education Credits
This session counts for 1.0 CSAEd-CORE credit
NASPA has been approved by the Higher Education Consortium for Student Affairs Certification to provide CE credit for Certified Student Affairs Educators (CSAEd). NASPA is solely responsible for all aspects of this program.
Guidelines for earning CE credit:
No partial credit will be rewarded.
Participants must also complete the feedback survey in the Online Learning Community.
1 Credit is available for attending the live session or viewing the on-demand recording.
To receive CSAEd credit, attendees must complete the feedback survey that offers the certification in each session. Once you have attended all the live sessions or watched the on-demand sessions for which you would like to request credit, visit the Continuing Education (CE) website to fill out the Student Affairs Education Certification Request Form for all the sessions. All certificants must fill out one for the live session and a separate one for the on-demand sessions. Visit the Continued Education (CE) website to learn more regarding deadlines and receive your certificate of completion for the Virtual Conference.
