Integrating Cherine and Arthur’s 10 years of international experience as peace workers and social justice trainers, Diversity Matters Now! is a dynamic workshop designed to address diversity issues and enhance leadership qualities in all students. Through a series of lecturettes and activities that promote deep introspection, personal story sharing, and community building, Cherine and Arthur work with students to explore diversity and develop a collective sense of purpose. Together, participants learn about practical strategies to realize their goals on and off campus, especially as they relate to engaging with diversity, culture and power. Students leave the workshop armed with deeper empathy, a new lens on diversity and an increased capacity to build connections and community across lines of difference.

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DIVERSITY MATTERS NOW! CAN BE USEFUL IN A
MULTITUDE OF CONTEXTS

• To address and work to prevent hate crimes or prejudice that may be present on your campus
• To explore diversity in what may appear to be a homogeneous or mono-cultural community
• To investigate the impact of difference as it relates to race, gender, sexual orientation, class, nationality and ability
• To cultivate a more cohesive sense of community and build a team across lines of difference
• To orient new students and prepare them for life on a diverse college campus

**Diversity Matters Now! requires a minimum of 2 hours; optimal duration is 3 to 3.5 hours. We are committed to working with each client to identify and address the themes most pertinent to your community. One month prior to the scheduled program, the Diversity Matters Team would like to schedule a phone consultation to explore what would best serve your students and to offer coaching on strategies to maximize campus and community participation.

Testimonials:

“I want to write about the Power, Prejudice, and Privilege Diversity workshops.  I can’t.  I simply cannot write about it.  I could write about what we did and who was there but all you would see is what we did and who was there.  That’s not what I want to convey.  I wish I could get you to feel the kind of connection I felt with people that felt like strangers two hours previously.  It was powerful.  I learned about myself…”

-- Summer Wood, UNLV, USA

“The Power, Prejudice and Privilege Diversity workshops have been very helpful in discovering myself; how I viewed the world, who I really wanted to be, what I wanted to achieve, why I want to see changes, and what I can contribute to make a difference.”

-- Eng Tze Ng, The University of Adelaide, Australia

“PPP was the most powerful experience I had this semester. As opposed to regular lunch, dinner, hallway, and other conversations...the spirit of PPP and the trust built within the group made me truly understand that oppression and discrimination exist and that it is real; it also helped me understand better how people might feel when they are not as privileged and/or don't have as much power. Gaining such understanding is not very easy for a white heterosexual male from a developed country. It was a great choice to participate in the workshop series.”  

-- Michal Bachman, Copenhagen Business School,  Denmark

“Your workshops helped me to understand power dynamics in my life and to step up when I thought it was necessary. You also helped me to see common humanity in my fellow community members. This was a powerful lesson and brought me many friends who I would have missed if I had not made those sometimes scary attempts to reach out to them.”

-- Caitlin Bell, Macquarie University, Australia

Facilitators Biography

Cherine Badawi and Arthur Romano are long time friends and collaborators, and have been working internationally as peace educators for more then ten years. They most recently joined forces aboard The Scholar Ship, a transnational University with students and staff from more then 50 nations. During that time they were responsible for designing and facilitating interactive aspects of the curriculum both on-board and a shore. They helped implement innovative diversity and intercultural educational programs in Europe, South America, and Asia and in the oceanic spaces in-between. It was aboard The Scholar Ship that Arthur and Cherine designed and co-facilitated the Diversity Matters: Power, Privilege and Prejudice Workshop series. 

Cherine and Arthur have both been awarded the Rotary World Peace Fellowship for postgraduate study abroad.
Arthur holds degrees in Philosophy, Political Science and Conflict Resolution and has participated in and organized hundreds of social justice events and actions globally. Cherine has degrees in Cultural Studies and Peace Studies. She has designed and facilitated hundreds of dynamic experiential diversity and social justice workshops for thousands of participants across the US and Japan.

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