The Flourishing Collective
The Flourishing Collective brings staff and faculty together to consider ways to resist and reimagine unhealthy aspects of life in higher education, by creating spaces and practices of collective flourishing. We will feature speakers, engage with readings, and host workshops that sustain ongoing conversations about culture change, balance, and thriving in academia.
The Flourishing Collective is a new collaboration between Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, the Faculty Council for Gender Equity, and the OSU Center for the Humanities.
Summer 2024 Book Group
- Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Penguin Random House, 2024)
- Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself (TarcherPerigee, 2021)
Spring 2024 Virtual Speaker Series
- Imagining Another Possible World in Academia: Q&A with Dr. Annmarie Caño
- Dr. Caño drew from her book-in-progress discussing how we can co-create healthier academic work environments in which everyone, not just a privileged few, can thrive.
- Exploring the possibilities for broader institutional culture change as well as tools for empowering individuals, considering liberation psychology concepts as they apply to the academic workplace.
- Workshopping Healthier Work Environments with Dr. Annmarie Caño
- Dr. Caño guided workshop participants to identify oppressive features of their work environments and strategies to pursue together to support healthier working environments.
Fall 2023 Book Group
- Reimagining the Academy: ShiFting Towards Kindness, Connection, and an Ethics of Care, eds. Alison Black and Rachel Dwyer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Summer 2023 Book Group
- Rebecca Pope-Ruark, Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022)
Spring 2023 Workshop
- “Designing Your Restorative Summer” with Dr. Tamara Yakaboski, Academic Coach www.tamarayakaboski.com