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Thank you for joining us at the 2020 GEO Summit (Global Engagement Online)! Continue to use this participant portal to access GEO resources, watch recorded sessions, and stay in touch with other participants! We hope to see you at another summit soon!
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Bienvenue! Welcome! 歡迎! Willkommen! Benvenuto!
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Thank you all for registering for the upcoming GEO Summit on April 15-17th!
We are thrilled to have you joining us in for this new adventure in online global engagement!
Our Leadership Welcomes you to the 2020 GEO Summit!
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Register for GEO Summit Sessions. Please register for the sessions you plan to attend.
We are also excited to announce that we have multiple sessions during the GEO Summit that are CEU eligible and free of cost! If you would like CEU credit for participating, please select the "CEU Eligible" session you wish to attend during session registration. Additional details will be sent via email.
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Why? How has that experience changed your life since?
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Itinerary
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Learn more about our outstanding presenters on our GEO Summit registration site.
Terrorism, Trauma, and Resilience within the Context of Israel
This session will give an overview of the work done during study abroad in Israel, define terrorism, provide Israeli context, and delve into trauma and resilience.
Presented by: Dr. Nancy Zarse
Protests in South Africa: Understanding Community Resistance
A focus on the high level of Service Delivery Protests in South Africa, and why they are invariably accompanied by violence and looting. Why is it that when a community is protesting the lack of municipal services, that it burns down the local school in the process?
Presented by: Lizette Lancaster
Recording Access Password: V1&95*4u
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AjlF9nHn9ZE889G258NtkWEPHzf-z1OP
Coffee Chat - Working/Studying from Home 101
Join us for an informal coffee chat discussing the new normal in working & studying from home. We will discuss strategies for a successful remote lifestyle through the "5 C's" framework with a little bit of caring (& commiserating) together in these new times!
Presented by: Dr. Jenn Fullick
Recording Access Password: c4=Fxo70
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kugBJlsaNCdB9BUK3t1R1ytpNGhW_W_A
The New Normal: A View from Germany
This GLOBE Talk series provides a peek into today in the life of those around the globe. Learn about crisis response, mental health, cultural distinctions, and daily life in Germany today.
Presented by: Dr. Thorsten Bagshik
Recording Access Password: u3?+Ya9+
*Community Based Trauma & Community Based Healing: Including a Perspective from Rwanda
*CEU Eligible Session
Systemic violence interacts at ecological levels to traumatize individuals, families, communities and societies. These systemic forces reinforce and exacerbate underlying conditions that contribute to trauma, often through stigmatization. The effects of trauma can thus last over generations, and contribute to long-lasting oppression. Interventions at only one level fail to address the entrenched nature of trauma. This presentation will explain how trauma intersects at multiple levels, using social and psychological theories. It will examine systemic trauma of state sponsored torture in particular. Also included in the presentation will be examination of community based healing strategies. There will be a review of strategies as well as in depth examination of a community based healing model used by the Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition (TASSC). This organization promotes healing through involvement of survivors in decision making; peer support and peer healing groups; and advocacy efforts at individual and systemic levels.
Presented by: Dr. Nancy Bothne & Leonce Byimana
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Llm94-pl4br_N3AQvgDE1iLn7_t_HbUB/view?usp=sharing
Education in Peru: A Global Perspective
During this session, participants will evaluate the current educational system in Peru and learn the structure, methods of instructional delivery, and understand the economic impacts of race, location, and socio-economic status have on educational performance. The continuous improvement model coupled with the analysis of the current complexities of policy will give the participants insights into K-12 and the higher education system in Peru. The guiding questions will frame the discussion by bringing quality and accountability to the center of the presentation to unlock potential solutions.
Presented by: Dr. Jerell Hill & Manuel Rodriguez
Access Password: m7@@7H18
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17ea9TyluyRU-jpMRk3s-bi8uqndMhcbA
Implicit Bias & Cultural Understanding
Implicit bias refers to a person’s unconscious understanding, beliefs, decisions, and actions that relate to their individual attitudes and stereotypes of the world. Implicit bias is a shared human phenomenon that is shaped by our environments over time and often influences how we relate to one another. This training will introduce the concept of implicit bias so that participants can understand their behavior on a deeper level and begin to identify how implicit bias shows up in their lives. Additionally, participants will learn to approach others from a place of cultural humility in an effort to minimize the impact of implicit bias and relate to others from a place of respect, compassion and kindness.
Presented by: Kristin Lancaster & Arin Donovan
Recording Part 1: https://tcsedsystem.zoom.us/rec/share/6ddWdZDz3DlIbK-Wtl3depwgG928T6a8g3QY-vAJmElPu04j86VfsJL12mFO5eeK
Recording Access Password Part 1: Y9@Gs1qi
Recording Part 2: https://tcsedsystem.zoom.us/rec/share/5ed_ArT1035LTK_t7huHCq4kOJSmaaa81SAZ-aZYnk-uTXoyyb_-amA--NWUg8Ug
Recording Access Password Part 2: h1##78F3
Presentation: https://prezi.com/view/w3atldbQFr9Mh39Jmchn/
GLOBE Talk: Online Pedagogy
Join us in learning more about online pedagogy and best practices for virtual, student-centered learning.
Presented by: Dr. Sean Nufer
Recording: https://transcripts.gotomeeting.com/#/s/91d007f305038a2ce3640e33e4eeb60c079a71c472a7dd2b63810e3e156a420e
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qICeZ1oTvya8uQlW_yq2BsaSFC7LnIdv
Live Meditation
This session will include a live meditation followed by Q&A regarding mediation and its effects on the mind & body.
Presented by: Dr. Donald Moss
Recording Access Password: h8*T96s2
Keynote Address - "Love in the Time of Corona: Historicity, Epoch and Nearness, and the Quest to Become more Human Today."
To live at this time in the history of the world and its people, is to wake up in a crucible of fragility, when all the world struggles for a future in the face of an undiscriminating pandemic that brings a discriminating world to its knees. How does one engage with such a reality, not as a matter of theory, but as a matter of the lived realities of people who have little choice but to love, and therefore also hate, differently. What does it mean to be more human today? What are the intersects of and interstices between your life and the histories of the world and its people? How will the new distances emerging in today's post-corona world define proximities? Drawing in broad strokes with socio-cultural and psychoanalytical analysis, and transformative pedagogies of the global South, the session will explore notions of history, of in-betweenness as identity and the praxis of freedom at a time when the each stranger seems an intimate threat - an attempt to think through what love must look like in this time of corona.
Presented by: Rudi Buys, Executive Dean at Cornerstone Institute in South Africa
Recording Access Password: m3^Y!2.o
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=10tbNIZgHlbQzRtuQlhd8sl_gZiH1vFZZ
The New Normal: A View from South Africa
This GLOBE Talk series provides a peek into today in the life of those around the globe. Learn about crisis response, mental health, cultural distinctions, and daily life in South Africa today.
Presented by: Kari Prince
Recording Access Password: B4^?#+j?
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CyuaErad4cT-_YnpnwToGiX-IQIb_yNb
*Switzerland Tour: Understanding Cultural Assumptions that have Helped Shape Western Culture
*CEU Eligible Session
Zurich Switzerland sits at the crossroads of Europe and as such, has a long history of intimate connection with its neighbors. This presentation will explore the ways in which Switzerland has developed into a country that has managed accomplish its ideal of “unity, not uniformity”. In addition, this presentation will focus on the Zurich Study Abroad program on “Spirituality and Addiction Treatment” that explores the ideas of Dr. Carl Jung and his influence on the understanding and treatment of substance use disorders.
Presented by: Dr. Melody Bacon
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1z9Xwgj0xruyoKR5h--IxZrGBwJRE2x6P
Greece: The Birth of Ethics
This session is a true, virtual walking tour of Greece. Dr. Liljedahl leads participants on this tour - covering history, education, culture, family, food, religion, and ethics - alongside virtual visits to important historical sites. Delve into the birth of ethics through this engaging tour of ancient Greece!
Presented by: Dr. Erika Liljedahl
Recording Access Password: E1%*l0g0
Presentation: https://prezi.com/vmxopu14-hq-/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
The Intersection of the Finnish & US Culture: Academic Blog Presentation
Jennifer and Mattika are Doctoral students at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, currently enrolled in the Power of One - Finland study abroad course. Their presentation will highlight an overview of Finland, what they have learned this term, and their perceptions of academic blogs.
Presented by: Jennifer Howze-Owens & Mattika Davis
Recording Access Password: r3*+9#I*
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TZMpE758L7EPLVDHydzLd6JIgf66Na1o
Virtual Speed Networking
Join us for a breakout session in virtual speed networking. Meet other GEO Summit attendees and expand your professional & personal network, virtually!
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wuHiwkH415s1hF6_TBzJKxXiimAUXmBl
Family Dynamics: Overcrowding Amongst the Poor
Hotel Hope Ministries has been receiving abandoned babies since 2009, providing a safe haven and interim care, until their adoption into a “forever home” is complete. Oliver Quambusch, Founder of Hotel Hope, will share with us the realities of life in the overcrowded and poverty-stricken township of Alexandra, Johannesburg South Africa, and the dynamics responsible for the many unplanned pregnancies.
Presented by: Oliver Quambush
Recording Access Password: f5?x&+b!
Hotel Hope Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76a0pIgYmQ
Coffee Chat - Virtual Volunteerism
This coffee chat will be an informal discussion around the rise of the virtual volunteer & ways to give back globally in our new situations. The discussion will revolve around the question, "How are you continuing to be a (virtual) global agent of change?" Ideas and projects to be shared from all participants!
Presented by: TCS Global Engagement
Recording Access Password: u4+ww9LC
*Virtual Volunteering links can be found in the "Resources" section below.
The New Normal: A View from China
This GLOBE Talk series provides a peek into today in the life of those around the globe. Learn about crisis response, mental health, cultural distinctions, and daily life in China today.
Presented by: Cindie Zhou
Recording Access Password: C6&pM8t%
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PllD1oaTlOcO0thfm5P16SWymVyFgzAj
*What It Means to be Human: Transcending Cultural Barriers Through Dream Analysis
*CEU Eligible Session
Even though dreams are common to every human being, for most of us they are often strange and mysterious. This workshop will review the basic ideas of dream analysis held by Carl Jung and will take you, step-by-step, through some of the ways you can work with your own dreams. We will explore the Dr. Jung’s psychology and its basis in human experience that both derives from and transcends place and culture.
Presented by: Dr. Melody Bacon
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1R-cqjKRuKQ2xW31iQ76Ds3ku_kuRjk72
Zurich Student Service Learning Project: Giving Back Globally
Kristi Creed is a Doctoral student in the Applied Clinical Psychology Program at TCSPP. Kristi is currently enrolled in the Switzerland Power of One Study Abroad course and will showcase her Service Learning Presentation focusing on psychoeducation, spirituality, shadow work/dream work, and 12-step questionnaire on Spirituality. Kristi will also explore how mindfulness solutions can help patients and clinicians.
Presented by: Kristi Creed
Recording Access Password: d4!.3*$2
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HFcSwSkUEWQI2amRClu8X89wwtDuEmME
*Aging Successfully in Mexico: Into the Psycho-social Conditions for Aging Positively in Contexts of Social Adversity
*CEU Eligible Session
As the worldwide population is undergoing a demographic transition, concerns around aging have increased. While many scientific studies show the coexistence of contrasting representations of older adults as either frail or vigorous, in developing countries they tend to highlight mostly the negative effects of aging in contexts of social adversity. In this session, we will critically discuss how the theoretical definitions of what it means to age “successfully” or “positively” are playing a role in those observations and the need for context-specific approaches. To support that claim, we will present partial results of an ongoing study about the psychosocial conditions of older adults in Mexico.
Presented by: Dr. Gustavo Morelos Padilla
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WZBqArt79_aKHfdf6zNSa4UD8pqqe7Ca
Developing Professionally during Global Uncertainty
Join TCSPP's Director & Assistant Director of Career Services for a presentation on professional development in uncertain times - including best practices, innovative ways to career preparation, career services resources and discussion on the challenges & opportunities currently faced in career advancement.
Presented by: Charles Kelley & Elke Hardt
Recording Access Password: g9^z6iD&
Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IR0q_D2zSdxvR_lWCcBmNAxJ6dYeJq_h
Resources
Downloadable GEO Summit Itinerary:
- Find below a downloadable PDF itinerary for each day of the GEO Summit. Zoom links to each session included.
Virtual Volunteer Resources:
- The Rise of the Virtual Volunteer: https://thriveglobal.com/stories/the-coronavirus-and-the-rise-of-the-virtual-volunteer/
- Amnesty International: Decoders - Join a global network of digital volunteers helping us research and expose human rights violations.
- Translators Without Borders: https://translatorswithoutborders.org/volunteer/ – (Primarily for those fluent in more than one language)
- UN Volunteers: https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en
- Volunteer Match: https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/virtual
- The Chicago School Online Opportunities: https://my.thechicagoschool.edu/community/studentresources/communitypartnerships/Pages/Online-Opportunities.aspx
- Illinois Science & Technology Institute: https://www.istcoalition.org/ - Virtual research mentorship programs for high schoolers
- Love for the Elderly: https://lovefortheelderly.org/letters - Write letters of hope for the elderly
- Volunteering Opportunities for Counselors:
- http://www.counselingpsychology.org/volunteer-opportunities
- https://giveanhour.org/
- LEAP School in South Africa: https://www.backabuddy.co.za/champion/project/leap-fighting-poverty - Donations are greatly appreciated.
- Domestic Violence Project Inc. (DVPI): https://www.dvpi.org/ - Donations are appreciated and their Amazon Wishlist can be found on their facebook page here.
- All for Good: https://www.allforgood.org/ - Find opportunities to volunteer near you
Career Development Resources:
- GoinGlobal: GoinGlobal is a fantastic resource for those interested in working internationally. More information regarding GoinGlobal will be discussed during the session, "Developing Professionally During Global Uncertainty." Check out upcoming sessions on working abroad through the link below:
- https://online.goinglobal.com/training/students-alumni
- IIE: Research on IIE the survey and report about how studying abroad has a direct impact on skills needed by employers.
- https://www.iie.org/employability
- Developing New Skills, online platforms for learning include:
- edX, Coursera, Udemy, Open Learn, Udacity, LinkedIn Learning
- Interview Steam: https://thechicagoschool.interviewstream.com/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2f - Online Virtual Interviewing Platform
- FlexJobs: https://www.flexjobs.com - Online Job Platform
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Thank you for joining us for this exciting new adventure in virtual global engagement!
