Micro-Seminar: Cultivating Healthy Relationships: Key to a Positive College Experience PART ONE

Micro-Seminars have two parts. Attendance to both parts is required. Registering for the PART ONE session will automatically enroll you in the PART TWO session on Friday.

Part 1: Thursday, August 22, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm (PST)
Part 2: Friday, August 23, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:30 am (PST)

Cultivating Healthy Relationships: Key to a Positive College Experience aims to educate students on the importance of cultivating healthy relationships, with a focus on minimizing gender and power-based harm on college campuses. This micro-seminar will provide practical strategies and foster discussions on creating an inclusive and respectful environment. The context of this seminar is set against the backdrop of increasing awareness about the impact of gender and power dynamics on personal and community well-being in educational institutions. By the end of this seminar, students should have a deeper understanding of how to build and maintain healthy relationships, recognize and address gender and power-based harm, and feel empowered to contribute to a positive college experience.

Expected learning outcomes:
1. Identify the characteristics of healthy relationships and recognize unhealthy dynamics.
2. Understand the influence of power and gender on interpersonal interactions.
3. Develop strategies to promote respectful and equitable relationships.
4. Apply conflict resolution and communication skills to real-life scenarios.
5. Create personal action plans to contribute to a positive and inclusive college environment.
6. Name specific resources to prevent, respond to, and learn about gender and power-based harm at USC.

Day 1: Foundations of Healthy Relationships and Understanding Power Dynamics
- Understanding Healthy Relationships
- Exploration of Gender-and Power-Based Harm Dynamics
- Case Study Analysis

Day 2: Practical Skills and Action Planning
- Empathy, Communication, and Conflict Resolution Workshop
- Developing Personal Action Plans
- Resources and Opportunities for Further Learning

Target audience: The seminar is intended for anyone interested in cultivating healthy and respectful relationships, seeking to enhance their interpersonal skills and contribute to a positive campus culture, and curious to understand and address gender and power dynamics within the educational environment.

Lead By: Professor Sarah Randazzo

Sarah Randazzo (She/Her) is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Keck School of Medicine of USC. Her clinical specialty centers on the experiences of gender and power-based harm, with a focus on relational and sexual violence. She has six years of experience as a mental health clinician, speaker, and professor of Counseling Psychology. Her new course PBHS 307 "Dynamics of Power and Gender-Based Violence" will be offered by the Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences Department in Spring 2025.

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