Doing Good Work and Living Your Dreams
In this workshop, we’ll consider how important it is to nurture ourselves even as we continue to work for social justice. We’ll consider ways to think of ourselves, our work, and the communities we’re building as long-term investments. How can we avoid getting caught up in short-term thinking and cultures of urgency that lead to burnout and sap our joy? We’ll reflect on some of our larger sources of nourishment, delight, and dreams. We’ll consider how we might reconfigure some priorities—including at work–to better set ourselves up for more of all that good stuff. And we’ll strategize about how to build in structures of support and strengthen social connections. Those connections, in addition to helping us break out of our ruts, have fun, and thrive, are also the basis of nurturing the kinds of communities we need to build for long-term social change.
This part II Lunch and Learn will be in person
GLADC is pleased to offer a Lunch & Learn PLUS opportunity this February, with Dr. Jodi Vandenberg-Daves (JVD Consulting, LLC). Consider taking this two-part lunch to invest in yourself.
As we work towards a better world, most of us struggle along the way to avoid burnout, to nurture ourselves and our dreams, and to battle high expectations of ourselves. For any of us, but especially for those of us who hold marginalized identities, perfectionism, and imposter syndrome can complicate our efforts to maintain balance, celebrate our accomplishments, connect to others, and even to align our priorities in the ways we’d like through various chapters of our work and life journeys. Join us for this two-part Lunch and Learn.
Dr. Jodi Vandenberg-Daves
Dr. Jodi Vandenberg-Daves is a coach, consultant, writer, professional development trainer, and former professor. With a doctorate in History, Dr. Vandenberg-Daves served as Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse until 2023. Her current career coaching and consulting work build on more than twenty-five years of experience in higher education, non-profit leadership, authorship, teaching, and mentoring. Jodi brings research-based and real-world applicable strategies to women of diverse backgrounds who want to take ownership of their career journeys. She also helps organizations build a more diverse leadership pipeline, create cultures of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and value the work of caregivers and all those doing the work of emotional labor and social transformation. Dr. Vandenberg-Daves spent three years of service as the Executive Director, Greater La Crosse Area Diversity Council (2015-2018). She currently teaches an online course, “Unlocking Your Leadership Potential” and teaches with UW-Madison Continuing Studies. She is the author of two history books, including Modern Motherhood: An American History (Rutgers University Press, 2014) and a book of poems. She is currently working on a book titled Work That Matters: A Guide to Careering for Idealistic Women.