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Understanding Conflict: Student Workshop. Postponed

School of Graduate Studies Room 101, 65 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Postponed! Please check back for other workshops in the coming months. This workshop helps participants understand how conflict escalates, explains the meaning of polarities and paradoxes in conflict, and offers models on how to better understand conflict, whether the conflict is incident or issue based. Participants will be provided with opportunities to examine conflict cases […]

Having Difficult Conversations: Student Workshop

This workshop will be facilitated by Aziza Kajan, Director, and Lauren Pais, Case Coordinator. This workshop offers participants a step-by-step guide to having difficult conversations. Participants will review the reasons why we typically avoid difficult or uncomfortable conversations, and why we should try having them instead. As participants are lead through our approach to navigating […]

Free

Having Difficult Conversations: Faculty Workshop

This workshop will be facilitated by Aziza Kajan, Director, and Lauren Pais, Case Coordinator. This workshop offers participants a step-by-step guide to having difficult conversations. Participants will review the reasons why we typically avoid difficult or uncomfortable conversations, and why we should try having them instead. As participants are lead through our approach to navigating […]

Free

Understanding Conflict: Student Workshop

This workshop will be taught by Aziza Kajan, Director, and Lauren Pais, Case Coordinator. This workshop helps participants understand how conflict escalates, explains the meaning of polarities and paradoxes in conflict, and offers models on how to better understand conflict, whether the conflict is incident or issue based. Participants will be provided with opportunities to […]

Free

Managing Interpersonal Challenges in the Supervisory Relationship: Student Workshop

(Previously “Understanding Conflict” and “Having Difficult Conversations”) This workshop will be taught by Aziza Kajan, Director, and Lauren Pais, Case Coordinator. Good supervision is a shared responsibility between a graduate student and their supervisor. You will need strong interpersonal communication skills to establish mutual expectations, hold each other to high academic standards, be self-reflective, and […]

Free

Managing Interpersonal Challenges in the Supervisory Relationship: Faculty Workshop

(Previously “Understanding Conflict” and “Having Difficult Conversations”) This workshop will be taught by Aziza Kajan, Director, and Lauren Pais, Case Coordinator. Good supervision is a shared responsibility between a graduate student and their supervisor. You will need strong interpersonal communication skills to establish mutual expectations, hold each other to high academic standards, be self-reflective, and […]

Free

Collaborative, Constructive, Considerate: Fostering Dialogue on Best Practices in Graduate Supervision in Canada

The Centre for Graduate Mentorship and Supervision (CGMS) will be hosting a panel discussion for York University's 60th Anniversary Graduate Supervision Conference. This one-day fully online Graduate Supervision Conference is geared specifically for graduate supervisors. Registration is free and is now open.For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.yorku.ca/gradstudies/grad-supervision-conference/.

Developing and Maintaining a Productive Supervisory Relationship

This workshop will be jointly led by Jane Freeman, Director, GCAC, and Aziza Kajan, Director, Centre for Graduate Mentorship and Supervision.  Doctoral students' working relationships with their supervisor can have profound impacts on their experiences of writing a doctoral dissertation. In this workshop, we will reflect on this important relationship. We will discuss strategies for […]

Best Practices and Recommendations for Developing and Maintaining a Successful Supervisory Relationship: Student Workshop

Facilitated by Aziza Kajan, Director, Centre for Graduate Mentorship and Supervision and Lauren Pais, Case Coordinator, Centre for Graduate Mentorship and Supervision.The SGS Supervision Guidelines is a document that will help you as a graduate student understand best practices in graduate supervision. Join us for this overview of the Supervision Guidelines including an overview of the roles and responsibilities […]

Free

How to Succeed as a Graduate Supervisor: Faculty Workshop

Facilitated by Prof John Peever, Professor, Cell & Systems Biology and Vice-Dean, Students, School of Graduate Studies, Prof Rene Harrison, Professor, Biological Sciences, and Vice-Dean Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies, UTSC, Prof Pamela Klassen, Professor & Chair, Department for the Study of Religion, Dr Michal Kasprzak, Assistant Director, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation/Teaching Assistants’ Training Program, and Aziza Kajan, Director, Centre for Graduate Mentorship […]

Free