Safe Space: A Monthly Drop-in Session
Thursday, September 24| 4:00 p.m.
Navigating our mental health and personal well-being isn't always smooth, especially while balancing our day-to-day work responsibilities. In our monthly 45-minute drop-in session, we're creating a welcoming space to talk about how workplace stress and daily pressures impact us, our teams, and our sense of connection. Where do you turn for support and balance when things feel demanding? How can we practice self-care and thoughtfully look out for one another as a team?
Non-Native English Speakers Support Association (NESSA)
Last Wednesday of every other month at 11 a.m. | Next meeting is September 30
NESSA, which stands for "Non-Native English Speakers Support Association," is our identity-based staff support organization. In this group, we welcome multilingual speakers, native English speakers, and English language learners who are interested in supporting, mentoring, and learning from each other. Zoom link
Our group wanted to share an amazing presentation and resource created by Padma Vemula, Language Beyond Borders
DEIB @ 3 | Asynchronous Ed
This month, for our asynchronous education, we're listening to 93: The Devil Emails at Midnight: Unmasking Bad Bosses & Broken Systems with Mita Mallick. In this episode of Embracing Only: Workplace Culture & Career Development for BIPOC Leaders, bestselling author Mita Mallick explores 13 "devil boss" archetypes drawn from her new book, examining how pressure and stress can turn well-intentioned leaders into harmful ones, and what it takes to build workplace cultures where accountability, coaching, and genuine inclusion replace burnout and broken trust. As IT professionals working within complex institutional systems, this conversation offers language and self-reflection tools for recognizing these patterns in ourselves and our teams.
bIT Weekly Meditation | Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m.
Our amazing colleague, Janhavi Deshpande, will be offering a monthly guided meditation practice! Some of you may remember this practice pre-pandemic, and we thought it would be a perfect time to bring this practice back to our community. Zoom link for meditation.