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Fall 2021 Group Fitness Classes

GW Campus Recreation is offering virtual and in-person group fitness for GW-affiliated students, faculty, and staff members in the fall 2021 semester. Whether you enjoy fitness from the comfort of your home or want to get back to our in-person fitness community, we are excited to reconnect with you! 

Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World

The Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the Woodrow Wilson International Center will host Benjamin Young to launch his new book, Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World as the eighth edition of the Sigur Center's 2021 New Books in Asian Studies series. The webinar begins at 4:00 PM EDT.

JSTD Fleischman Lecture: "A Jewish Community in a Slave Society"

The largest Jewish communities in the early modern Americas emerged in slave societies. Of these, the most unusual was that of the Dutch colony of Suriname, just north of Brazil. There, Jews were among the earliest white settlers, and could hence negotiate for religious liberty, their own court, and ownership of a communally-owned village, located on the edge of the rainforest.

Anxiety Toolbox

Anxiety Toolbox is a three-session virtual workshop for the many students who are interested in gaining readily accessible skills for managing anxiety. Through the workshop, students gain understanding about anxiety and learn skills to recognize and better address symptoms. Each workshop is 45 minutes to an hour long, and the information builds on material from previous sections.

BRIDGE Workshop

BRIDGE (Building Relationship Intimacy & Dialogue Effectiveness) focuses on identifying ways to foster healthy relationships via self-monitoring, effective communication, and conflict resolution skills. The three-session virtual workshop is divided into content that builds upon itself. The sessions include modules dedicated to help you:

Careers in International Consulting: Pathways & Prospects

This panel-style event engages with accomplished professionals from the African diaspora with experience working with prominent consulting firms in international development and the financial sector.

Fighting Food Insecurity at GW: A Session for Faculty & Staff

This session addresses the issue of food insecurity among GW students. The session will raise participants' awareness of the services and resources in place to help members of the GW community who are food-insecure, especially how individuals may sign up to access The Store, GW's food pantry, and how faculty and staff can get involved.

Participants will:

Mindful Self-Compassion

Mindful Self-Compassion incorporates evidence based tools and supportive exploration to promote emotional strength and resilience through compassion. Each virtual workshop is 45 minutes to one hour. Attendance is expected at each of the three workshop sessions, as the information builds on material from previous sessions.

Israel's Impossible Coalition

Ofer Zalzberg explores the unprecedented alliance of Arab and Jewish religious conservatives with secular parties that ended Binyamin Netanyahu's 12 years in power. Zalzberg will trace the evolution of cooperation between the current government's diverse factions, its political potential and implications for Israeli society and Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy.

Well-being Skills Series

We know GW students are busy. We also know that students can gain benefits from attending just a few short well-being workshops, so we created the Well-being Skills Series.

"Ethical Leadership: Strategies to Ensure That Your Virtue is Not a Surprise" with Dr. Brian Ray

All leaders should be able to effectively identify ethical dilemmas and develop courses of action that promote an organization's stated values.  

In addition to these important skill sets, leaders must have the moral courage to act when confronted with ethical dilemmas.  

Dr. Ray will discuss techniques to develop and promote these valuable skill sets, each of which is vitally important in today's turbulent world.

Managing Depression

Managing Depression is a three-session virtual workshop designed to help students increase their understanding of depression and provide them with the skills to recognize and manage their depressive symptoms. Each workshop is 45 minutes to one hour, and the information builds on material from previous sections.

City Managers: Local Leaders on the Front Lines of COVID Recovery

We’ve heard a lot about the tussles over COVID recovery strategies in Congress. But what does recovery look like for the government leaders spearheading the effort on the local level?

New Paths for U.S.-Taiwan Ties

Cemented by decades of positive engagement and shared history, the United States and Taiwan enjoy a very robust relationship that spans a multitude of public and foreign policy issues. Important to these efforts are the people-to-people ties between researchers, scholars, and practitioners that explore new avenues for cooperation and collaboration between both sides.

Anxiety Toolbox

Anxiety Toolbox is a three-session virtual workshop for the many students who are interested in gaining readily accessible skills for managing anxiety. Through the workshop, students gain understanding about anxiety and learn skills to recognize and better address symptoms. Each workshop is 45 minutes to an hour long, and the information builds on material from previous sections.

Chemistry Seminar: Maegan Dailey, Graduate Student, Besson Lab

Online and In-person

Boo Bash

GW Late Night is back with Boo Bash, our annual Halloween party! Join us for free pizza, a Silent Disco, karaoke, pumpkin painting, Esports, and more!

Toward Health Equity in Brain Aging: Nontraditional Data Sources and Innovative Tools

Join the GW Institute for Brain Health and Dementia in the first session of our seminar series focused on Addressing Dementia Across the Public Health Spectrum. 

Anxiety Toolbox

Anxiety Toolbox is a three-session virtual workshop for the many students who are interested in gaining readily accessible skills for managing anxiety. Through the workshop, students gain understanding about anxiety and learn skills to recognize and better address symptoms. Each workshop is 45 minutes to an hour long, and the information builds on material from previous sections.

BRIDGE Workshop

BRIDGE (Building Relationship Intimacy & Dialogue Effectiveness) focuses on identifying ways to foster healthy relationships via self-monitoring, effective communication, and conflict resolution skills. The three-session virtual workshop is divided into content that builds upon itself. The sessions include modules dedicated to help you:

Mindful Self-Compassion

Mindful Self-Compassion incorporates evidence based tools and supportive exploration to promote emotional strength and resilience through compassion. Each virtual workshop is 45 minutes to one hour. Attendance is expected at each of the three workshop sessions, as the information builds on material from previous sessions.

LEAP Event: "Leading with Empathy" with Rebecca Wallace

Many organizations continue to promote traditional leadership qualities such as assertiveness, strength, competitiveness, and infallibility. 

As younger generations move into leadership roles and gender disparities at the top of organizations narrow, what place do empathy, kindness, and collaboration have in the future of leadership?

How can younger leaders marry the best of traditional principles with a more

Well-being Skills Series

We know GW students are busy. We also know that students can gain benefits from attending just a few short well-being workshops, so we created the Well-being Skills Series.

Managing Depression

Managing Depression is a three-session virtual workshop designed to help students increase their understanding of depression and provide them with the skills to recognize and manage their depressive symptoms. Each workshop is 45 minutes to one hour, and the information builds on material from previous sections.

Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine with Rebecca Stein and Imani Cheers

In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.