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This mental health and wellness program is dedicated to creating a safe space for students to process various traumatic events occurring around the world. Whether one is directly or indirectly impacted by any global event, this will be a space for processing and understanding the nuances between direct traumatization, vicarious traumatization, bystander effects, and compassion fatigue, as well as for discussing supportive grounding and coping skills. The program will aim to provide a space for dialogue about the emotional and mental health impacts individuals are experiencing related to world events, and to help link students with mental health services for in-depth psychological processing. (This will not be a space to debate socio-political viewpoints on events, but rather an opportunity for students of any and all intersectional identities and viewpoints to discuss the psychological impacts of current global events). Time and location details for specific sessions of this program to be announced by Emmons Wellness Center.

October 7, 2024 (students, faculty, and staff)

The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life (ORSL) will be hosting several events to support all members of the Occidental community, as we reflect on the passage of one year since October 7, 2023. All events will be held at Herrick Chapel on October 7, 2024:

• 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.: The labyrinth will be available for all faculty, staff, and students to engage in mindful walking or contemplative prayer as a way of advocating for peace. 
• 12:30 p.m.: Rev. Dr. Susan Young will lead a candle-lighting ceremony to promote peace, healing, and community. 
• From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Herrick Chapel will be open for peace prayers, offering a space for members of our community from various religions to come and pray.

Additional community healing spaces centering our Jewish and Muslim communities will be held in the afternoon. Ben Greenberg, Associate Director of Jewish Student Life, and Tariq Ali, Muslim Student Life Coordinator, will each facilitate community spaces where students may engage in dialogue and collective care with their Jewish and Muslim communities, respectively.

September 26, 2024 (students) - Nurturing Allyship: Explaining Antisemitism and Jewish Identity

will lead this program for students, exploring the historical context of antisemitism as a systemic bigotry, what it is, and how it works Students will leave with an understanding of anti-Jewish themes and how antisemitism operates, as well as a greater capacity to help others recognize the complex identities and lived experiences of the Jewish people and the skills to identify anti-Jewish language, ideas, and harm.

Spring 2024

March 6, 2024 (faculty and staff) - Addressing and Challenging Bias on Campus
Nick Daily will lead this session for the Oxy Community and will explore relevant history and contemporary bias dynamics within the U.S. education system, engage in personal identity development and reflection, and can apply these learnings to the Oxy Community past, present, and future. Additional details and registration information will be shared at a later date.

February 13, 2024 - Challenging Islamophobia and Antisemitism
Time: Noon - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Lower Herrick
Zack Ritter, Ph.D., and Marium Mohiuddin will lead this in-person opportunity for Oxy students to gain an understanding of the historic antecedents of misunderstandings and myths directed toward Muslim and Jewish folks. Participants will also gain clarity around not only the histories of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hate, but tools and techniques for disrupting Islamophobic and Antisemitic behaviors. Additional details and registration information will be shared at a later date.

January 17, 2024 -
This opportunity is one of 's many free bystander intervention webinars that are open to the general public.

January 25, 2024 -
This opportunity is one of 's many free bystander intervention webinars that are open to the general public.

January 25, 2024 - Listening Session
This facilitated listening session creates an important opportunity for community dialogue. Registration links have been shared directly with students, faculty and staff.

January 26, 2024 -
This opportunity is one of 's many free bystander intervention webinars that are open to the general public.

January 26, 2024 - Listening Session
This facilitated listening session creates an important opportunity for community dialogue. Registration links have been shared directly with students, faculty and staff.