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The Renewals Workshop

  • Wellbeing
  • In-Person Workshop
  • 6 CE Hours

Description

Please join our award-winning facilitator, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, MSLS, as she leads a 6-hour workshop designed to help people and groups recognize, reconcile, and recover from dysfunctional organizational cultures and associated behaviors. The Renewals Workshop supports people who want to reduce and dismantle workplace behaviors, cultures, and systems that suppress accountability, humaneness, and belonging.

Centering library workers’ experiences, Kendrick’s morale studies reveal social, environmental, and systemic factors that impede welcoming workplaces and compromise organizations. Implications for ethics, collaboration, continuing education, and career mobility are also linked.

Through pre-event activities and on-site prompts, the Renewals Workshop offers attendees intentional opportunities to recognize, reflect, and consider recovery from associated well-being and/or career impacts.

Registration for this workshop is limited to 35 participants, so early registration is encouraged to reserve your spot.

This facilitated session will cover:

  • Causes, development, and impacts of low-morale experiences in library workplaces
  • Industrial norms and frameworks connected to low-morale experiences
  • Established and emerging countermeasures to reduce, interrupt, or minimize low-morale experiences and impacts
  • Introduction and application of community-building frameworks and self-preservation mindset and planning

Sample Agenda:

  • Hour 1: Introductions/Group Activity; Low-Morale Experience Background and Foundations; Study Q&A
  • Hour 2: Responses to the Low-Morale Experience; Organizational Characteristics; Values; Group or Individual Reflective Activity/Shareout
  • Hour 3: Factors and Enabling Systems of Low Morale (core and differentials); Industrial Frameworks; Case Study or Group Activity
  • Hour 4: Morning Review; Grounding/Somatic Activity; Introduction of Critical Hope Framework
  • Hour 5: Considering Countermeasures; Case Study, Creative Activity, or Group Activity; Skills Practice(s)
  • Hour 6: Review; Future-scaping; Q&A; Evaluation/Conclusion

Please note this is a sample agenda – the above outlined topics may shift to reflect improved practices and/or support workshop attendees.

Logistics:

This in-person workshop will be held at the OhioNet Town Hall meeting space, 550 Polaris Parkway, Westerville, OH 43082. Please note that this is a live event and will not be recorded.

Free parking is available on-site. Beverages will be served in the morning, and snacks will be provided throughout the day. A full lunch is included with the cost of registration. If you have any dietary restrictions, please enter your information in the following form: The Renewals Workshop Dietary Restrictions.

There will be several 10-minute breaks throughout the day, along with a 60-minute lunch break.

Presenters

Kaetrena Davis Kendrick Founder, Kendrick Consulting and Communications, LLC

The collective care leader for library workers, workplaces, and organizations, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick earned her M.S.L.S. from the historic Clark Atlanta University School of Library and Information Studies. Her research on low-morale experiences in libraries is recognized as groundbreaking and validating for library employees at all levels. In her daily and long-term work, Kendrick has transformed library programs, services, and culture via creativity, leadership, and advocacy. A practitioner of Critical Hope, Kendrick is committed to centering well-being, creativity, possibility, and empathy in the workplace, and promoting career clarity and rejuvenation to workers. In 2019, Kendrick was named the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Academic/Research Librarian of the Year, and she is the 2024-2025 Follett Chair with the Dominican University School of Information Studies. Learn more about her work.