DJS Coalition Series
The DJS Coalition is a COMMUNITY of Lutes who COMMIT to continuing their LEARNING about diversity, justice, and sustainability and INTEGRATING it as a core value of LIVING and LEADING in diverse communities.
WHY PARTICIPATE IN THE DJS COALITION?
- Learning – Being an advocate for DJS includes a commitment to continuous learning. The DJS Coalition Series highlights interactive and experiential learning opportunities that aim to deepen our understanding of DJS. Recognizing that learning happens in various places, the program also honors the engagement PLU students are already participating in through work, internships, community service, and leadership experiences.
- Community – Building relationships is key to living and leading in diverse communities. The DJS Coalition Series will facilitate community building and networking opportunities that cultivate intentional relationships that both affirm and challenge us to be our best selves.
- Future – Employers are prioritizing individuals who have experience with and operate from a lens of diversity & inclusion, sustainability, and equity. The DJS Coalition Series will provide opportunities for practicing DJS skills that will be valuable in your community and workplaces. Additionally, the DJS Coalition Series can be listed on your resume and used as an experience to highlight in interviews.
WHEN CAN I JOIN?
The DJS Coalition is designed for students to join at any point in their PLU journey. The CYMK* Spectrum offers a pathway for deepening one’s DJS leadership learning through graduation. After a student completes components of a track, they will be recognized for their accomplishment and invited to progress to a new color lens of DJS leadership learning. While each color is designed to be completed within an academic year, students are able to work towards recognition at their own pace.
| Foundations | Developing a personal definition of DJS leadership and commitment to continuous DJS leadership learning (yellow) |
| Interconnections | Critically reflecting on our identity and the interconnections between ourselves, others, and our environments (Magenta) |
| Systems | Examining the relationships between human and ecological systems (Cyan) |
| Advocacy | Practicing skills for living and leading in community (Black) |
*In the world of print media, all colors can be made using a combination of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black, commonly referred to as CYMK. We celebrate all colors, whether the color of your skin, the color of your sexuality, or the color of your culture, which signify what diversity, justice, and sustainability at PLU means and celebrate what makes us who we are, together and apart.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
DJS Coalition Series offers opportunities for students to reflect and engage DJS as a framework and core value of living and leading in diverse communities. Complete all of the following elements of the DJS Coalition Series to be recognized for your commitment to DJS leadership learning.
DJS LEADERSHIP LEARNING EXPERIENCE REFLECTION
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Any experience is an opportunity to reflect on DJS leadership learning including our families, communities, work, and classroom. After participating in a DJS leadership learning experience reflect on your DJS learning through the lens of one of the DJS Leadership Learning Attributes utilizing the 5 R’s of Reflection. Complete 4 reflections, each focusing on a different DJS Leadership Learning Attribute.
Appreciating Difference
Experiencing people and environments different than our own requires us us to further understand ourselves while learning how to live and lead in our diverse communities
Embracing complexity:
The challenges of our lifetime are complicated (and so are the people surrounding them) and require us to look deeper into issues so we can recognize challenges and solutions beyond the binary.
Building Connections
Community requires cultivating intentional relationships that affirm and challenge us. This work is ongoing and a process which we trust will bring us deeper in relationship along the journey.
Enacting Change
Sustainable change requires a commitment to building relationships in order to shift old and co-create new systems so that all can thrive.
Wellbeing
Wellbeing requires the continuous practice of living in balance and harmony with ourselves and our environments.
The 5R framework for reflection will guide you through Reporting, Responding, Relating, Reasoning, and Reconstructing to make sense of a learning experience.
The 5 stages are:
- Reporting of the context of the experience
- Responding to the experience (observations, feelings, thoughts, etc.)
- Relating the experience to knowledge and skills you already have
- Reasoning about the significant factors/theory to explain the experience
- Reconstructing your practice by planning future actions for a similar experience
DJS COALITION COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
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DJS Coalition Community Connection events focus on a DJS leadership learning topic, encourage DJS leadership skill practice, and engage a community reflection. There are multiple DJS Coalition Community Connections events hosted throughout the year. Chose from the programs listed here to meet this experience. (Select “view all events” to see all of your options)
CYMK SUMMATIVE REFLECTION
COMPLETE 1
We are able to make meaning of and draw connections between experiences and invite space for the development of solutions, partnerships, and ways of engaging that prioritizes the interconnectedness of DJS. This summative reflection will tie together the DJS Leadership Learning Attribute to your CYMK Track theme.
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