Finally, A Safe Space for Academics to Learn AI Without Shame or Judgment
A 2-Day Intensive Workshop for Professors, Researchers & Graduate Students Ready to Explore AI on Their Own Terms
No judgment. No virtue signaling. Just practical and critical AI engagement for your academic work.
October 25-26, 2025 | 11am-5pm ET Day 1, 11am-4pm ET Day 2
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WORKSHOP DETAILS
When: October 25-26, 2025
- Day 1: Saturday, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern
- Day 2: Sunday, 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM Eastern
Where: Live on Zoom (link sent 24 hours before) Recordings available for 30 days
Investment: Early Bird: $300 (save $49) - Ends October 15th Regular: $349
What's Included:
- 11 hours of live instruction
- Small group breakout and individualized support
- Personalized troubleshooting
- Workshop materials and templates
- 60-day recording access
- Community invitation
Limited Seats: Maximum 30 participants for personalized attention
AFTER You Register: You'll receive a needs analysis form to customize examples to your discipline
WHY THIS WORKSHOP IS DIFFERENT
This Isn't Your Typical Tech-Bro AI Training
You've seen them everywhere - AI 'gurus' promising to 10x your productivity with ChatGPT hacks. But simply claiming efficiency and less time use only contributes to toxic productivity culture. As academics, we need critical, thoughtful, and ethical engagement with AI - not an argument to do more work faster. That is a recipe for burnout and fatigue.
WHAT YOU WON'T FIND HERE
Toxic productivity and hustle culture
AI-assisted research bypassing critical reflection and thoughtfulness
AI assisted pedagogy bypassing critical learning experiences
Argument for using AI driven by time saving and efficiency gains
Plagiarism techniques disguised as "prompting" or "editing."
Tech worship without critical thinking
One-size-fits-all templates
WHAT YOU WILL FIND HERE
Ethical frameworks for academic AI use
Real applications for YOUR specific research and teaching
A judgment-free community of fellow academics
Agency over your own AI practice
Built on 20+ years of trauma informed, inclusive, disruptive to dysfunctional thinking of various systems, this workshop honors your intelligence while critically expanding your technological capabilities.
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What You Will be Walking Away With After These Two Days
After this immersive experience, you will:
- Understanding how AI generates responses
- Create your own framework for customized prompt generations
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Receive a personalized prompt library for YOUR specific academic needs
- Engage in an ethical decision-making framework for when and how to use AI
- Create an active AI workspace supporting your current project and build a heuristic for your future ones
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Confident in engaging with AI conversations without shame or ignorance
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Adopt practical strategies for integrating AI while maintaining academic rigor
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Set up custom workflows for YOUR unique learning needs (i.e. ADHD friendly, trauma informed, etc.)
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Create, test, and revise customized instruction set in ChatGPT to maintain consistency and continuation with less errors and hallucinations
- Create, test, and revise customized project space in ChatGPT to maintain continuity, consistency, and decrease chances of errors
No Cookie-Cutter Solutions: Every participant leaves with AI working for THEIR specific needs - whether you're in humanities, sciences, social sciences, or interdisciplinary fields.
Curriculum
YOUR 2-DAY TRANSFORMATION
Day 1
Foundation & Authority (Saturday, Oct 25 | 11am-5pm ET)
Morning Session (11am-1pm): AI Architecture Deep Dive
- How OpenAI actually generates outputs (no tech-bro mystification)
- Understanding completion routes and probability mechanics
- Why narrowing the probabilistic tunnel matters
- Hands-on ChatGPT setup with privacy configurations
- Personal customization with live support
Midday Break (1-1:30pm)
- Movement session (5 min)
- Q&A to address technical questions (25 min)
Afternoon Session (1:30-5pm): Establishing Your Authority
- 4-6 entry prompts that establish YOUR expertise, not AI's
- Understanding signal vs structure dynamics
- Individual worksheet completion with breakout room support
- Real-time testing and troubleshooting
- End with YOUR personalized prompt strategy
Day 2
Applied Practice (Sunday, Oct 26 | 11am-4pm ET)
Morning (11am-12pm): Project Space Architecture
- Setting up ChatGPT project spaces for different purposes
- Multi-chat coordination strategies
- Organizing your AI workspace
Afternoon (12-4pm): Real Project Application
- Bring YOUR actual project (literature review, grading system, research analysis, etc.)
- Create a project space within ChatGPT that will maintain consistency, continuity, and accuracy
- Create customized instructions for your project
- Add relevant documents to your project (that are not sensitive or confidential)
- Create a prompt-series to prime ChatGPT to behave according to your preference
- Ongoing hands-on implementation with instructor support
- Test your prompt series and revise
- Choice of working in main ChatGPT chat threads and project spaces effectively
- Leave with AI actively supporting your real work
- Invitation to join the Global AI Consortium for continuous community building and professional development
Who is This For?
This Workshop Is For You If...
You're an academic who:
- Secretly uses ChatGPT but feels guilty about it
- Watches colleagues get publicly shamed for AI use while knowing it could help your work
- Feels like they are cheating or doing something bad if they use AI
- Wants to understand AI deeply, not just copy-paste prompts
- Needs ethical frameworks for using AI in research and teaching
- Is tired of tech-bros explaining AI without understanding academic contexts
- Values critical thinking over blind adoption or rejection
- Seeks community with other thoughtful AI explorers
This Is NOT For You If:
- You want plagiarism shortcuts
- You believe AI will replace human thinking
- You're comfortable with surface-level prompt templates
- You want to use AI to bypass reading and writing
- You're unaware of how AI can bypass critical learning skills
Perfect For:
- Scholars exploring AI for course design
- Graduate students navigating AI in dissertation work
- Researchers wanting AI support without compromising ethics
- Department heads creating AI policies
- Anyone in academia feeling left behind by AI evolution
Bottom line: If you're ready to engage AI with the same rigor you bring to your scholarship, this is your space.
Meet Your Instructor: Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya
I'm Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya
I bring 20+ years of finding criticality, ethics, trauma-informed, cultural situatedness to this AI exploration. As someone trained in instructional design and technology in my graduate program, I bring unpretentious ways of discussing technology integration without sacrificing your soul or agency. I am excellent at breaking complex ideas into actionable pieces without making it seem intimidating.
I am an award-winning professor with 100+ publications, who understands the unique challenges academics face when integrating new technologies.
Why Learn AI From Me?
- Created my own culturally situated theoretical framework, Par/Des(i) ontoepistemologies and six tenets that creates a responsiveness towards a community who craved this kind of representation in theorized spaces
- I design and create inclusive, trauma-informed learning spaces for neurodiverse thinkers
- I have been using AI in my personal and professional work, especially being sensitive to trauma, stress, overwhelm tat comes with the terrain of academic work.
- I am committed to agency over extraction in all technological engagement
My Approach: "I'm not here to make you an AI enthusiast. I'm here to give you independent choice over how you engage with these tools. No hype. No shame. Just clear understanding and ethical frameworks for YOUR academic journey."
This workshop emerges from the intersection of critical wisdom and technological evolution - designed for academics ready to engage both with integrity.
Frequently Asked Questions
You have questions? We have answers. Check out the questions below and if you're still sitting with more questions, do not suffer. Email Dr. Bhattacharya at [email protected]
I'm worried about being judged for using AI in my academic work. Is this really a safe space? ?
Can I share course info with a friend?
What if I can't attend live?
Will this work for my specific discipline?
Is this about replacing human thinking with AI?
What's the difference between this and free YouTube tutorials?
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Critical AI Literacy for Academics
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We admire your need to know everything. No shade, just recognizing how we are so alike.
Ready to Stop Hiding Your AI Curiosity?
The academic world is changing whether we engage or not. You can either:
- Keep using AI in secret, hoping you don't get called out
- Avoid it completely yet suspect your students are using it, journals are creating policies around AI, and you are not minimally familiar with the potentials and problems with AI. The problems you know about stem from broad talking points with minimal or shallow or no engagement with AI
- OR claim your agency and learn to engage ethically
This workshop is for academics choosing the third path.
Join us October 25-26 for the first AI workshop actually designed for academic minds.
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Still Unsure? This isn't about becoming an AI evangelist. It's about making informed, critical choices for YOUR academic journey. If you've read this far, you're ready.
Questions? Email [email protected]
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