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This panel brings together scholars, legal advocates, and community practitioners to explore how care ethics can be made actionable in trade policy.
This one-hour experiential workshop introduces simple, trauma-informed resourcing practices that support faculty wellbeing while enhancing inclusive teaching environments. Through brief somatic, reflective, and mind-body invitations, participants will explore ways to pause, regulate, and restore attention—skills that are increasingly essential in today’s academic contexts. Grounded in principles of choice, accessibility, and inclusion, the workshop highlights how small, adaptable practices can support diverse nervous systems in the classroom without adding to instructional load. Faculty will leave with practical tools to foster presence, psychological safety, and sustainable engagement for both themselves and their students
In this presentation, Martin Danyluk highlights how national security is used to justify ecocide and cultural erasure on Great Nicobar Island.
You are invited to explore Irish night culture in the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University as part of Nuit Blanche.
What does human flourishing truly mean beyond productivity, success, or well-being metrics? In this live, experiential workshop, Bhaskar Goswami invites participants into a guided inquiry that moves beyond ideas and into lived understanding. The session offers a rare chance to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with what genuinely allows humans to thrive. The workshop unfolds in three intentional phases. First, participants clarify human flourishing through a guided dyadic exchange that explores embodied, personal definitions of flourishing, both individually and collectively. Second, the group identifies what obstructs flourishing through an inquiry that surfaces internal and systemic patterns, assumptions, and pressures that quietly undermine vitality in our lives, work, and institutions. Third, the session concludes with a short, grounded practice that helps participants sense a clear and practical next step toward greater alignment, meaning, and aliveness. This is not a lecture. It is a participatory, reflective experience designed to cultivate clarity, presence, and insight in a short yet powerful format. Because the experience builds progressively, punctuality is essential. Ideal for educators, researchers, students, professionals, and leaders curious about flourishing as a lived reality, not just an abstract ideal.
This lecture presents insights from the international research project Beyond Seeing (2017–2018), initiated by the Goethe-Institut Paris in collaboration with ESMOD Berlin, Institut Français de la Mode (Paris), La Cambre (Brussels), and the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås, together with organizations for the blind and visually impaired.
The first Annual Vinesh Saxena Family Foundation Lecture with award-winning and best-selling author Monique Gray Smith. Monique will be speaking on the transformative and spiritual power of narratives and interaction.
Is AI the end of meaningful work or the catalyst for its rebirth? Mike James Ross examines how our understanding of labor has evolved and why AI threatens modern "meaning." Discover how to reclaim a deeper, human-centric sense of purpose and turn technological disruption into a path for professional flourishing.
Real transformation begins in the body. Steve Rio, co-founder of Enfold, explores the profound potential of psychedelics for lasting healing. His "Awakening to Life" framework integrates somatic modalities and Internal Family Systems-informed coaching to regulate the nervous system, providing a safety-focused roadmap to dissolving the ego and reclaiming deep inner freedom.
This presentation builds on existing work to ask how the transnational flows of materiality, expertise, and capital that accompany large-scale infrastructural development can transform rural communities situated along lines of hydropower transmission at a distance from power-generating rivers and dams themselves.
In an era of institutional strain, how we gather matters. Dr. Jessica Riddell introduces the "Hope Circuits" framework, reimagining organizations as ecosystems of possibility. Move beyond scarcity and crisis to design spaces that restore trust, widen agency, and center human and ecological flourishing—transforming simple gatherings into seeds of collective renewal.
When the world feels "on fire," presence is our most vital anchor. Aruni shares the practice of pacing your energy and leaning toward solace. Discover how to meet life’s turbulence with nonjudgmental awareness, moving from survival to a state of grace, kindness, and profound contentment.
Two-day event where QUESCREN research network and the wider community come together to explore, discuss, and advance research on English-speaking Quebec.
Turn on the news and you are flooded with news of ever-growing disagreements and conflict often erupting in violence. I argue that as society, we need to learn to deal constructively with differences in viewpoints. But how? As a scientist, I wondered if science could help. I will survey some of the pitfalls science can help us become aware of. I will also draw an outline of concrete steps we can take to have better disagreements. The ultimate hope is that this will help our societies thrive not in spite of, but because of our differences.
How often do you stop and listen to the words you use to describe your own life? We all live inside stories: some we chose, others we inherited, and many we wrote in survival mode without realizing it. These stories show up not in grand declarations but in the quiet metaphors of everyday speech: the walls we hit, the weight we carry, the paths we can't find. Far from being mere figures of speech, neuroscience shows that these metaphors are neurological signposts, they reflect how the brain makes meaning of experience and quietly shape our identity, emotions, and sense of what's possible. If that's true, then learning to hear your own metaphors is one of the most powerful things you can do for your life. Author of StoryJacking and Light Up: The Science of Coaching with Metaphors, Lyssa deHart is a Master Certified Coach and clinical social worker with over 25,000 hours of deep listening. In this session, she draws on neuroscience, narrative psychology, and decades of practice to show how the language you use every day scripts your choices and relationships in ways you don't see. You'll learn to slow down and notice the metaphors running beneath your everyday speech, and discover how shifting even one image can change how you feel, what you believe is possible, and how you relate to the people around you. You'll leave with practical tools to catch the stories you're telling yourself, rewrite the ones that no longer serve you, and embrace the lifelong journey of crafting a story worth living.
Gifted kids are like Ferraris: brilliant, powerful, and wired differently. But when every parenting book hands you advice designed for a Toyota, things keep breaking down. Master educator and gifted specialist Sarah Strouthopoulos draws on 25+ years of work with intense, sensitive children to reveal why conventional approaches backfire, and what actually helps these kids flourish. You'll walk away with a fresh lens on your child's big emotions, perfectionism, and intensity, as well as practical strategies to work with that wiring, not against it.
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