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Reading series exploring migration through personal experiences, Bringing together academic scholarship and stories “from the heart”.
The Cynefin framework — developed by Dave Snowden — is one of the most useful thinking tools available for navigating complexity, yet it's often introduced only at a surface level. This session goes deeper. We'll move beyond the classic five-domain overview to explore how Cynefin can inform real decisions about facilitation, strategy, and organizational change — and sit with some of the framework's more challenging and generative edges.
A talk exploring systemic problems in men’s hockey culture in Canada and how national identity and masculinity shape calls for accountability and inclusion.
Discover how weighted greedy sparse recovery and differentiable deep‑unrolled models improve signal reconstruction, stability, and interpretability. This talk explores structured sparsity, explainable deep learning, and applications in medical signal analysis and function approximation.
Join our monthly seminar to hear Simone de Beauvoir Institute professors and affiliates discuss their research. A short Q&A will follow the discussion.
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.
A participatory workshop with Dr. Meaghan J. Girard exploring how social and material dimensions of AI shape long‑term organizational strategy and transformation.
Reading series exploring migration through personal experiences, Bringing together academic scholarship and stories “from the heart”.
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.
A lecture with public servant Felix Chu exploring GBA+ in Canada, drawing on his policy work in federal and provincial governments and feminist analysis.
Reading series exploring migration through personal experiences, Bringing together academic scholarship and stories “from the heart”.
Listen. Reflect. Come begin. Through conversation, photography, and a short documentary on the Women’s Boxing Club in Gaza, we will explore how sport and art speak to life itself.
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.
Listen. Reflect. Come begin. Through conversation, photography, and a short documentary on the Women’s Boxing Club in Gaza, we will explore how sport and art speak to life itself.
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.
Listen. Reflect. Come begin. Through conversation, photography, and a short documentary on the Women’s Boxing Club in Gaza, we will explore how sport and art speak to life itself.
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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