Date & time
Monday, June 16, 2025
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Workshops & seminars
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Dreaming Sustainable and Just Futures
In the Making: Holding the Uncertain as We Dream and Tend (C-Change Conference)
Cost
This event is free.
Website
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
4TH SPACE
Accessible location
Yes
An immersive, co-creative workshop where we will creatively and collaboratively envision sustainable and just futures. Through guided processes inspired by creative arts therapies, participants will engage in collective dreaming to explore possibilities for what a flourishing future could be, and how we might experience it.
While affirming the complex situations the climate crisis is creating, and all the range of ways we may feel in response, this is an opportunity to imagine transformative paths forward. No prior experience in the arts is necessary, just bring your openness to creativity and collaboration.
How can you participate? Join us in person by registering here or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting.
Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca
Speakers
Heather McLaughlin
Heather McLaughlin, MA, ATRB-BC, RMFT-S, is an art therapist, couple and family therapist, and psychotherapist; an assistant professor and the program coordinator for Concordia's Art Therapy program and Director of the Concordia Arts in Health Centre. Her work explores creative and systemic approaches to community care and climate action.
Jessica Bleuer
Jessica Bleuer Ph.D. (she/her/ella) Assistant Professor in the Drama Therapy program at Concordia University, where she is also the director of the Ecological crisis and response/ability working group, with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture. Her climate work is motivated by all of her identities, as a Latina Canadian with family in the global south, a lover of nature and outdoor play, and perhaps with most motivating urgency, as a the mother to young child.
Katrina Grabner
Katrina Grabner (She/Her), MA, RCAT, ATPQ, RCC, SEP, is an art therapist, somatic experiencing practitioner, visual artist and professor at Concordia University, with specialized training in Arts-based Eco-therapy. Originally from Treaty 6 Territory, just west of the Rocky Mountains, Katrina locates herself through her German, Scottish, Irish, Mi’kmaq and French ancestors.