Teaching with Contemplative Practices: Valuing Presence, Connection, and Mutual Flourishing (Part 1)
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2025
Place: (Online) Virtual Classroom
Time: 10:00 am - 10:45 am
Facilitator(s): LeeRay Costa, PhD
Spaces available: 15
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Teaching with Contemplative Practices: Valuing Presence, Connection, and Mutual Flourishing (Part 2)
Date: Friday, September 19, 2025
Place: (Online) Virtual Classroom
Time: 10:00 am - 10:30 am
Facilitator(s): LeeRay Costa, PhD
Spaces available: 25
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Territorial Land Acknowledgements: Practical Strategies for Curriculum and Pedagogical Practices
This workshop critically examines territorial land acknowledgments and their linkages to current critical discourse around land, community, and Western-based academic institutions and relationships to Indigenous peoples. Questions to be explored include: What are territorial land acknowledgments? Why are they important? How can faculty respectfully integrate Concordia University’s territorial land acknowledgment in course design and pedagogical practices? At the end of this workshop, participants will:
· Critically examine what Territorial land acknowledgments mean in relation to Indigenous lands and territories university systems are built on.
· Engage in critical discourse and self-reflection on: How do Territorial land acknowledgments implicate you within the frameworks of your relationships to Indigenous peoples, the lands you live, study and/or work on.
· Examine practical curricular and pedagogical strategies on ways to weave in Concordia’s Territorial Land acknowledgment in course design.
Date: Monday, September 22, 2025
Place: (Online) Virtual Classroom
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Facilitator(s): Donna Kahérakwas Goodleaf, Director Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy
Spaces available: 22
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Culturally Appreciative or Culturally Appropriative? Ethical Considerations for Incorporating Contemplative Practices
Date: Wednesday, October 01, 2025
Place: HyFlex
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Facilitator(s): Naj Sumar, Instructional Designer, Inclusive Pedagogies
Spaces available: 22
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Adapting Classroom Management Strategies for Today's Climate
Date: Friday, October 03, 2025
Place: (Online) Virtual Classroom
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Facilitator(s): Naj Sumar, Instructional Designer, Inclusive Pedagogies
Spaces available: 38
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Pedagogical Strategies to Integrate Modules on History of Resiliency and Continuance of Rotinonhsión:ni Confederacy
Date: Friday, October 03, 2025
Place: HyFlex
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Facilitator(s): Donna Kahérakwas Goodleaf, Director Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy
Spaces available: 45
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Teaching Exchange: Managing student requests for extensions and assessing participation
Date: Tuesday, October 07, 2025
Place: (Online) Virtual Classroom
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Facilitator(s): Margo Echenberg, Educational Developer, CTL
Spaces available: 15
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Decentring Dominant Narratives in Higher Education through Culturally Responsive and Relevant Pedagogies
Date: Wednesday, October 08, 2025
Place: (Online) Virtual Classroom
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Facilitator(s): Clarissa de Leon
Spaces available: 20
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Connecting It All: Expressive Arts Contemplative Pedagogy for Community, Inclusion, and Belonging
Date: Friday, October 24, 2025
Place: Online Location: Zoom [link]
Time: 10:00 am - 11:15 am
Facilitator(s): Beth Berila, Ph.D., ACC
Spaces available: 29
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Teaching Exchange: Exploring service design experiential learning: New horizons for next gen learning (Coach approach)
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Place: HyFlex
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Facilitator(s): John Bentley, CTL
Spaces available: 20
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Trauma-informed pedagogy and practices
Date: Friday, October 31, 2025
Place: (Online) Virtual Classroom
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Facilitator(s): Rosemary C. Reilly, Ph.D., Anne Archambault, Sandra VanderKaay, Ph.D.
Spaces available: Unlimited
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Conflicting World Views
Date: Friday, November 07, 2025
Place: HyFlex
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Facilitator(s): Lee McComber & David McComber
Spaces available: 5
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The Audacity of Contemplative Resistance: Projecting Possibilities and Imagining New Futures
Date: Friday, November 14, 2025
Place: (Online) Virtual Classroom
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Facilitator(s): Dr. David Robinson-Morris
Spaces available: 38
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Contemplative Practices Summit: Reflections and wrap-up
Date: Friday, November 21, 2025
Place: HyFlex
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Facilitator(s): Naj Sumar, Instructional Designer, Inclusive Pedagogies
Spaces available: 33
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