Monday, March 21, 2022 - 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Inclusion (Centre) is pleased to invite you to its Equity and Inclusion Dialogue series for the 2021-2022 academic year. Online registration is now open for this event. See the attached flyer for event details. Limited seating available.

Full listing of the Centre’s 2021-2022 Equity & Inclusion Dialogue series

Learning objectives:

• Reflect on our own experiences and perceptions of racial in/justice on campus and in our classrooms
• Explore how racism is experienced differently among racialized communities
• Analyze examples of microaggressions in order to uncover their harmful subtext
• Consider the unique trajectories and circumstances of students who live on the intersections of multiple marginal identities
• Identify strategies to create supportive learning environments for students

Facilitator bio:

Rahim Thawer MSW, RSW

Rahim Thawer is a registered social worker and psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, writer, and sessional lecturer. He's currently working on two books related to queer sexuality and mental health.

Rahim was also one of the co-founders of Ismaili Queers: Advocates for Pluralism and has dedicated almost 10 years to community organizing with Salaam Canada, a national volunteer-run LGBTQ Muslim organization.

Register now for the Introduction to Values-Based Innovation workshop. 

Value is a human quality to which we attribute importance that we express through what we think, say, and recognize in what others say and do. Values are about what’s important to us: they determine how we prioritize our expenditure of attention, time, energy, and resources. As a result, we give ourselves more fully to what we value and avoid what we do not.

This workshop will explore your values perspectives and the importance of values alignment in nurturing the culture of innovation within organizations. 

We look forward to seeing you at the virtual table! 

Register now

Join Lynn and Louise for this exciting #HumberEarthMonth2022 event! We will walk together to connect with the Land and Water of the Humber Arboretum. We will look for signs of Ziigwan (Spring), listen to the story about Grandmother Maple and a Maple Teaching, taste sap, and learn more about how Early Childhood Education students engage spirit, heart, mind and body in a new Two-Eyed Land Based Play and Co-Learning course. 

Please register for this event to receive further instructions: Register now

About the facilitators 

Lynn Short and Louise Zimanyi are co-lead investigators on a three-year project supported by the Lawson Foundation's Outdoor Play Strategy 2.0. 

Lynn Short (she/her) of mixed Ojibway, Irish, German and English heritage. Lynn completed her Indigenous Knowledge Certificate under Onaubinosay (Elder Jim Dumont) and continued to work with him, co-teaching for four years. In her current role as the Environmental Stewardship Coordinator for the Humber Arboretum and the Indigenous Curriculum Specialist for Land and Culture-Based Programs at Humber College, Lynn maintains strong connections to the Land. 

Louise Zimanyi (she/her) is a Professor in the Early Childhood Education department. As a settler on these Lands, through her work and research, Louise is walking together with Indigenous communities as part of a co-learning journey that engages the early childhood field in more political, ethical and decolonized learning and transformative pedagogy and practice.