Learn about social innovation projects in progress and contribute to their success! 

Register now for the opportunity to network with like-minded students, faculty, and community members while working together towards social change. Everyone is welcome.

Humber’s Centre for Social Innovation warmly invites you to take part in the Social Innovation Spring Workshops: three exciting, in-person days of innovation. You will hear from faculty, students and community organizations about the genesis of their project and why it matters to community. Through facilitated workshops, you’ll work with them on a challenge within their research or project.  

The second workshop will be on March 22, 2023 at 12 p.m. at the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation (CTI) at North Campus. The remaining workshops will be on April 3 at 5:30 p.m. at the Lakeshore Campus. 

Register now for the March 22 workshop 

Event Details for the first workshop: 

Date: Wednesday, March 22 
Time: 12 - 4 p.m.   
Location: Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation

List of presenters and topics for March 22: 

• Jeremy Staples (Humber staff) - New World of Work 
• Salomeh Ahmadi (Humber faculty) - Community Based Participatory Research and Housing Affordability 
• Emma Smith and Doug Thomson (Humber faculty) - Policing and Community Partnerships: Learning From Each Other 
• Dr. Saadia Akram-Pall and Nasrin Hotaki (Rexdale Women’s Centre) - Social services in a time of crisis: what can nonprofits learn from their COVID response. 
• Alexa Christopoulos and Lisa Post (Humber students) - Aging in Place: Exploring Community Care Resource Needs 

For more information about the March 22 and April 3 workshops, and to register for any of the remaining dates, please visit the Humber Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) website. 

Join Consent Peer Education Program (CPEP) and Cayla Meredith to talk about healing, safety, building relationships, and accepting yourself after trauma. These sessions are open to all students, faculty, and staff to learn, listen, and support one another.

Topics:

• March 22: Creating Safety Within the Self After Sexual Trauma
• March 29: Creating Safety Within LGBTQ Relationships as a Trauma Survivor
• April 5: Let's Talk About Trauma and How to Release Shame (live Q + A)
• April 12: Accepting Yourself in a World You Feel Does Not Accept You

Cayla Meredith is the founder of the Move to Heal Project and hosts the "Let's Talk About Trauma" Podcast. The Move to Heal Project was a vision that came to Cayla, after reflecting back on the lowest points of her life and her experiences with childhood trauma. The Move to Heal Project began as a blog for people from all over the world to share their stories and now it has become a space to explore healing.

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In early December 2021, Humber officially launched a group for employees who identify as white and/or as having white skin privilege to examine how they have been conditioned by their whiteness and how it shows up in their thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and within their institutions (home, work, educational, religious, etc.). The Unlearning Circle focuses on unpacking and dismantling white supremacy culture, unlearning it, and changing the behaviours that perpetuate it.

Interested in joining the circle or have questions about it? For more information email theunlearningcircle@humber.ca, or visit our webpage to learn more and access past meeting materials.

Next session: The Circle will hold its thirteenth session virtually on Monday, March 20 from 12:05 p.m. to 1:25 p.m.

The Math & Writing Centre is pleased to announce in partnership with the Centre for Urban Ecology a special edition of our Conversation Circles that will take place on multiple days in the Humber Arboretum and offer English language learners at Humber a chance to practice their listening and speaking skills and to build their vocabulary on topics related to nature, including ecology, climate change and sustainability, as well as the names and characteristics of all kinds of plants and animals.

The sessions will be co-hosted by one of our writing tutors and CUE staff and will take place in the CUE buiding in the heart of the Arboretum.

For March, we are offering four sessions all to be held from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.:

• Thursday, March 9
• Monday, March 20
• Thursday, March 23
• Monday, March 27

We ask students interested in joining one of the sessions to scan the QR code in the attached poster to sign up and to show up at the North Campus Math & Writing Centre on the third floor of the LRC no later than 10:30 a.m. on the day of the session. The host tutor will then walk with the students to the CUE building and set up the Nature Conversation Circle upon arrival.

Please share the poster and let students know about this new opportunity for engagement and discovery.