We present these webinars to support the academic community in this time of transition back to campus. Visit the Teaching + Learning Events Calendar to learn more and to register for sessions on Managing Reopening Anxiety and approaches to Workplace Mental Health for 2021.
Managing Reopening Anxiety
As lockdowns lift, many are feeling anxious. In this session, we will consider how to recognize and manage reopening anxiety.
Date & Time:
Workplace Mental Health in 2021
This session is focused on the in-between time where some folks are working remotely and others are at workplaces in person. We will consider some of the challenges to workplace mental health at this point in the pandemic and explore strategies for supporting employees, colleagues and ourselves during this time of transition.
Date & Time:
Please join Community Outreach & Workforce Development (COWD) on Tuesday, August 24, from 12 to 12:45 p.m. for a virtual Lunch & Learn as we launch our Systems Thinking Social Hackathon Kit for the Humber community.
In 2020, COWD launched its first-ever Access to Higher Education Social Hackathon, an innovative capacity-building event for education, community, and industry partners. The purpose of this event was to build our partners' capacity about access to PSE issues while giving them tools to think about access from a systems-thinking perspective, EDI lens, and the SDGs framework to leverage their sector-specific knowledge to collaborate on systems solutions. This hackathon event developed a series of resources ranging from case studies, facilitation guides, and systems-thinking judging rubrics.
Fast forward to 2021, our Social Hackathon model was re-mixed to support local youth and Humber/GH students to develop systems thinking skills during the United Nations SDGs Launch: Connecting for Sustainable Futures 2021 along with the Office of Sustainability and FLA. Participants received training about the SDGs and systems-thinking and then engaged in a guided solution-finding session to address a range of pandemic-related issues in the larger community.
This session will:
Attendees will leave with access to a suite of resources that comprise our Systems Thinking Social Hackathon Kit.
Facilitated by: Thomas Puthenmadhom and Nivedita Lane
Orientation Week is happening from Monday, August 23, until Friday, August 27. Join us for the All New Faculty Welcome, Part-Time Faculty Orientation and ED-Venture Days with a feature keynote presentation "In Celebration of Educators" led by Anthony McLean. For more information or to register for any of these sessions, visit the Teaching + Learning website.
All New Faculty Welcome
Date: Monday, August 23 at 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Humber is a leader in polytechnic education and has identified five core institutional values: Courage, Equity, Innovation, Health & Wellbeing, and Sustainability. Each of these values guides the work that we do.
We invite you to an online welcome session for all new full- and part-time faculty. During the session, you will meet members of Humber’s executive leadership team, learn about our institutional priorities and learner-centered focus, and find out about the training and resources available to you as a faculty member.
New Part-Time Faculty Orientation: Teaching and Learning at Humber College
Dates: Monday, August 23 at 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. & Wednesday, August 25 at 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Humber’s Teaching +Learning is looking forward to welcoming our new part-time faculty to Humber! We strive to create and facilitate authentic and meaningful faculty development experiences that promote and support teaching excellence. In this session, members of our team will introduce you to the professional supports and opportunities that are available to you as part-time faculty and share strategies on how to prepare for the start of the academic year.
In Celebration of Educators by Keynote Speaker: Anthony McLean
Date: Friday, August 27 at 9 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
This is an encouraging, morale-boosting talk to inspire educators who give their best every day. Teachers and administrators are often overwhelmed and sometimes feel burnt out by the end of the week. In the midst of a busy year, it’s easy to forget that the daily interactions we have with students are sometimes the most valuable moments of our day.
In this laugh-out-loud presentation, Anthony McLean tells funny and inspiring stories about the teachers and administrators who changed his life by acknowledging his effort, encouraging his strengths, and pushing him to give his best. Every educator needs this reminder — the reward for not giving up on our students is the ability to make a difference and change the world one student at a time.
ED-Venture Days
Dates: Thursday, August 26 & Friday, August 27
Two days filled with interactive sessions, panel discussions, Q&A, keynote speakers, and more! ED-Venture Days aims to connect Humber colleagues with each other and foster deep interdisciplinary conversations focused on teaching and learning.
We present these webinars to support the academic community in this time of transition back to campus. Visit the Teaching + Learning Events Calendar to learn more and to register for sessions on Managing Reopening Anxiety and approaches to Workplace Mental Health for 2021.
Managing Reopening Anxiety
As lockdowns lift, many are feeling anxious. In this session, we will consider how to recognize and manage reopening anxiety.
Date & Time:
Workplace Mental Health in 2021
This session is focused on the in-between time where some folks are working remotely and others are at workplaces in person. We will consider some of the challenges to workplace mental health at this point in the pandemic and explore strategies for supporting employees, colleagues and ourselves during this time of transition.
Date & Time:
Join collage-based artist, researcher, and community arts facilitator Emkay Adjei-Manu as we explore themes of personal growth, relationship to self and community through the practice of traditional cut and paste collage. In addition, this workshop will also hold space for a community conversation grounded in the theme of relationship to self as led by the facilitator. Participants will be using images, symbols, and words found in magazines other found material to connect and explore deeper and different parts of ourselves.
This workshop series is designed to introduce participants to artistic and natural elements that support personal growth and development through hands-on arts-based activities. Workshops will focus on topics such as identity as it relates to personal learning, developing connections with environments, and building a relationship with oneself. Our goal is to activate the Interpretive Centre’s 4-guiding pillars: Environmental Sustainability, Education, Mental Health and Indigenous Heritage through this series with guest presenters to help us engage our communities.
About our Instructor Emkay Adjei-Manu
Emkay Adjei-Manu is a multidisciplinary artist and community arts facilitator based out of the GTA. Their practice is grounded within the mediums of writing, documentary/analog photography, and collage. But at the moment, Emkay utilizes collage and experimental prose to deeply and critically explore themes of embodiment, memory, sensuality and spirit. Emkay is drawn to the practice of collage by its expansiveness and its ability to intricately examine ruminations they have of their own life experiences. Beyond the tactility of traditional cut and paste collage, Emkay’s work also functions as an individual and collective breathing practice. In their practice, Emkay seeks to explore and understand the known and unknown stories that we carry in our bodies. Their art has been showcased in galleries such as Nia Centre for the Arts and McMaster Museum of Art and published in print magazines such as PITCH magazine. Emkay is completing their Bachelor of Social Work at Ryerson University and has also worked in arts-based research and workshop facilitation with various non-profit organizations. In their spare time, Emkay enjoys daydreaming as a tool for remembering and imagining past and future life.
Materials required for this workshop are:
Blank paper, magazines/newspaper/flyers/old books, scissors (or use your hands to rip), glue or tape, colouring utensils/paint (not mandatory, but fun to include!)
To register by phone, call 416.675.6622 x3801 and leave a message with your name and phone number.
If you have any questions, please email info@lakeshoregrounds.ca.
This is a free event.
Join us for a virtual presentation and arts-based workshop with Philip Cote, MFA; Young Spiritual Elder, Artist, Activist, Ancestral Knowledge Keeper, Historian & Cultural Mediator.
As part of the "Discover Our Neighbourhood" workshops, explore the neighbourhood stories and histories of the Lakeshore Grounds in South Etobicoke. Free presentation with optional arts-based activity exploring Etobicoke-Lakeshore's heritage. Create unique postcards inspired by community stories, explore the landmarks and memorials, and connect with other residents virtually!
Anishinaabe-izhini-kaaz-o-win Nodj-mowin-Miskogayaashk Gichi-manidoo-anishinaabe indoodem Mishu-pishu niin Anishinaabe, Shawnee, Lakota, Potawatomi, Ojibway, Algonquin Min-a-waa Mohawk. Philip Cote, MFA, Moose Deer Point First Nation, is a Young Spiritual Elder, Indigenous artist, activist, educator, historian, and Ancestral Knowledge Keeper. He is engaged in creating opportunities for artmaking and teaching methodologies through Indigenous symbolism, traditional ceremonies, history, oral stories, and land-based pedagogy. Citing all of his ancestries, he is Shawnee, Lakota, Potawatomi, Ojibway, Algonquin, and Mohawk. Philip is the seventh generation great-grandson of Shawnee Warrior and Leader Tecumseh, and his ancestor Amelia Chechok is the granddaughter of Chechok, who was the first signer of the Toronto Purchase of 1805.
A City of Toronto Cultural Hotspot SPARK Project
Join Arboretum staff online for a discussion about the names of plants and animals.
The Nature Exchange is a casual virtual conversation about all things nature. Drop in to hear members of the Arboretum's Nature Interpretation team share stories and answer your questions about the wild plants and animals of the GTA. You are welcome to join the conversation or just listen in.
The theme for this Nature Exchange is: What's in a Name?
We'll be talking about how plants and animals get their names, names we love, and times that names have gone wrong.
This is a free, drop-in event open to all.
No registration is required. You can learn more about the Nature Exchange on the Arboretum website, or simply join the event on August 18 at 2 p.m.
Please note that this event will be recorded and may be shared online after the fact.
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We present these webinars to support the academic community in this time of transition back to campus. Visit the Teaching + Learning Events Calendar to learn more and to register for sessions on Managing Reopening Anxiety and approaches to Workplace Mental Health for 2021.
Managing Reopening Anxiety
As lockdowns lift, many are feeling anxious. In this session, we will consider how to recognize and manage reopening anxiety.
Date & Time:
Workplace Mental Health in 2021
This session is focused on the in-between time where some folks are working remotely and others are at workplaces in person. We will consider some of the challenges to workplace mental health at this point in the pandemic and explore strategies for supporting employees, colleagues and ourselves during this time of transition.
Date & Time:
This workshop will be a spoken word writing workshop exploring elements of written and performance poetry as a creative practice.
Let's come together with writer, spoken word poet, arts educator, and wellness consultant Igho Diana, in the second workshop of this series "I am: Poetry". This workshop will be a spoken word writing workshop exploring elements of written and performance poetry as a creative practice. Participants will learn different writing techniques for self-reflection; the art of storytelling; and performance-based poetry as tools for building self-confidence and self-efficacy.
Over the last 10 years as a spoken word poet and 5 years as a facilitator, Igho has mastered the art of storytelling and community building. Join us for this creative wellness workshop as Igho walks us through self and community care using the art of poetry, and the written word.
Materials required for this workshop are:
This is a free event.
Meet our instructior Igho Diana
Igho Diana is a writer, spoken word poet, arts educator, and wellness consultant. In her twenty-plus years of lived experiences she has come to believe that being Black and Woman is a life-long lesson on resilience and grace. Thus, she dedicates her time documenting and sharing stories as testimony, through her writing, workshops, performances, and other speaking engagements. Her chief aim is to equip people (particularly Black, Indigenous, & Latino communities) with everyday strategies to prioritize their wellness.
To register by phone, call 416.675.6622 x3801 and leave a message with your name and phone number.
If you have any questions, please email info@lakeshoregrounds.ca.
Let's come together with the writer, spoken word poet, arts educator, and wellness consultant Igho Diana in the second workshop of this series, I am: Poetry. This workshop will be a spoken word writing workshop exploring elements of written and performance poetry as a creative practice. Participants will learn different writing techniques for self-reflection; the art of storytelling; and performance-based poetry as tools for building self-confidence and self-efficacy.
Over the last ten years as a spoken word poet and five years as a facilitator, Igho has mastered the art of storytelling and community building. Join us for this creative wellness workshop as Igho walks us through self & community care using the art of poetry and the written word.
About our Instructor Igho Diana
Igho Diana is a writer, spoken word poet, arts educator, and wellness consultant. In her twenty-plus years of lived experiences, she has come to believe that being Black and Woman is a life-long lesson on resilience and grace. Thus, she dedicates her time documenting and sharing stories as a testimony through her writing, workshops, performances, and other speaking engagements. Her chief aim is to equip people (particularly Black, Indigenous, & Latino communities) with everyday strategies to prioritize their wellness.
Materials required for this workshop are:
A writing utensil (pen/pencil), paper, and yourself.
To register by phone, call 416.675.6622 x3801 and leave a message with your name and phone number.
If you have any questions, please email info@lakeshoregrounds.ca.
This is a free event.
