How do we practice them in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imagining of our future? How do we attend to generating the ease necessary to help us move through the inevitable struggles of life? How do we practice the art of holding others without losing ourselves? Black feminists have answers to those questions that can serve anyone working to create changes in our world, changes great and small individually, interpersonally, and within our organizations. The deadline for all submissions is Monday January 16th, learn more and apply here.In our complex world, facilitation and mediation skills are as important for individuals as they are for organizations. We are also looking for Black, Indigenous and racialized undergraduate and graduate students to submit artwork and/or poetry for this event. Stories Spark Change is being organized by: Toronto Metropolitain University, Laurier University, University of Toronto, Carleton University, University of Guelph, Western University, York University, and Queen’s University. The Ontario University Sexual Violence Network created Consent Action Week. It’s also an opportunity to raise awareness of both on and off-campus services. The week is an opportunity for campus communities to create a dialogue about consent, pleasure, relationships and increase understanding of sexual violence.

Stories Spark Change is part of Consent Action Week, an educational initiative held during the last week of January at universities across Ontario.

She is the author/editor of seven published texts and the founder of the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, where she is now the writer-in-residence. Informed by 25 years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E Butler scholarship and her work as a doula, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas and practices for transformation. This virtual event will feature student poetry and artwork, and the conversation will be moderated by Keneisha Charles.Īdrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her music and her podcasts. Join internationally renowned writer, activist, musician, and facilitator adrienne maree brown for an in-depth conversation on joy, pleasure, and healing.

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