MYFest Schedule: All Years

Take ten minutes to be mindful and reset your mind with a simple, calming and grounding guided meditation. Open to all levels, this biweekly practice helps you carry more calm and mindfulness into the rest of your day.

Join me for a conversational session exploring the AI Ethics Rubric for Learning Professionals —a work-in-progress framework that treats ethics not as a checklist, but as a design challenge. Together, we’ll unpack 10 dimensions of ethical AI use in learning initiatives, reflect on real-world scenarios, and reimagine how learning teams can shape responsible, human-centered AI practices.

This session invites participants to rethink assessment in a time of generative AI by focusing on educators’ deeper involvement in learning, rather than relying on surveillance or detection. Together, we’ll explore how to identify the kinds of learning we most value and design tasks that make that learning more visible and meaningful.

Theatre of the Oppressed was developed by Augusto Boal in Brazil in the mid-60s. Its development stemmed from two core ideas. Firstly, is that drama can help people find solutions for their daily problems and obstacles. An art that can help emancipate. Secondly, it was based on the belief that acting is a skill that can be nurtured through practice and excitement. This sessions explores possible applications in pedagogical settings.

This is a recurring, short and guided journaling session. Through thoughtfully written prompts and individual quiet reflection time, you'll journal about gratitude, self-love, loving-kindness and wellbeing. Bring a notebook, an open heart and come just as you are.

Join us for an interactive workshop where we'll examine and nurture the ideas that have surfaced during this year's MYFest journey. In a series of fun and creative activities, we'll see what idea seeds we want to nurture, frame our learning, and create a digital time capsule to share with the MYFest community. While working together, we'll use beautiful music as a backdrop for our creative endeavours.

Join us for an end-of-MYFest community reflection session. We hope this will be an opportunity to connect with each other as our mid-year programming ends, a way to look back at what we've learned, relationships we've built, and ripples of learning we hope to take forward. We hope you can also come and share with us what you'd like to see throughout the calendar year, so that we can remain in touch and support each other year-round.

In this interactive workshop we will explore the notion of learning sanctuary and imagine ways to engender such space within our courses.

This session will demonstrate why screen-reader access is important when designing learning materials, especially Open Educational Resources. Have you ever wanted to know how people who are visually impaired or totally blind access your content? Come to this session and I, a visually impaired screen-reader user and an accessibility expert myself, will demonstrate for you the experience of a blind person navigating websites and digital materials. The session will connect these examples to the four principles of accessibility: perceivable, operable, user-friendly, and real. We will also discuss reasonable accommodations and why accessibility must be built into course design rather than added later. Throughout the session, participants will be invited to reflect, ask questions, and rethink their own materials. By the end, they will leave with practical strategies for creating learning spaces that are genuinely inclusive for screen reader users.

These are sessions that center community building. We believe that "building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual" (Grace Lee Boggs cited by adrienne maree brown), and this is a space for us to get together, get to know one another, and learn ways of building community that we can take back to our classes and local communities.

Can we learn about AI by sparring with it? In this workshop, we’ll try writing exercises that use AI as a foil or opposing force to test ideas rather than generate them, to challenge rather than affirm. These exercises and tools will help demystify the technology and break the spell of anthropomorphization.

The aim of this series of sessions is to create a safe space in community with one another to engage in healing conversations around topics of import to our individual and collective well-being. Topics are intended to address issues common to the human experience in these trying times. The hope is that these sessions invite introspection and dialogue to deepen connection and solidarity, and inspire hope, healing and transformation. Topic 1: Building community through embracing diversity and connecting with the 'other' Topic 2: Centering joy in our lives during trying times Topic 3: Embracing vulnerability for building connection and belonging

Come walk with us! In this session, we invite you to join Zoom on your phone and take a walk. We'll talk a little bit at the beginning and set our intentions, and have some moments of quiet meditative walking while honing our senses to what surrounds us, then we will take a moment to share from our surroundings and reflections from the walk. We will also discuss ways you can try an activity similar to this in your own teaching and practice.

Do you feel truly seen and valued in your work, and are you helping others feel that way too? Join us for a six-session book circle exploring "Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose" by Jennifer Breheny Wallace hosted by Theresa Destrebecq.

In the middle of busy days, even a few moments of stillness can make a big difference. This recurring 10 minute guided meditation offers a space to pause, breathe, be mindful and gently reconnect with yourself. Whether you are new to meditation, looking to build a steady practice or long-time meditator, you’ll be guided through a calming experience designed to reduce stress and help enhance your presence. Come as you are – no prior experience needed, just a willingness to slow down and be.

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This session invites participants into a collective exploration of feminist epistemic disobedience through reflective writing, deep listening in triads, and collaborative poetic weaving. It centers affective listening and community-building as practices for reimagining science education. The focus is on opening space for new ways of knowing, relating, and imagining educational futures.

These are sessions that center community building. We believe that "building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual" (Grace Lee Boggs cited by adrienne maree brown), and this is a space for us to get together, get to know one another, and learn ways of building community that we can take back to our classes and local communities.

Do you feel truly seen and valued in your work, and are you helping others feel that way too? Join us for a six-session book circle exploring "Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose" by Jennifer Breheny Wallace hosted by Theresa Destrebecq.

Join me for a short calming and reflective journaling session designed to help you reconnect and recharge. Through thoughtfully written prompts and individual quiet reflection time, we’ll journal about gratitude, self-love, loving-kindness and wellbeing. Whether you’re a long-tome journaler or just getting started, this space invites you to slow down, tune in and leave feeling lighter, clearer and more connected. Bring a notebook, an open heart and come just as you are.