MYFest 2025: Schedule

You are cordially invited to join this co-exploration of the critical connection between wellness and justice!

Please join us for another co-facilitated book circle on the book “Burnout from Humans.” As part of this book circle, we will explore the depth of the book and it’s implications over a series of sessions together, where we will move beyond simply consuming the ideas with our heads, to connecting them to our heart and hands in experiential ways.

This book circle requires separate registration through the google form linked inside. Please note that there is a limited number of participants that could join, so please sign up if you plan to participate.

Join us for an hour of supporting each other’s writing… quietly… where we will kick off with 5 minutes of inspiration, give everyone about 50 minutes to work on what is important to them right now, and have 5 minutes to celebrate what we’ve accomplished today. This group is dedicated to anyone who is working on a writing project of any kind: you can work on a peer-reviewed paper, grant application, syllabus, even a really tricky email, even your creative work, a poem you want to capture, lyrics for your next song 🙂

Learn from examples of thoughtfully designed educational AI prompts, including tools for critical thinking and writing feedback that students can use with free chatbots. We’ll identify key prompting strategies and explore libraries of student-facing prompts while sharing our own experiments and prompting wish lists.

A simple, playful and mindful paper-sculpture session. Learn how to process minor frustration and ground in the present moment through a combination of cathartic and creative processes.

In the “Joy Centered Pedagogy” Book Circle, we will be exploring the depth of the ideas from the book in community with other participants. Unlike a traditional book club, the purpose is read deeper, and spend time connecting with the ideas, with each other, and with our work in experiential and engaging ways. Space will be made for introspection, play, laughter, debate, conflict, reflection, and so much more.

This book circle requires separate registration through the google form linked inside. Please note that there is a limited number of participants that could join, so please sign up if you plan to participate.

Using the newly developed PGDIP in Blended and Online Learning as a case study we are exploring ways of widening access to higher education that does not only serve a neoliberal agenda by working towards radical flexiblity and participatory parity.

Even before the disruption of GenAI tools, educational technology had already been repeatedly hailed as both a saviour and a destroyer of learning. As tools proliferate, and change accelerates, the need for approaches that help to clarify not only what a tool might do but also the implications for learning with (or without) that tool become more and more critical. This interactive and exploratory session will use one such set of questions to kick off the collective creation of questions teachers, learners and others might use to confidential approach using, or not-using, tools for learning.

Discussion of Chris upcoming book, Luxury Surveillance and what the implications are of pervasive surveillance in the age of artificial intelligence

This combination of practical synchronous and asynchronous sessions equip you with tools to immediately apply TIP-based actions with each other, and to develop or adapt an aspect of education to support TIP in your local environment, perhaps through an upcoming class, webinar, student group, library training session, or whatever educational approach you want to take!

Religion, politics, climate change, migration, injustice, algorithms and more; in the modern world there are many forces that push us towards polarized viewpoints. In this two-part series we will explore what works and what doesn’t in trying to work effectively and ethically with people holding opposing viewpoints. We’ll draw on intercultural theory (a little), conflict resolution (a little) and even practice navigating differences without fear or anger.

In a world where the machine can do some things more effectively and efficiently, how do we now reckon with the art and science of writing? This conversation centers poetry as an invitation to brainstorm together about how to center our humanness in a increasingly automated world.

The 60 minutes workshop will give participating educators a peak into my classroom Mental Health practices as an educator who teaches engineering students courses of Soft Skills. The workshop is a blend of knowledge sharing, perspective shifting and introducing and practicing practical strategies that any educator can introduce in their classroom, and help their students talk about, but also cater for their mental health.

The facilitators will share personal experiences teaching both graduate and undergraduate academic writing courses and outline how they have succeeded in embracing Gen Z’s needs by providing them with future-relevant, innovative tools and techniques to use in their journey of lifelong learning and self-discovery.

What are some ethical concerns about neurodiverse students use generative AI programs to help with their education? This presentation will discuss how ND students might use gen AI to help with their coursework and some of the concerns that might pop up between students and faculty over this gen AI use

Please join us for a traditional book club discussion of the book “Hospicing Modernity.” Over the course of the summer, participants are invited to read the book “Hospicing Modernity” by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, for our book discussion meeting where we will discuss and explore the ideas in community with other readers.

This session will give you the opportunity to learn about body mapping and how it can help us to purposefully reflect on our own wellbeing. You will draw and annotate your own individual map as you reflect on a series of questions.

This session will give you the opportunity to learn about some narrative and voice-centred approaches to research and scholarship in education. You will write your own story and try out some different approaches to discover what a researcher might learn from your story.

Carrying on a MYFest tradition, this is our 4th year of Readers Theater, and this time the focus will be on plays based on African dilemma tales. No special preparation is required; all you need to bring is your voice and your curiosity. All ages are welcome!

Join us in a conversation that focuses on mindfulness practices for creative inspiration.