MYFest 2026: Schedule

An interactive critical AI literacy workshop that uses the concept of khilafa (stewardship) as a framework for thinking about AI responsibility, guided by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s visionary story “Sultana’s Dream.”The workshop offers practical tools for understanding AI systems while centering values of justice, accountability, and collective wisdom.

In this session, we use the term Vibe Accessibility to describe accessibility practices that prioritize automation over genuine understanding. We argue that when access becomes automated, it reduces access literacy, diminishes collective responsibility, and ultimately leads to access-washing.

You are invited to join a space for collective reflection on inclusive teaching where we also explore strategies for making this work practical. We introduce the Enabling Accessible Blended Learning for Equity (ENABLE) framework and share case studies of inclusive teaching from our South African higher education context. Come curious!

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.
For this session we will discuss the topic: Embracing vulnerability for building connection and belonging.

Power Walk is an interactive activity that invites us to explore privilege, opportunity, access, identity and inequality through movement and reflection (well, this being an online session, we will find a way to have the movement).

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.

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.

Join us for an exploratory conversation about how the emergence of generative AI technologies in educational spaces may be affecting our relationships—with each other, with other entities, with social and ecological systems, with AI tools themselves, and even with ourselves. Through guided prompting, thought-provoking questions and short activities, we will reflect on and share ideas about the implications of Generative AI on how we understand and form relationships.

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.