MYFest 2026: Browse by Theme

Relive the IEH Series from May 2024 again – sign up to receive daily tips and activities related to Intentionally Equitable facilitation from June 15 – July 15

What if every voice and every view were treated as the wisdom it is? Join this online session to explore key methods from Lewis Deep Democracy (LDD), a methodology that arise in post Apartheid South Africa.

Relive the IEH Series from May 2024 again – sign up to receive daily tips and activities related to Intentionally Equitable facilitation from June 15 – July 15

This is a kick-off session to support participants who plan to take the free, online, self-paced AI Literacies Unlocked course.

Across higher education, conversations about AI have largely centered on policy, risk, and academic integrity, often overlooking the conditions faculty and students were already navigating before AI emerged. This interactive session starts from a different premise: AI may be less a disruption itself and more a signal of existing learning environments, asking participants to explore the question: What issues has AI served as an accelerant for, and why? Through facilitated dialogue and structured reflection, faculty will examine how institutional conditions shape help-seeking, participation, trust, and AI use, while identifying pathways for addressing those conditions in their own contexts.

AI is reshaping education, threatening critical thinking through cognitive offloading. Teachers must redesign tasks to embed iterative thinking, from planning and prompting to evaluating and defending, ensuring students engage deeply with AI rather than surrender their thinking to it. The goal is not to restrict AI but to reposition it as a tool that supports but never replaces student thinking.

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.

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.

Relive the IEH Series from May 2024 again – sign up to receive daily tips and activities related to Intentionally Equitable facilitation from June 15 – July 15

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.

What if every voice and every view were treated as the wisdom it is? Join this online session to explore key methods from Lewis Deep Democracy (LDD), a methodology that arise in post Apartheid South Africa.

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.

During this session, we’ll reflect collectively on our learning in the past month, whether through MYFest or elsewhere, and see what emerges as new needs or interests for the next few weeks. We will also experiment with creative approaches to community reflection that you might want to try in your own courses or practice.

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 🙂

Across higher education, conversations about AI have largely centered on policy, risk, and academic integrity, often overlooking the conditions faculty and students were already navigating before AI emerged. This interactive session starts from a different premise: AI may be less a disruption itself and more a signal of existing learning environments, asking participants to explore the question: What issues has AI served as an accelerant for, and why? Through facilitated dialogue and structured reflection, faculty will examine how institutional conditions shape help-seeking, participation, trust, and AI use, while identifying pathways for addressing those conditions in their own contexts.

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 🙂

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.

Curricular seeds are sessions where we invite participants to share what they do in their own teaching/workshops on a particular theme, and then we take time in small groups to reflect on how we all might apply, adapt or develop activities or resources based on what we discuss in the first half, and how we might support each other going forward via Equity Unbound.

Relive the IEH Series from May 2024 again – sign up to receive daily tips and activities related to Intentionally Equitable facilitation from June 15 – July 15

Curricular seeds are sessions where we invite participants to share what they do in their own teaching/workshops on a particular theme, and then we take time in small groups to reflect on how we all might apply, adapt or develop activities or resources based on what we discuss in the first half, and how we might support each other going forward via Equity Unbound.

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.

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.

This session shares our journey of writing a book chapter (under review) entitled: A Praxis of Emergence and Intentional Adaptation at Equity Unbound. We will share our full autoethnographic narratives ahead of time, and during the session share excerpts from them and share with participants key insights we gained from our writing. We will then invite participants to share with us how they think IEH may transfer to other contexts, and the challenges they have faced or expect to face when trying to apply it in different communities.

In this session, we will offer some principles of designing hybrid events in ways that are intentionally equitable and also engaging for both online and in-person participants. The session builds on the IEH praxis of Virtually connecting (which was hybrid). Participants will have opportunities to reflect on the best and worst hybrid experiences they have had, and reimagine a particular upcoming event as intentionally equitable hybrid.

What if every voice and every view were treated as the wisdom it is? Join this online session to explore key methods from Lewis Deep Democracy (LDD), a methodology that arise in post Apartheid South Africa.

Across higher education, conversations about AI have largely centered on policy, risk, and academic integrity, often overlooking the conditions faculty and students were already navigating before AI emerged. This interactive session starts from a different premise: AI may be less a disruption itself and more a signal of existing learning environments, asking participants to explore the question: What issues has AI served as an accelerant for, and why? Through facilitated dialogue and structured reflection, faculty will examine how institutional conditions shape help-seeking, participation, trust, and AI use, while identifying pathways for addressing those conditions in their own contexts.

The way students read has changed, and classrooms are feeling it. This session introduces the Biliterate brain as a framework for understanding how print and digital reading shape cognitive pathways differently and what that means for teaching and learning. Participants will leave with practical strategies to improve reading comprehension across both modes and the tools to embed them into their own classrooms.

In this session, we will offer some principles of designing hybrid events in ways that are intentionally equitable and also engaging for both online and in-person participants. The session builds on the IEH praxis of Virtually connecting (which was hybrid). Participants will have opportunities to reflect on the best and worst hybrid experiences they have had, and reimagine a particular upcoming event as intentionally equitable hybrid.

What if every voice and every view were treated as the wisdom it is? Join this online session to explore key methods from Lewis Deep Democracy (LDD), a methodology that arise in post Apartheid South Africa.

Across higher education, conversations about AI have largely centered on policy, risk, and academic integrity, often overlooking the conditions faculty and students were already navigating before AI emerged. This interactive session starts from a different premise: AI may be less a disruption itself and more a signal of existing learning environments, asking participants to explore the question: What issues has AI served as an accelerant for, and why? Through facilitated dialogue and structured reflection, faculty will examine how institutional conditions shape help-seeking, participation, trust, and AI use, while identifying pathways for addressing those conditions in their own contexts.

The way students read has changed, and classrooms are feeling it. This session introduces the Biliterate brain as a framework for understanding how print and digital reading shape cognitive pathways differently and what that means for teaching and learning. Participants will leave with practical strategies to improve reading comprehension across both modes and the tools to embed them into their own classrooms.

In this session, we will offer some principles of designing hybrid events in ways that are intentionally equitable and also engaging for both online and in-person participants. The session builds on the IEH praxis of Virtually connecting (which was hybrid). Participants will have opportunities to reflect on the best and worst hybrid experiences they have had, and reimagine a particular upcoming event as intentionally equitable hybrid.

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.

Curricular seeds are sessions where we invite participants to share what they do in their own teaching/workshops on a particular theme, and then we take time in small groups to reflect on how we all might apply, adapt or develop activities or resources based on what we discuss in the first half, and how we might support each other going forward via Equity Unbound.

Curricular seeds are sessions where we invite participants to share what they do in their own teaching/workshops on a particular theme, and then we take time in small groups to reflect on how we all might apply, adapt or develop activities or resources based on what we discuss in the first half, and how we might support each other going forward via Equity Unbound.

AI is reshaping education, threatening critical thinking through cognitive offloading. Teachers must redesign tasks to embed iterative thinking, from planning and prompting to evaluating and defending, ensuring students engage deeply with AI rather than surrender their thinking to it. The goal is not to restrict AI but to reposition it as a tool that supports but never replaces student thinking.

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.

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.

What if every voice and every view were treated as the wisdom it is? Join this online session to explore key methods from Lewis Deep Democracy (LDD), a methodology that arise in post Apartheid South Africa.

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.

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.

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.

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.