UCDSB will cover the cost of your registration for this professional learning course!
The Medicine of Stories in Educating Hearts, Minds and Spirits
These inspiring and informative sessions will focus on the importance of stories and storytelling in the field of education and other disciplines that support educating hearts, minds and spirits. Each guest will share how they use storytelling in their work, in class, administratively and in their writing.
Monique and her guests will also share stories from their own lives that have been impactful in how they work and in how they live their lives. They will be inspirational sessions that will leave participants thinking about their own stories, which stories to use in education and how to use the tools of storytelling in their work.
These sessions will be about an hour in length, and will be held at 3:30pm Pacific / 6:30pm Eastern time. Here are the dates and our exciting and wise storytelling guests:
- January 30 – Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer: A mother, scientist, decorated professor, NY Times Bestselling author, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
- March 27 – Richard Van Camp: A proud member of the Dogrib (Tłı̨chǫ) Nation and is an internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author.
- April 24 – Judy Halbert and Linda Kaser: Co-directors of the Networks for Inquiry and Indigenous Education (NOIIE) and leads for the Transformative Educational Leadership Program (TELP).
- May 29 – Leona Prince: A Dakelh woman from the Lake Babine Nation and Nak’azdli. She is a mother of three and is a passionate and award-winning educator and lover of traditional and contemporary stories.
