“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
Rumi.
Conference and presentation and collaborative projects
“Art as medicine to heal the heart” Peacemaking Colloquium 2024:
Our Circle and Words are Medicine to Heal the Heart. International Panel: International Models of Peacemaking. Online, 19 September, 2024 (panelist)
European Graduate School, Panel: Expressive Arts and Nature. Saas-Fee, Switzerland/Online, 16 July 2022 (panelist)
“Your Ancestors Recognized My Ancestors” Canadian Indigenous/Native Studies Association
Conference, Trent University, Peterborough ON, 21 Feb 2020 (presenter).
“Embodied Therapeutic Inquiry for Decolonial Identity” European Graduate School Expressive Artbased
Research Seminar. Saas-Fee, Switzerland/Online (due to Covid-19), 26 July 2020 (presenter).
“Earth my Body, Water my Blood: Decolonizing Sense of Selves” Ecological/Earth-Based Arts
Therapies: International and Multi-Cultural Perspectives Conference. Online. 9 August 2020 (presenter).
http://ecoarttherapyeng.tilda.ws/
Poiesis Symposium: Decolonization and Expressive Arts, European Graduate School, Online (due to
Covid-19), 26 October 2020 (panelist).
“Reimagine Resilience” 3-months weekly expressive arts-based inquiry workshop, with From Trauma to
Transformation, Hong Kong (in person/online), December 2020– April, 2021 (facilitator and
content creator – English and Chinese)
“Awaken: Designing for Community Resiliency and Deep Adaptation” Internship, with O.U.R
Community Association and Gaia Education, Shawnigan Lake, BC/Online, 13 May – 19 August 2020
(curriculum development and guest teacher).
“The Indigenous Screen Cultures Across The Americas” event and “The Ongoing Land Struggle of
Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawks) of Kanehsatà:ke public talk by Ellen Gabriel”, under Queen’s Research
Leaders’ Fund “Indigenous Stories through Changing Landscapes” with Dr. Isabelle St-Amand, Queen’s
University, Kingston, ON. 7 November and 4 March 2020 (event organizer and research assistant)
Ecovillage Design Education (EDE) Curriculum certificate, develop and facilitate the only English EDE
5-week residential program in Canada, for UN education partner Gaia Education, Shawnigan Lake, BC.
2017, 2018 & 2019 (curriculum development and program facilitator)
“Expressive Arts Practice for Holding Turbulence”, 4-weeks online group, co-facilitate with expressive
arts therapist Sara Anderson, 5 April – 31 May, 2020 (content creator and facilitator)
imagination care studio 