EVENT DETAILS
eventDate: Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Time: 5:15-7:30PM
event5:15 PM - 5:30 PM - Check In & Snacks
5:30 - 7:30PM - Event
7:30 - 8:00PM - Optional Net
location_onLiu Institute for Global Issues
6476 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2, Canada
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Time: 5:15-7:30PM
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM - Check In & Snacks
5:30 - 7:30PM - Event
7:30 - 8:00PM - Optional Net
Liu Institute for Global Issues
6476 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2, Canada
About
Join us for an engaging, interactive workshop for students and community members who are interested in building their skills for creative facilitation and experiential forms of teaching. This session will offer helpful ideas for facilitation in settings such as classrooms and community research and activism spaces. The session will be led by the three authors of The Handbook of Facilitation for Community Transformation, Kari Grain (Faculty member in UBC Education, author of Critical Hope), Khari Wendell McClelland (Musician and Black liberation activist), and Tara Mahoney (climate activist and community engaged researcher). All participants will be gifted a free copy of Facilitation for Community Transformation for your own use in teaching and community engagement. Come and enjoy a great session and some free snacks and refreshments. All levels of facilitation experience are welcome.
This event is hosted in collaboration by the Office of Regional and International Community Engagement and the Department of Educational Studies, UBC, and made possible through funding provided by the UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF).
About the Speakers
Dr. Kari Grain, Author and Lecturer
Dr. Kari Grain is the author of Critical Hope and teaches at the University of British Columbia in the Faculty of Education, where she leads the Master’s in Adult Learning and Global Change (ALGC) Program. Her scholarship in experiential education, anti-racism, climate action, and global/local community engagement has been featured in peer reviewed journals, books, and podcasts. At the nucleus of Grain’s body of work is the belief that education has the potential to be a vibrant pathway toward systemic change; and vital to that process of transformation is an attunement to relational, creative, and vulnerable ways of being in the world with others. Kari is the co-editor of a forthcoming (2025) volume on Community Engaged Research (CER) with University of Toronto Press. Kari lives on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories.
Khari Wendell McClelland, Creative Facilitator
Imaginative. Bold. Genuine. Hopeful. Khari Wendell McClelland is an award-winning musician and creative facilitator who uses the arts and experiential activities for transformational learning.
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Khari has worked with communities across Africa, Australia, Europe, North America and the Caribbean.
In a world with increasingly complex societal challenges, the need for values-based creative solutions is paramount.
Khari helps youth and adults explore core values and creativity as a means to self-actualization, community building and problem-solving.
Tara Mahoney, Research and Engagement Manager
Tara Mahoney is the Research and Engagement Manager with SFU’s Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERi). With over 15 years of experience in community organizing and a PhD in Communication from Simon Fraser University, Tara has been at the forefront of innovative projects that bridge the gap between academic research and community-driven solutions. She teaches climate communications in the Climate Action certificate program at SFU and has published widely on topics related to community-engaged research and public engagement with climate issues. Prior to her role with SFU CERi, Tara was the co-founder and creative director of public engagement agency Gen Why Media, instructor with Civic Innovation Change Lab at RADIUS SFU and the Research Fellow in Climate Change Communications at the David Suzuki Foundation. To learn more about her engagement work and publications visit creativepublics.ca