PUBLIC SALON SERIES: Creating Capacity for Inclusion

This salon is for parents, teachers, care givers and anyone working with and caring for children.

We will hear from speakers, Aisha Kiani, Heather Beach, and Erika Cedillo

Diversity and inclusion have become the shifting point of many conversations in the school and at home. In this Salon Series we will explore ways in which we can continue to recognize our collective capacity to strengthen our practices of equity and inclusion in school and at home. While highlighting, learnings and solutions that are rooted in transformative, anti-racism, abolition, safety, and disability justice.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

Each speaker will be asked a value driven question to start off the evening and will have 10-miniutes to offer insights and reflections.

THE QUESTION: What is inclusion?”

While this question may seem simple and broad, it is the foundation towards helping us determine moral and ethical opinions and values about society and the culture that exists within schools and homes. It can help us delineate where problems and imbalances of power exist.

PROMPTS:

• Determine values around inclusion and equitable representation and support.
• Driving empathy helps us to better understand a group or individual's experience, which in turn helps us to identify where specific injustices occur for them. (Without forcing marginalized groups to speak to sensitive areas).
• Defining the Problem to help with setting goals, determining policy, understanding progress, and maintaining accountability.
• Challenging biases and asking questions helps us to identify, understand, and begin the process of eliminating bias at the home and out into the world.

THE AGENDA:

• 6:00pm – 6:20pm: An introduction to the evening, by our moderator Sarah Jamieson. A brief introduction to the evening through a trauma-sensitive lens.
• 6:20pm – 6:30pm – Speaker 1: Heather Beach, Regional Network Coordinator for The Family Support Institute of BC (FSI)
• 6:30pm – 6:40pm – Speaker 2: Speaker 2: Angeli Rawat, Global Health Researcher
• 6:40pm – 6:50pm – Speaker 3: Aisha Kiani, founder of I Dream Library and The Center for Education Design™️
• 6:50-7:00pm – Short Break (refreshments and snacks)
• 7:00pm – 7:45pm – Open Dialogue, moderated open floor Q&A.
• 7:45pm – Closing remarks
• 7:45pm - onward – Networking and Connecting with peers and speakers.

THE SPEAKERS:

Heather Beach iHeather Beach is the Regional Network Coordinator at the Family Support Institute. She is passionate about supporting families through the journey of special needs parenting and advocacy. She is a mom to a teen with Prader Willi Syndrome and lives in Kitsilano.

Aisha Kiana, founder of I Dream Library and The Center for Education Design™️. I Dream Library is an education initiative designing education curriculum rooted in kindness, inspired by love and the works of 2S/QTBIPOC activists, educators and storytellers across mediums and time.

Learn more about Aisha here: https://www.idreamlibrary.com/

Your registration also include light snacks, and refreshments.

Host or Publisher Kits Beach Coffee