Webinar series: conversation to unbox empathy, equity and diversity. in LAM

 

Forthcoming

Recent:

Empathy, Equity & Diversity Awareness Week,  November 13 - 19, 2022, Inaugural, Webinar Series 7, YouTube 

 Decolonizing with Humility and Empathy in Intercultural Community Services, Webinar Series 6, October Event: [proceedings @ YouTube]

When: October 27 at 3:00 eastern/2:00 central/1:00 mountain/12:00 pacific / 8pm UK local /  8pm GMT / 9pm SAT / 7am NZST (Fri): 

 

What: Decolonizing with Humility and Empathy in Intercultural Community Services (Libraries, Archives, Museums, community agencies, etc.

.  Summary: Starting a Conversation on Approaches to Decolonize Intercultural Services:  from mastery to accountability to shifting power imbalance.

Outcome: Awareness to reduce/remove barriers, achieve greater understanding of community needs, and facilitate dissemination of empathy, equity and diversity issues/best practice/lessons learnt.

Facilitate the webinar (MC role): Michael Skaljin, is Project - Stakeholder Engagement, Canadian Multifaith Federation; has served as Manager, Policy and Planning & Community Development Officer, City Of Toronto; Executive Director,  Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition, Toronto.

Guest speakers:

• Dr. Spencer Lilley,  Associate Professor, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ)
• Camille Callison, Tahltan Nation member, is the University Librarian at the University of the Fraser Valley, BC, (Canada)
• Dr. Hannah Ishmael,  Collections and Research Manager at Black Cultural Archives, London (UK) 

Panelists:

• Brandie Macdonald, Senior Director of Decolonizing Initiatives, Museum of Us, San Diego, CA. (USA)
  
• Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, Museum Director, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL. (USA)
• Laurel Parson, Archivist, General Synod Archives,  Anglican Church of Canada, Toronto (Canada)
• Dr. Sona Kazemi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of English, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (USA). See also: FULL DESCRIPTION

Event's full details and a link to Register:  https://Conversation_to_Decolonize.eventbrite.ca

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• 17 Aug Wed., 6 PM EST (18 August at 10.00am NZST; 18 Aug. 12 am CEST): Inter-cultural and Hol(y)stic Competencies, Training Seminar,. Webinar Series 5,  Watch the recording at Youtube
• Guest Speaker: Mark Berkson, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Religion Hamline University, St. Paul, MN,  [see :Cultural Literacy and Religions of the World - YouTube ]
• Panelist 
• Prayer Space established in the Dunedin City Library by  Bernie Hawke,  Library Manage, Dunedin Public Libraries,  Dunedin, New Zealand.
• Interfaith Prayer, Mindfulness, and Meditation Space James Branch Cabell Library, by Kelly Gotschalk,  Director of Development and Major Gifts at VCU Librarie 
  
• Lasallian libraries: prayer and intercultural dialogue, the Lasallian educational mission. by Anna Cascone,  Librarian, Generalate of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Roma, Italia.

• Religious and Spiritual Spaces in Academic Libraries, by Christina Riehman-Murphy, Open & Affordable Educational Resources Librarian, Penn State Libraries; and Emily Mross, Business Librarian, Penn State Harrisburg

Workshop: 

• Multicultural, Multifaith Literacy, based on interests and needs (with group discussion about skills and  knowledge).

This  workshop (set in New Norm and on-going social/digital divide) will be an opportunity for a group discussion & conversation on:

• how an understanding of Inclusiveness works in bridging the secular and sacred divide  - (Application of Five laws: resource/space is for use by everyone)
• how Diversity is accommodated in multicultural work space, e.g., in-reach or outreach in a Hol(y)stic manner (every seeker his/her resource/space; every resource/space its seeker)
• how organizations can improve their Equity practices  (to save the energies and time of every seeker)
• how Accessibility and digital divide has been a challenge, esp in health and wellness (seeking a resource/space  for solace, peace and harmony - -by a living organism - -  is a matter of human rights)  See also: FULL DESCRIPTION  

• July 20, 1:00 PM (EST)  Staff Health/Wellbeing Boosts Productivity. Webinar Series 4 – Watch the recording at YouTube
• Guest Speaker : Imam Michael Abdur Rashid Taylor: Regional Chaplain, Ontario Correctional Service Canada. Michael has held varied positions including Manager of Spiritual and Religious Care at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Currently, his consultant work includes Diversity, Religious Accommodation and Healing Approaches. He is Managing Director of Rashid Taylor Consultants and Director of Islamic Chaplaincy Services Canada. He was an honorary witness to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. [See: Practising Spirituality in the Workplace. OMNI Newsletter, Ontario Multifaith News & Information for Spiritual & Religious Care, Fall 1998, :3:1]
• Panelist
• Danielle' McGhee, Division Manager, Austin History Center,
• Kiyomi Deards, University Libraries Faculty Chair, Subject Librarian for Chemistry, Biochemistry, Forensic Science, Physics & Astronomy, and Water  M.S. L.I.S., Associate Professor  University Libraries, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, NE. More details at Eventbrite

• June 20, 2022 11:30 EST:  CEEED Webinar Series 3: The Many Meanings of Mindfulness, by Dr. Ellen Choi,   |  Mindfulness in a Time of Turbulence in Libraries, Archives, Museums (LAM), by Stephen Abram. Watch the recording @ YouTube
• January, 27th, NZST, 2022: unbox empathy, equity and diversity in Libraries, Archives, Museums (LAM) CEEED Webinar Series 2. Watch the recording at YouTube

• January, 5th, EST., 2022: unbox empathy, equity and diversity in Libraries, Archives, Museums (LAM). CEEED Webinar Series 1. Watch the recording at YouTube