Research Findings: Racism in the Quebec Community Sector
February 20, 2025
This talk explored key insights from Diversité D’abord, a research project on racism in Quebec’s non-profit sector, with co-authors Emily Yee Clare and Kira Page.
Programs
Leading and Developing Inclusive Teams
AHSC Presents
Neurographic art as a tool for personal and professional reflection and action
Brown Bag Lunch
with Rosemary Reilly
The Strength it Takes: A Retreat for Women in Engineering
May 02, 2025
The Strength It Takes: A Retreat for Women in Engineering is a one-day gathering for women in engineering—past, present, and future—to reflect, connect, and recharge. Whether you’re a current engineer, a student, or have stepped away from the field, this retreat offers a space to explore shared experiences, gain clarity and validation, and find renewed inspiration to navigate your path in engineering.
Art of Hosting
May 13-15
The Art of Hosting is a powerful approach that harnesses group wisdom and self-organization. Rooted in the idea that people invest in what matters most, it uses dynamic conversations to empower participants to tackle their challenges. Let's explore--what grows when we reimagine our communities and organizations as spaces for human flourishing and belonging?
Past Programs
Anchoring Health Research in the Community-Based Participatory Research Experiences of People Living with a Disability
January 23, 2025
This talk will highlight Dr. Quilico's groundbreaking work on a peer-based physical activity program for individuals with traumatic brain injuries and his current research on technology-driven health interventions, including telehealth and robotic exoskeletons. Read More >>
Trapped by the screen: A dialectical approach to digital liberation
November 21, 2024
Explore the impacts of smartphone dependency on motivation, mental health, and community well-being. This seminar offers insights from the "Dopamine Reset Program" and strategies for building resilience against digital overuse. Join us for a dialogue on regaining balance in our digital lives. Read More >>
November 2, 2024
In a world striving for justice, effective Organizational Development (OD) is inherently an anti-oppressive practice, rooted in the vision of a future free from oppression. Read More >>
Case Study Methods: Communities of Practice in the Ontario Health System
October 24, 2024
Explore how Communities of Practice (CoPs) serve as dynamic intersections of scientific reasoning and practical knowledge, where inductive methods reveal organic double-loop learning and create scaffolding for collaborative growth. Read More >>
Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move
September 28 & 29, 2024
Drawing on the arts and contemplative traditions, Social Presencing Theater brings to the surface a clearer sense of the relationships, hidden dynamics, and emerging possibilities inherent in a team, organization or larger system. Read More >>
WEBINAR: Living Leading and Facilitating in the Grey Zone of Change
June 19, 2020
We are in a world facing numerous systems transitions. From hierarchies to networks and sociocracies. From office-based to a global and mobile workforce. From a human resource era to a co-dependent AI/VR/robotics era. From patriarchy to equality-based systems. We are in the midst of major shifts and transitions...and then along came #COVID-19. Read More >>
Roadmap to Leadership Development Training
November 9, 2019
Aspiring leaders today seek a value-based social and organizational framework which will better reflect fairness in relation to their time/contribution and integrity. This training begins this important conversation on how to promote and sustain value-based leadership in our society, communities and organizations. Read More >>
Living Leading and Facilitating in the Grey Zone of Change
June 20, 2019
The grey zone of change is the space in-between systems – between the from and to of change. Systems may be worldviews, philosophies, organization transformations, methodologies or social systems. How do we lead and facilitate transformations in this context? Read More >>
Human Interaction Learning Laboratory
May 26 - 31, 2019
This Human Interaction Learning Laboratory is a six-day (five night) residential program. Its unique experiential design consists of small and large group sessions whereby a semi-structured learning environment will assist you in developing your competencies in interpersonal and group dynamics. Read More >>
People Powered Innovation Labs
May 6 - 7, 2019
Despite dramatic innovations in technology and the world of physical objects, our results in creating healthy, effective and flourishing human systems, — businesses, NGO’s/non-profits, government agencies, networks and ecosystems — have been highly inconsistent. People Powered Innovation Labs is a 2-day introduction for leaders of business and social innovation, designers, facilitators, technologists and... anyone who has an innovation challenge or opportunity that would benefit from the collective genius of the people in the system. Read More >>
