Méga séances

Kofi will draw on his work at CEE, where the heart of the initiative was a focus on reaching youth who could be labelled “hard to serve” and were facing significant barriers to employment, as well as his time as a student activist and his graduate studies on Canadian non-profits in Africa. He will provide his views on how to be a values-based leader, explore how values are critical to success in social change work, and consider the challenge of turning values into daily practice.

Kofi Hope is a Rhodes Scholar and Doctor of Philosophy in Politics. Starting in September 2018, he will be working as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Wellesley Institute, and as a Bousfield Distinguished Visitor in Planning at University of Toronto’s School of Urban Planning. Kofi is the Founding Executive Director of the CEE Centre for Young Black Professionals (CEE), a non-profit which creates economic opportunities for Black youth in Toronto.

 

Assessment is the most important aspect of the career development process. Everything stems from assessment and “formal” assessments leave much to be desired. In this session, participants will experience a variety of sure-fire “informal” (yes, they’re FREE!) assessment tools that are fun, engaging and out of the box. You’ll be so happy you came that you’ll want to cry!

Herky creates rich experiences for his clients by providing relevant and provocative content through a lens of humour, music, enthusiasm and authenticity. Participants will laugh, cry, they may leave, but they will never fall asleep!

 

This session provides an overview of the challenges urban Indigenous youth face across the continuum of education, training and employment. Indigenous youth are the fastest growing demographic in Canada and will serve as a viable source of skilled workers for the futre. Innovative, client-centered approaches rooted in cultural understanding are key to ensuring their transition to the labour market.

Shari St Peter is the Executive Director of NPAAMB – Niagara Peninsula Aboriginal Area Management Board, one of 18 ASETS agreement holders in Ontario. NPAAMB serves the employment and training needs of urban Indigenous youth in southern Ontario, offering service to youth ages 15-30 in five service centres.

 

Brandi Jonathan is Mohawk, turtle clan and lives on the Six Nations Reserve in Southern Ontario. She has worked in employment and training over the past 15 years and has been very successful in developing and coordinating various Indigenous youth programs. In 1999, she graduated with a BA from Trent University and in 2004 she graduated from Mohawk College’s Advanced Career Counsellor Certificate program.

Apprenez à aimer la théorie et faites l’apprentissage de nouvelles façons d’améliorer vos pratiques de développement de carrière! Au cours de cette méga séance, cinq théories et modèles contemporains tirés du nouveau recueil Theories and Models at Work, qui sera lancé au congrès Cannexus19, seront présentés. On mettra en évidence les aspects nouveaux, différents et pratiques de ces théories et modèles.

Écouteurs requis
Remarque : Certains panélistes s’exprimeront en anglais ou en français. Veuillez vous procurer des écouteurs à l’avance (à la salle plénière, au 3^e étage) pour profiter d’une interprétation simultanée.

Nancy Arthur (animatrice) est professeure à la Faculté d’éducation Werklund, de l’Université de Calgary. Conférencière d’honneur à Cannexus en 2015, Nancy étudie principalement le modèle de l’orientation professionnelle fondé sur la culture, la justice sociale et les transitions de carrière internationales.

 

Mary McMahon est chargée de cours principale honoraire à la Faculté d’éducation de l’Université du Queensland, en Australie. Elle est conceptrice et coauteure du cadre théorique des systèmes du développement de carrière.

 

 

Roberta Neault est présidente de Life Strategies Ltd. et présidente sortante de la section des Formateurs de conseillers de l’Association canadienne de counseling et de psychothérapie. En collaboration avec Nancy et Mary, elle a dirigé le recueil Theories and Models at Work.

 

France Picard is Professor, Département des fondements et pratiques en éducation at Université Laval, and Director of the Centre de recherche et d’intervention sur l’éducation à la vie au travail (CRIEVAT). France’s scientific investigations centre on the challenges faced by at-risk students when entering and integrating into higher education, through the lens of social justice.

 

Michel Turcotte est conseiller d’orientation, psychologue et étudiant au doctorat. Il est membre du Centre de recherche et d’intervention sur l’éducation et la vie au travail (CRIEVAT). Sa thèse porte sur l’orientation de carrière à distance.

 

 

Louis Cournoyer est professeur à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Ses recherches portent principalement sur les processus de prise de décisions relatives à la carrière pour les jeunes et les adultes, l’influence des relations sociales sur les projets de carrière et les pratiques en matière de développement de carrière professionnelle. Il agit comme conseiller d’orientation professionnelle depuis plus de 20 ans.

 

K-12 systems across Canada are not meeting the needs of all young people. Many of these underserved youth are missing education milestones and are not staying in school. Successfully engaging these youth can be a challenge, but several innovative programs have emerged to work with these young people. This panel will showcase bold young leaders whose programs move beyond the classroom to keep the next generation in school and open up future career pathways. Their fresh perspectives will be explored and panelists will offer their recommendations to address systemic challenges.

Annalie Bonda is an entrepreneur working at the helm of the charitable sector. Since joining The Remix Project as Executive Director, she initiated the expansion of programming nationally and brought in high-profile social enterprise opportunities for Remix’s graduates.

 

Tesfai Mengesha is part of senior leadership Success Beyond Limits, an organization based in the Jane and Finch community of Toronto, that re-imagines education and schools as sites of possibility. He is a Civic Action DiverseCity Fellow and a Maytree’s Public Policy School graduate.

 

Fabrice Vil is the co-founder and President of Pour 3 Points, an organization that transforms sports coaches so that they also play a role as life coaches for young athletes in underprivileged areas. He is a member of the Order of Excellence in Education as well as Ashoka Fellow.

 

Rebecca Darwent (Modératrice) is a dedicated civic leader and non-profit consultant with over10 years of community development experience. Her career has included roles at all levels such as front-line intervention, program and grants management, and public policy development.

 

The KAIROS Blanket Exercise is an interactive learning experience that builds awareness and understanding of our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada by having participants literally walk through situations that include pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization and resistance. Participants step onto blankets representing the land, and into the role of First Nations, Inuit and later Métis peoples. They are drawn into their roles by reading scrolls and carrying cards which ultimately determine their outcomes. Facilitators read a script and assume the role of Narrator and European settlers. By engaging on an emotional and intellectual level, the exercise contributes to a movement for reconciliation through education across the country.

Note: Participation is limited to 80 spots on a first-come, first-served basis. No pre-registration is available.