Events

Dates: Thursdays, October 30, November 6, 13, 20, 27 & December 4, 1-2:30 PM ET Cost: $100 (Zoom Meeting, camera and audio enabled) Maximum 25 participants. ‍ The JEDI Foundations Lab is designed for organizations who are ready to explore strategies specific to policies, processes, and culture, and discuss how to use inclusion principles to bring a transformative lens […]

What began as a blog in 2010 has grown into an environmental education charity that empowers youth to imagine and build a climate-resilient future. Through writing, workshops, and community gatherings, The Starfish Canada helps strengthen connections across the environmental sector, welcoming individuals from all disciplinary backgrounds. We envision a climate-resilient future shaped by all youth.

Date:  October 17 from 1 – 2:30 PM ET (Zoom Webinar) Cost: Free ‍ Organizations often start their Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) journey with policy change. But when it comes to implementing and maintaining momentum on JEDI initiatives, policy is just the tip of the iceberg. What really creates transformational JEDI change? Fostering an

This presentation explores the layered realities of environmental racism in Canada through a critical lens that connects colonisation, whiteness, and racialized geographies. Participants will engage with the concept of therapeutic landscapes—spaces often celebrated for healing and wellbeing—but interrogate who truly feels safe, welcome, and restored in these environments. We will examine how settler-colonial narratives have

Dates:  September 23, October 28 & November 25, 1-2:30 PM ET (Zoom Meeting) Cost: Free Although many ENGOs are making intentional efforts to hire more racialized and Indigenous staff, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) are currently in the minority in our sector. With BIPOC staff experiencing numerous workplace challenges which contribute to high turnover rates, we have heard a

The concept of Etuaptmumk, the Mi’kmaw term for Two-Eyed Seeing, has emerged as a promising framework for cross-cultural collaboration as non-Indigenous organizations increasingly seek to support Indigenous conservation leadership.  Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall coined this term to describe an approach of bringing together the best of multiple knowledge systems to work toward a common goal.