On Friday September 30th and Saturday October 1st, the Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA) in partnership with Health Nexus, will be hosting a two day transformative learning event.

As we work with others to influence policies and practices and address the determinants of health, the need to build equitable partnerships and networks is essential. Learning how to incorporate intersectionality and anti-oppression in collaborative leadership practices can promote empowered work environments, dynamic partnerships, allowing us to more effectively support those we serve.

Who can benefit from participating in this Learning Institute?

• If you work in a leadership role in equity-based or anti-oppression-based non-for profit organizations, human rights, public health, social services, grassroots, or educational sectors.
• If you are trying to incorporate an intersectional social change or social justice framework in your organization, community practice, and among your collaborative partnerships and networks.
• If you want a dynamic training experience that will deepen your knowledge of intersectional anti-oppression frameworks and leadership practices.

** Please note that this course is intended for those who already have base knowledge and/or experience of any form of anti-oppression.**
What are the objectives of this Learning Institute?

1.  To provide a learning environment to explore intersectional anti-oppression and collaborative leadership practices, both successes and challenges.
2.  To strengthen your leadership skills in this area and to provide sustainability by establishing wider systems of support and networking opportunities.
3.  To provide learning resources that can be used in your organization, and in community practice that support collaborative leadership development and implementation.

Read the full program here!

See the program overview and speaker list here!

Themes: By participating in cohorts of 20-25, learners with supportive vibrant trainers will explore the following areas from an intersectional, health equity, anti-oppression, collaborative leadership lens:

v      Indigeneity, Decolonization, Reviewing the context of “Canadian Leadership”
v      Race, Racialization, and Resisting Racism
v      Women, Gender, and Demystifying Sexism
v      Dis/ability, Ableism and Redefining Accessibility
v      Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Resisting Heterosexism and Transphobia
v      Children, Youth, Seniors, Challenging Ageism through the Lifespan

The Learning Institute will enhance your anti-oppression learning in a reflexive, creative, and interactive manner, augmenting your skills, knowledge, and toolbox to strengthen your understandings and ability to actualize change.

For more information on this project, check our website at:  http://www.clip-lcp.org/events/
Contact: Roberta K. Timothy Ph.D.
OPHA CLiP Coordinator
Email: rtimothy@opha.on.ca

Le vendredi 30 septembre et le samedi 1er octobre, l’Association pour la santé publique de l’Ontario (OPHA), en partenariat avec Nexus Santé, organisera une activité d’apprentissage transformationnelle d’une durée de deux jours.

La création de partenariats et réseaux équitables est essentielle dans le cadre de notre travail avec d’autres intervenants pour influencer l’élaboration des pratiques et politiques et aborder les déterminants de la santé. L’apprentissage des méthodes visant à intégrer une approche intersectionnelle et anti-oppressive aux pratiques du leadership collaboratif peut favoriser la création de milieux de travail mieux outillés et de partenariats dynamiques, et nous permettre ainsi de mieux soutenir les gens auxquels nous offrons des services.

L’institut d’apprentissage vous en apprendra davantage sur l’approche anti-oppressive dans le cadre d’une démarche réflexive, créative et interactive, vous permettant ainsi d’étoffer vos compétences, vos connaissances et votre trousse d’outils afin de renforcer votre compréhension et votre capacité à apporter des changements.

N’oubliez pas de marquer sur votre calendrier les dates du vendredi 30 septembre et du samedi 1er octobre, de 8 h à 16 h 30, pour participer à cette occasion d’apprentissage unique. Nous réunirons des formateurs et panélistes chevronnés spécialistes des domaines de l’intersectionnalité, de l’anti-oppression et du leadership, et nous espérons que vous pourrez vous joindre à nous.

Speaker Bios
Roberta K. Timothy, Ph.D.
Project Coordinator,
Collaborative Leadership In Practice
Ontario Public Health Association
For over 20 years Roberta has worked utilizing intersectional, anti-oppression, anti-colonial approaches as a therapist, trainer, group facilitator, researcher, community organizer, professor, and clinical supervisor in community and educational settings, and in private practice. Roberta’s areas of interest include the practice, research, and knowledge translation of Anti-Oppression Psychotherapy, critical expressive arts therapy, trauma and intersectional and transgenerational violence; work culture and organizational change, Resistance Education, and Creative Resistance. Roberta holds a B.A. in Political Sciences, Sociology and International Justice and Human Rights; two Masters in Political Sciences and Counselling Psychology, and a Doctorate in Adult Education, Community Development, Women and Gender Studies. She recently completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in the Applied Psychology and Human Development department at the University of Toronto focusing on criminalization, HIV, and mental health in racialized communities and is the co-director of Continuing Healing Consultants.
More coming soon!

Students
We have student discounts for this event! Email RTimothy@opha.on.ca to see if you are eligible to attend this event at a discounted rate of $290.
Nous avons des tarifs réduits pour étudiants à cet événement! Pour voir si vous êtes admissible à vous inscrire avec ce tarif réduit, envoyez un courriel à RTimothy@opha.on.ca.

Bursary
We would like to make our Learning Institute as accessible as we can. If you would like to attend but can’t afford to do so, we encourage you to apply for a bursary to cover the registration cost. Complete this form and send it to Roberta Timothy atRTimothy@opha.on.ca by September 9th. We will tell you by September 16th whether or not we can grant your request. If we do grant you a bursary, you will need to tell us if you will accept it by September 20th.
Bursaries will depend on financial need, your previous, current or prospective participation in a collaborative initiative, your leadership in your organization or community, as well as on your previous/current/prospective work in relation to intersectionality and antioppression in collaborative leadership.
If you are applying for a bursary, please let us know on the Learning Institute registration form and complete the Bursary Application Form. Registration will be completed until we tell you whether or not we can grant your bursary request.