My World
On this page I would like to pay homage to the many individuals and groups that have shaped my journey and world view as an artist and facilitator.
Some of these include: The Toronto District School Board, Sketch: Working Arts for Street Youth, Toronto Public Libraries, Transformative Learning Centre at University of Toronto, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Grassy Narrows First Nation, and Rainforest Action Network, The University of British Columbia, and Deer Crossing the Art Farm along with providing art pieces and installations for organizations such as the Wild Salmon Caravan, Sechelt Arts Festival and at events like IndigenEYEZ youth camps and the Art Crawl on the Sunshine Coast.
Transformative Learning Centre
I became an adult in Tkaronto, “The meeting place”. It was there that I found guidance and mentorship with Dr. Eimear O’Neill and Dr. Edmund O’Sullivan and the Transformative Learning Centre at OISE/University of Toronto.
Transformative learning is “a deep structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings and actions that dramatically and irreversibly alters our ways of being in the world” (O’Sullivan 2002) In the Centre, this involves developing a planetary and cosmological context for our learning, making spirituality pertinent to social movements and to our evolutionary development, actively honouring diversities of knowledge in terms of embodiment, of peoples, and particularly of women and indigenous peoples and, finally, including the natural and more-than-human world, as our teachers and indeed, as all our relations.
Eimear, my dear friend and colleague has been co-director of the TLC since 2004.
Transformative Learning Centre
I became an adult in Tkaronto, “The meeting place”. It was there that I found guidance and mentorship with Dr. Eimear O’Neill and Dr. Edmund O’Sullivan and the Transformative Learning Centre at OISE/University of Toronto.
Transformative learning is “a deep structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings and actions that dramatically and irreversibly alters our ways of being in the world” (O’Sullivan 2002) In the Centre, this involves developing a planetary and cosmological context for our learning, making spirituality pertinent to social movements and to our evolutionary development, actively honouring diversities of knowledge in terms of embodiment, of peoples, and particularly of women and indigenous peoples and, finally, including the natural and more-than-human world, as our teachers and indeed, as all our relations.
Eimear, my dear friend and colleague has been co-director of the TLC since 2004.
My work with IndigenEYEZ
I currently work with an organization called, IndigenEYEZ, co-founded by Kim Haxton of the Wasauksing First Nation in Ontario. Here we use land based learning and the creative arts to empower indigenous youth and adults through out the province known as British Columbia.
These camps are powerful. Youth leave feeling more confident, more motivated to learn, and more likely to make positive change in their communities.
