Pre-Conference Workshop Registration



CESBC 2025 Evaluation Conference | Unfolding the Evaluation Journey


When: November 21, 2025

Location: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3

Registration Overview

We're excited for you to join us! Registration for the CESBC 2025 Pre-Conference Workshop is now open.


This year's interactive workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Gladys Rowe (MSW), Indigenous Insights on Stories as Pathways: Arts-Based Reflection to Unfold Evaluation Journeys and takes place on Thursday Novembe 20, 2025, 10:00am - 4:00pm, at SFU Harbour Centre 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3.

Additional event registrations: 

Please see information for the one-day Conference registration here.

Workshop Details

This full-day workshop invites evaluators to pause, reflect, and reimagine their evaluation journeys through arts-based and storytelling practices. Drawing on Indigenous methodologies and relational accountability, participants will explore their own paths as evaluators, share stories of practice, and experiment with creative approaches to sensemaking and evaluation.

Together we will:

  • Map our evaluation journeys and reflect on key moments of learning and unlearning.
  • Explore storytelling and 4Rs (Respect, Responsibility, Reciprocity, Relationality) as guiding principles.
  • Engage in hands-on creative activities (like collage, poetry, playdoh, zine-making) to imagine new possibilities for evaluation.
  • Build connections and collective insights to carry forward into our work.

No arts experience is required — just openness to curiosity, creativity, and community. This workshop will provide space to slow down, connect, and cultivate new practices for relationally accountable evaluation.

Facilitator Introduction


Dr. Gladys Rowe is Swampy Cree from Fox Lake Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba and also holds relations with ancestors from Ireland, England, Norway, and Ukraine. Gladys’ aims to support Indigenous resurgence at individual, organizational, community, and systems levels. She is a Scholar, Filmmaker, Poet, Author, Facilitator, Researcher, and Evaluator. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to her work and loves to think inside the circle when it comes to transforming the futures we are living into. Gladys supports critical reflection, expression, insights, and knowledge mobilization within research and evaluation through storytelling and arts-based approaches including using poetry, photography, photo elicitation, film, collage, painting, and clay. She is the host of Indigenous Insights: An Evaluation Podcast – where she sits in conversation with Indigenous leaders across Turtle Island and beyond.

Price Details

    • CES Members*: $300
    • CES Non-Members: $400
    • Student**: $250

Note, lunch is included with your registration. 

*Members of CES and CESBC (If you are not a current member in our BC Chapter system, or a member of a different Chapter, please send CES Member Number, Expiry Date, City to bc@evaluationcanada.ca).

If you are currently not a CES member and would like to get a membership, go to JoinCES !

**Proof of current Student Status will be required at the registration description

Our DEI fund is available for pre-conference workshop registration. Please reach out to Conference Leads at CESBC.Conference@gmail.com.

Cancellation Policy: 50% refund one month before the event date. After that, only substitute names for your registration will be provided.

Accessibility Considerations 

We are committed to providing an accessible environment and space for everyone to be able to attend and benefit from the conference. If you have specific accessibility needs please do not hesitate to contact the CESBC Conference Leads at CESBC.Conference@gmail.com. Information about the event space can be found on their website: https://www.sfu.ca/fs/services/vancouver-services-catalogue.html


We are committed to inclusive participation in our conference activities. Please contact us any time at CESBC.Conference@gmail.com to let us know how we can support you!


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