Workshops are an opportunity to take a deeper dive into emerging evaluation topics to advance your knowledge and skills. Different topics and speakers are featured each year.
Workshop Overview
Stories as Pathways: Arts-Based Reflection to Unfold Evaluation Journeys
Speaker: Dr. Gladys Rowe (MSW)
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025, 10am-4pm
Location: SFU Harbour Centre 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3
Description
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 Bio
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.
Registration
Price Details
CES Members*: $300
*If you are not a current member in our BC Chapter system, or are member of a different Chapter, please send your 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 !
CES Non-Members: $400
Student**: $250
**Proof of current Student Status will be required at the registration description
Note: Lunch is included with your registration.
Cancellation Policy: 50% refund one month before the event date. After that, only substitute names for your registration will be provided.
Funding Support: Our DEI fund is available to support the cost of pre-conference workshop registration.
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 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