CESBC 2025 Pre-Conference Workshop
Stories as Pathways: Arts-Based Reflection to Unfold Evaluation Journeys
faciliated by Dr. Gladys Rowe, Indigenous Insights
When: Thursday, November 20, 2024 | 10:00am - 4:00pm
Where: SFU Harbour Centre 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3
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 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 Details
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- Cancellation Policy: 50% refund one month before the event date. After that, only substitute names for your registration will be provided.
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