Month: April 2024

In early April, the FEELed Lab had the welcome opportunity to co-convene the next installation of the Storyteller’s Series run by UBCO’s Institute for Community Engaged Research. This session featured Cree scholar and UBCO Associate Professor Shawn Wilson, discussing his influential work on Research is Ceremony – what it is grounded in, and how and… Continue reading Storytelling, at the Periphery

Over the past year, Natalie Forssman and Astrida have been convening informal one-hour sessions where faculty from a wide range of Departments at UBCO share assignments, exercises and other pedagogies that they have used in their classrooms that invite students to engage “place” in a wider variety of ways: as colonized, as surprising, as laden… Continue reading Place-based Pedagogies: Sharing is Caring!

Neela Rader (they/them) is a sibling, artist, and community organizer living in the traditional, unceded, and currently occupied territories of the syilx people. They love David Bowie, playing the fiddle, and spending time with their sibling.  This FEELed Note is part of our occasonal series featuring outstanding feelz from undergraduate students. In the springtime of 2017,… Continue reading Dear Mill Creek, Sorry for Everything– P.S. I Love You

This FEELed Note is from Grace Henri who is a research affiliate leading  project “Nostalgia Forecast”, which investigates the complexity of eco-grief, and more specifically, how we mourn what we have not yet lost.  Every day we line up small rocks by the shoreline. Methodically we push them into the smooth sand, spread equally apart… Continue reading Returning to the Shore: the Power of Ritual

When I met Anne Bourne in person for the first time over a year ago, she told me about a kind of listening that she has learned from Pauline Oliveros: walk as if your feet were ears. A few weeks ago, the FEELed Lab was lucky to gather a group of students, faculty and community… Continue reading “Walk as if your feet were ears”

On March 9th, 2024, a group of 18 interdisciplinary research partners, faculty, students and members of intersectional community activist groups came together at the FEELed Lab for the workshop “Moving Through Dissonance: Making-sharing-healing Workshop for Global Justice”. Together, we made zines, shared a meal, and collaborated on posters, postcards and other materials to distribute in… Continue reading Moving Through Dissonance: Making-sharing-healing Workshop for Global Justice