Join us for a weekend of learning, networking, and fun!
HRE LEADERSHIP RETREAT 2022
FRIDAY, March 11, 12:00pm-4:30pm
To register, visit ExBU:
HRE Leadership Retreat – ExperienceBU (brocku.ca)
Featuring guest speakers and presenters from across North America this retreat aims to drastically increase participants skillsets and knowledge bases surrounding equitable leadership and social justice leadership.
Additionally, connect with other Brock community members during our unique “Team Building Sessions” and develop a campus wide support network that will undoubtedly contribute to healthy cultures of change on campus.
Each session comes with CWC credits and participants who attend Four (4) hours worth of sessions will receive the HRE Leadership Retreat Certificate, at the end of year Brock Human Rights & Equity award ceremony.
Click here to download a PDF version of the full schedule with workshop descriptions.
Opening Address w/Sarah Jama
Thursday, March 10,11:30 PM-12:00PM
Sarah Jama is the Executive Director at the Disability Justice Network of Ontario (DJNO). She is a community organizer from Hamilton, ON with Cerebral Palsy who does work around combating anti black racism, policing, and housing insecurity. Through DJNO, she works to tackle systemic ableism by building up capacity in disabled organizers to challenge structures locally, provincially and nationally. In her past role as Senior Program Coordinator at the Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion, she ran a Civic Leadership Program which sought to help Black and racialized youth to understand their place in working inside and outside of institutions to affect structural change.
In this address, community organizer and co-founder of the Disability Justice Network of Ontario, Sarah Jama discussed the ways disabled people are treated through consumerist understandings in order to uphold existing oppressive structures in our society. Sarah will discuss the history of the disability justice movement in Canada and the U.S., the historical links between colonialism and ableism, unpacked themes around global capitalism and discussed how to build a world that truly uplifts the rights of people with disabilities.
To register visit ExBU: Opening Address w/Sarah Jama – ExperienceBU (brocku.ca)
Closing Address with Trecia McLennon
Friday, March 11, 6:00 PM- 7:30 PM
Trecia McLennon, MBA, CTDP (She/Her), is the Intercultural Communications Coordinator at Human Rights and Equity Office, and a Board member at Brock University. Trecia is the founder of Culturiousity which helps clients make the most of culture and stay curious to positively sustain people, profit and the planet.
In this address, Trecia McLennon will discuss her experience as a leader in the Niagara Region.
To register visit ExBU: HRE Retreat Closing Adress with Trecia Mclennon – ExperienceBU (brocku.ca)
Past Retreats
Calling in the Calling Out Culture with Loretta Ross
Saturday, March 13th, 2:00-3:15pm
To Watch: Watch it on our Facebook page! Click this text for the Event link
In 2019, Black feminist and reproductive rights activist Loretta Ross wrote in the New York Times, “Call-outs happen when people publicly shame each other online, at the office, in classrooms or anywhere humans have beef with one another. But I believe there are better ways of doing social justice work. Calling-in is simply a call-out done with love.”
On March 13th join award winning activist, author and international speaker Loretta Ross as she critically evaluates present day “call out” cultures and invites attendees to imagine a different method of doing social justice work by “calling in” instead of “calling out”.
GSV Leadership Retreat
Friday, March 12th, 12:00pm-4:00pm
Saturday, March 13, 11:00am-2:15pm
To register, visit ExBU: https://experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/178638
Featuring guest speakers and presenters from across North America this retreat aims to drastically increase participants skillsets and knowledge bases surrounding gender based violence prevention and social justice leadership.
Additionally, connect with other Brock community members during our unique “Team Building Sessions” and develop a campus wide support network that will undoubtedly contribute to healthy cultures of change on campus.
Each session comes with CWC credits and participants who attend Four (4) hours worth of sessions will receive the GSV Leadership Retreat Certificate, at the end of year Brock Human Rights & Equity award ceremony.
Click here to download a PDF version of the full schedule with workshop descriptions.