May 3, 9am
Re-imagining the campus: Place-making, ecology and campus life
With Sylvia Borda (KPU’s Artist-in-residence)
KPU Teaching, Learning, Scholarship & Research Symposium 2018
Surrey, BC
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May 12
Exploring the wilds within and without through poetry and music
With Heidi McCurdy
Learning Together Conference: The Intersubjective Emergent – Engagement and Synergy
SFU Surrey, BC
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May 12
Arts-based learning across the curriculum (Invited presentation)
Learning Together Conference: The Intersubjective Emergent – Engagement and Synergy
SFU Surrey, BC
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May 15, 7pm
Learning in place: The importance of outdoor education (Invited presentation)
Chilliwack Field Naturalists
Neighbourhood Learning Centre
46361 Yale Road, Chilliwack, BC
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June 6
Embodied and empowered learning communities
Teaching with pizzazz: Building communities in higher education
KPU Langley, BC
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June 21, 8:30am
Ecopoetics of the Amazon
The Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada
University of Victoria, BC
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June 21, 3pm
“Aristotle’s Lantern” poetry reading
The Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada
University of Victoria, BC
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October 18–21
Dancing with the leaves: Connecting to place through stories and art
With Margaret McKeon
The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication
Near Cranbrook, BC
More info here

PREVIOUS EVENTS – 2016

“The Human Ecosystem”
Hearth Earth: A Series of Conversations Focusing on Living in the World in Sustainable Ways
2–3:30pm, Feb. 24, 2016
University of Victoria
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“Scientific Ethics and Outdoor Education”
Three Minute Thesis Competition, SFU Finals
March 14, 2016
SFU
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“Curriculum Hidden: Contemplating More-than-human Ethics”
City of Surrey PechaKucha evening – sustainability theme
7pm, March 24, 2016
Surrey City Hall, Centre Stage
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“The ‘Unspeakables’ of Environmental Education: Overpopulation, Scientific Ethics, and the Pursuit of Happiness” panel
with Dave Chang and Jade Ho
Canadian Society for the Study of Education
May 28 – June 1, 2016
University of Calgary
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“Goethe’s ‘Delicate Empiricism’ in Today’s Science Classrooms”
with Heesoon Bai
Learning Together Conference: Multiculturalism Education in Canada
May 21, 2016
SFU (Surrey Campus)
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“Arts for Personal, Social, and Scientific Learning”
with Nicole Armos
Learning Together Conference: Multiculturalism Education in Canada
May 21, 2016
SFU (Surrey Campus)
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“Scientific Ethics and Outdoor Education”
Three Minute Thesis Competition, Faculty of Education heat
Tied for first place with Kim Nickel, and received the People’s Choice Award
February 17, 2016
SFU
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PREVIOUS EVENTS – 2015

“Creativity in Ecological Learning”
AEE Northwest Regional Conference
April 10 – 12, 2015
Stanwood, WA
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Premier of My Short Film: “Ordinary Beauty”
Active Pass Nature and Arts Festival
April 17 & 18, 2015
Agricultural Hall, Mayne Island, BC
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“The Ecology and Creativity of the Rain Forest”
Active Pass Nature and Arts Festival
April 18, 2015, 1-2:30pm
Mary Jeffreys Trail, Mayne Island, BC
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“Poetic Inquiry Into Nature’s Wisdom”
Active Pass Nature and Arts Festival
April 19, 2015, 2pm
Library, Mayne Island, BC
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Poetry Reading
Poetry and Seedbombing: Friends of The Grove and Cedar Bark Poets
April 25, 2015, 6:30-8:30pm
Newton Recreation Centre, Surrey, BC
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“Creative Teaching in Science: Getting Students to Embody Their Learning”
NorthWest Bio Conference
May 1 – 3, 2015
University of British Columbia
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“Ecological Education in a Time of Crisis”
with Dave Chang and Maureen Jack La-Croix
Learning Together Conference
May 23, 2015
Simon Fraser University (Surrey campus)
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“Poetry and Music in/as Research and Teaching”
with Dr. Michael Ling
Learning Together Conference
May 23, 2015
Simon Fraser University (Surrey campus)
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“Contemplating Contemplative Education” panel
with Bai, H., Chang, D., Eppert, C., Rasmussen, D. Falkenberg, T., & Orr, D.
Canadian Philosophy of Education Society
May 31 – June 3, 2015
University of Ottawa
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“Ecological Inquiry into Primary Tropical Rain Forest”
KPU Interdisciplinary Amazon Field School
June 2, 2015
Calanoa, Colombia

“A Creative Approach: Teaching Biology Labs Through Arts-based Learning”
Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE)
June 23 – 26, 2015
Boston University, MA
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“Transformative Learning in the Amazon Field School”
with Lucie Gagne and Connell Green
10th International Conference on Imagination and Education
July 2 – 4, 2015
SFU Harbour Center, Vancouver
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“Nature as a Poem: Poetic Inquiry in Romantic Science”
International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry
October 8 – 10
UBC
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“Science via the Senses: Embodied Cognition and Inquiry in Ecological Education”
with Dave Chang
Earth Matters Conference
October 15 – 17
Canmore, AB
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Poetry and Prose Reading
White Rock and Surrey Writers’ Club Literary Contest Awards Night
October 21
Semiahmoo Art and Recreation Centre
Surrey, BC
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“Creative Approaches to Teaching Ecology and Sustainability”
Association of Experiential Education International Conference
October 22 – 25
Portland, OR
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“The Amazon as Interdisciplinary Teacher”
with Lucie Gagne, Connell Green, Elina Gress, Lisa King, & Merry McMullen
5th Annual Sociology & Criminology Undergraduate Student Conference
November 6
KPU Surrey
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PREVIOUS EVENTS – 2014

“Poetry in the Garden”
Sep. 14, 2014
UBC Botanical Garden

Featured Presenter (poetry)
Southern Gulf Islands Art Council, Summer Art Show
July 5, 2014
Mayne Island, BC

“The Amazon River as a Living System”
KPU Interdisciplinary Amazon Field School
May 22, 2014
Facilitated on the Amazon River, Colombia

“Ecology and Mindfulness: Engaging the Senses in the Amazon Rain Forest” 
KPU Interdisciplinary Amazon Field School
May 19, 2014
Calanoa, Colombia