Join us at this year’s winter quarter IDEAS Summit, featuring a presentation by Dr. Danielle Peers and Nathan Viktor Fawaz from the University of Alberta entitled “Embodied practices for values-aligned co-being.”  During the workshop, we will hear how we train to develop the skills, knowledges, instincts, and stamina necessary to stay with the hard work of equity.  Participants will be encouraged to meet in units or other small groups to discuss how to locally enact the subject matter and determine next steps within their unit.  

RSVP here. Refreshments and lunch will be provided for in-person participants.

Our schedule:

• 9:30 a.m.: Breakfast and Community Connections
• 10:00 a.m.: Welcome and Presentation (Zoom ends)
• 11:30 a.m.: Q&A
• Noon: Lunch and Planning Time (Zoom ends)
• 1 p.m.: Closing and Community Connections

Zoom link will be shared closer to the event.

Please note that photos/video will be taken at the event for marketing and documentary purposes. Attendees will be able to opt out. 

Presentation Abstract

In running, we don’t train to run a marathon, we train to create of our bodyminds somebody who can run a marathon (Jones, 2022). Likewise in equitizing justice, diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility (JEDIA) work; we don’t train to perfect static techniques of equitization, we train to develop the skills, knowledges, instincts, and stamina necessary to stay with the hard work of equity. We train-often in deeply embodied ways– to be able to imagine and practice emergent equitizing interventions within and beyond existing human structures of interaction. We train in order to align our actions with our intentions and with a shared investment in the common and just ideal that all humans are equally human – even (and especially) as what is known about the diversity of human expression expands beyond the horizon of our present imagination. This talk presupposes that equitizing work is less about JEDIA knowledges than what it is to embed an equitizing impulse in the fabric of an individual’s being, such that all doing is informed by a love of justice; and, to share that love through a form of pedagogy that invites selves and others to develop our own capacities toward individual and collective liberation.

Presenter Information

Danielle Peers (they/them) is a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Disability and Movement Cultures, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta. Danielle studies how movement cultures can be used to transmit and transform a community’s values, politics, and inequities. Mobilizing embodied disability justice approaches, Peers prioritizes deep, intersectional collaborations, in order to co-create knowledges and practices that reduce harm and create more accessible, affirming, and transformative movement cultures.

Nathan Viktor Fawaz (they/he/she) is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta. Nathan’s work orients itself around the question: how can we live together with a little less murder? Right now, they are working on developing tools and models that can support folks to train in times and spaces of relative peace in order to respond with clarity and kindness in times and spaces of overt conflict and dispute.