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Nurturing Resilience Through a Strong Community   Michael Ungar
Throughout this fast-paced, story-filled presentation, Dr. Ungar will use examples from his work with individuals and families facing challenges big and small, including struggles with education and literacy. He’ll explore the many ways people experience resilience, along with a dozen of the most important factors that contribute to an individual’s capacity to cope with adversity that depend on the resources provided by their communities. Based on his research and community work around the work, Dr. Ungar will show that resilience is much more than our personal capacity to overcome life’s challenges. It is instead a reflection of how well individuals, families, employers, governments and communities work together to create opportunities for people to navigate their way to the resources they need for well-being while making those resources available in ways that people experience as meaningful. His work suggests the need for a culturally sensitive interpretation of what resilience means to people from diverse backgrounds. Dr. Ungar will end with ideas for how to make resilience-promoting resources more available and accessible to everyone.

Michael Ungar, Ph.D. is a Family Therapist and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University where he holds a national Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience. With over $10M in funded research, Dr. Ungar’s clinical work and research spans more than a dozen low, middle, and high-income countries, with much of that work focused on the resilience of children and families, and adult populations experiencing mental health challenges. Dr. Ungar has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the subject of resilience and is the author of 16 books for mental health professionals, researchers and parents. These include Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success, a book for adults experiencing stress at work and at home, Working with Children and Youth With Complex Needs, a book for professionals, and I Still Love You: Nine Things Troubled Kids Need From Their Parents, an inspiring story of family resilience written for caregivers and educators. His blog, Nurturing Resilience, can be read on Psychology Today’s website.

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Enhancing Equity Through Access to Literacy Programs   Wanda Thomas Bernard
This webinar will be of interest to learners, staff, and teachers of adult literacy programs. It will focus on issues of equity and how literacy programs can engage learners. The presentation will also help those responsible for program development discover ways to excite and lead learners in nontraditional settings. Using evidence from research with adult learners and other research, Senator Bernard will share examples of best practices to work with literacy as an equalizer for those who experience marginalization.

Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard has been an adult educator for over thirty years and have been actively engaged in adult literacy initiatives for the past six years. As a Senator, she works to ensure inclusion and equity especially for marginalized citizens. Advancing literacy to all Nova Scotians is a passion. She is Interim President of the East Preston Empowerment Academy.

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Title of webinar TBA   Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe
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Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is a multi-award-winning psychology and education instructor who specializes in resiliency, navigating stress and change, and personal wellness in the workplace. Described as transformational, engaging, and thought-provoking, Hanley-Dafoe’s keynotes provide practical strategies, grounded in global research and case studies, that help foster resiliency within ourselves and others. As the senior educational developer for the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Trent University, Hanley-Dafoe focuses on providing professional development for the teaching community and cultivating student engagement. She is committed to finding innovative solutions for creating positive learning relationships and environments for both students and teachers. Hanley-Dafoe has also been a psychology instructor and researcher at Trent for more than 13 years. Hanley-Dafoe’s work is inspired by her interest in resiliency and wellness including the intersections of stress, optimal challenge, navigating change, goal-setting, and personal alignment.