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"Art is a way of survival" - Yoko Ono #WomensArt

Today I am hosting a humanities bonanza b/c when despair feels monolithic, hope gets granular & we create, build, illuminate, and delight. Tonight: the world premiere of a student-led documentary on Shakesperience, a panel on experiential learning in the humanities, and a play.

As we wrap up 2024, I’m grateful to continue the conversations into 2025. Here’s a peek at January to June next year. I’m now booking into August and Fall 2025 for Hope circuits keynotes, retreats, visioning, policy consults, QA projects & more! It is a privilege to do this work

Wishing you a festive season of hot coffee, dog cuddles, laughter at a kitchen table, day time pyjamas, full hearts, plain faces, open souls. We need replenishment & renewal going into 2025: creative futures are imagined and then built by joy, pleasure, play, love, warmth. #hope

⁦Jessica B. Hill⁩ Front page! A pleasant surprise to see a sensible photo on page one as I collect the Saturday Globe from my doorstep. A promising 2025 for Stratford and Jessica B. Hill.

Today, we were happy to welcome FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education’s Dr. Bryan Dewsbury Bryan Dewsbury and Dr. Jessica Riddell to the office today for a podcast recording. Dr. Riddell’s newest book, Hope Circuits, aims to re-wire higher education toward human and ecological flourishing. Thanks for stopping by!

I wrote an article for Academica Top Ten about being in DC on inauguration day as a Canadian. I’m more convinced now that we need to model, teach, and champion “vigorous civility” on our campuses and in the public sphere: forum.academica.ca/forum/hope-cir…

Un-ironic unicorn is almost a perfect anagram. In my Rhetoric of Hope course we launched a defence of earnestness. It’s time we rehabilitated the very concepts we need. Joy. Love. Hope. Pleasure. Empathy. These terms have been bludgeoned by pale male stale for too long. No more.

“Any book that you pick up as a reader is a printed circuit for your own life to flow through.” —E. L. Doctorow buff.ly/2uOGzzY

Had a fabulous conversations with Gregor - leading the chief academic officers association in the US. Hope is a gritty praxis - and it’s something we can do together. open.spotify.com/episode/3ypb4A…

A highlight of #CUBA2025 was the presidents' panel on “Leading through disruption,” a timely and highly relevant discussion. Special thanks to university presidents Vivek Goel, Graham Carr, Joël Dickinson and Robert Summerby-Murray for sharing powerful insights on leadership in

Loved being in conversation with these wonderful, thoughtful higher ed leaders 🌟. Thanks #CUBA2025 for the invitation

We’re about to begin the closing plenary session with Dr. Jessica Riddell who wrote Hope Circuits. I read this book a year ago with the RGASC UTM educational developers’ pedagogical reading group.