Facilitator: Amy Perrault
Notetaker: Zack Lee

1. Review & Reflections of the Pecha Kucha Presentation

Thoughts About the Event

• Fun event, speakers came from diverse backgrounds
• Some presentations were a bit problematic:
  • students on exchange
  • previous exchange students became mentors
• Need to have time to unpack for discussions
• Audience was very diverse

Team Presentation

• Surprise that people participated and responded at both the pecha kucha night and at the all-staff meeting
• Notice more facial responses
• CTLT does not have a lot of opportunities to ask bigger questions or gain understanding of issues
• Audience member at the Pecha Kucha night noted the presentation’s use of space and breaking of roles
• CTLT staff member wanted CTLT to do something similar with things we’re thinking about or are already doing

2. Ideas to help promote the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Event on 18 SEP 2013

• Presentation by Rick Ouellet during the CTLT all-staff meeting (March 27, 2013) did not give new information that wasn’t previously shared
• It was good to emphasize the symbolism of UBC’s decision to suspend most classes on 18 SEP 2013
• Do students know the symbolism of the day of suspended class?
• Repetition of the information, history is important. Helps things to sink in.
• CTLT Senior Management is considering organizing a more than 1 hour session to help CTLT staff come to a greater understanding of the significant of the TRC.
  • Maybe the Intercultural Working Group can design the session?

Amy typed up and printed out the responses from the CTLT all-staff meeting regarding the question: “What is CTLT’s role in the TRC event?” We then put them into three groups, which you can see below:

We had some ideas on how we can move forward as you can see from the image below:

Timeline for Work

There was a focus on sharing the small things CTLT staff can do right now and bigger actions we can plan ahead for. For the next all-staff meeting (24 APR 2013), we suggested to announce the following:

1. Keep the date 18 SEP 2013. Ask people to set it in their calendars, see how that date is going to affect certain deadlines, if possible move due dates, etc.
2. Add Musqueam Territory to our email address signatures.
3. Share that there will be more plans coming in a few months.

A few of the suggestions for future plans were developing an infographic, tagging related work with something like #trc, how can we share stores.

What are the other ways we can engage people in the history and importance of the residential schools and the work of the truth and reconciliation commission?

3. Next Meeting

Time & Date: 2:00PM – 3:00PM, Thursday, May 23, 2013
Place: CTLT Resource Room, IKBLC
Facilitator: Zack Lee
Notetaker: TBD