{"id":16,"date":"2021-01-20T15:49:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T22:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kindnessproject\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2022-05-10T13:11:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T20:11:35","slug":"current-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kindnessproject\/current-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kindness in the classroom, research lab, and beyond.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Things we are working on:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. A Conflict Theatre event on microaggressions<\/li>\n
  2. Interuniversity funding for institutions to create conversations and engage in kindness<\/li>\n
  3. A working group that meets weekly<\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0A<\/i>\u00a02020 article about the Kindness Project here (September Bulletin, pages 28-29<\/span>): Super, L., Billings, L. , Martinusson, N., Singh, S., and von Aderkas, P. (2020). Navigating research and teaching in a time of COVID-19: How might we genuinely add kindness? CBA\/ABC Bulletin 53(2): 28-29.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.cba-abc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Bulletin_53_2.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Conference and workshop presentations: “Kindness Matters” (UBC Graduate Students in Teaching Mini Conference 2021, CTLT: https:\/\/gsit.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/<\/a>), “Kindness Workshop” (“Bryophytes, lichens, and northern ecosystems in a changing world”, BL2021 Conference:http:\/\/bl2021.org\/<\/a>), and “Inclusive Pedagogy” video on the Kindness Project (2.5 minutes) and Phytobiome Research Mentoring (2.5 minutes) for the NSF-funded Ecological Forecasting Initiative\u2019s (EFI) Research Coordination Network (EFI-RCN) Inclusive Pedagogy workshop: https:\/\/ecoforecast.org\/ecological-forecasting-initiative-2021-inclusive-pedagogy<\/a>\/<\/li>\n
  6. Working groups are growing (likely six now – stay tuned!): *1. Kindness environmental sustainability working group<\/strong> (connecting kindness to things like SDGs, addressing things like climate change, etc.) *2. Kindness mental health and wellbeing resources working group<\/strong> (mental health and resources to promote positive wellbeing) *3. Kindness culture and inclusion advocacy working group<\/strong> (kindness pedagogy; microaggressions; navigating how to have kind equity, diversity, inclusion; conflict management, and build a kind academic culture for all etc.) *4. Kindness communications, planning and funding working group<\/strong> (to include website; asks; promotion of project; strategic plans alignment; and asking for funding for things like workshops, pilot testing, etc.) *5. Kindness weekly working group<\/strong> (flexible who attends, but weekly [mostly] in person and\/or email; synthesizes across groups, publications; checking in on human being and human knowing; support for groups and also support for anyone who wants to join in; hub) 6. Kindness in ? working group<\/strong> (What do you want to see? Join us!),<\/li>\n
  7. Kindness Conversation Series (2022): February, April, May, and hopefully more! See here: https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kindnessproject\/kind-materials-videos\/<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Other offshoots – stay tuned! For example, kindness embedded TLEF application: <\/strong>principal PI Kshamta Hunter UBC: https:\/\/tlef.ubc.ca\/funded-proposals\/entry\/901\/<\/a> “Embedding Climate Education in Teacher Education Courses through a Novel Framework of Climate Kind Pedagogy”<\/li>\n
  9. Other offshoots – stay tuned!<\/strong> A 2022 article:<\/strong> von Aderkas, P. (2022) How to make kindness pedagogy work in large botany classes using multimodal teaching. CBA\/ABC Bulletin 55(1): 17-19. https:\/\/www.cba-abc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Bulletin_55_1.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Other offshoots – stay tuned! For example another kindness-related project (launched in spring 2022): <\/strong><\/strong>Nicole Fenton and colleagues, Academic Benevolence and Good Action project at UQAT\/Bienveillance Acad\u00e9mique et Bonne Action de l\u2019UQAT:\n

    The BA2 team,<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Nicole Fenton, Hsan Youssef Mehdaoui, Simon Dor, Vincent Poirier, Anne Beaulieu, Martha Roussel, Isabelle Rivest, Mohamed Meite, Beno\u00eet Plante, \u00c9lodie Bouchard, Miguel Montoro Girona, Lucie Coudert, Claude Boucher, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Ouellette<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  11. Other offshoots – stay tuned! Emotional Resilience monthly group<\/strong><\/li>\n
  12. More coming…What do you want to see?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Kindness in the classroom, research lab, and beyond. Things we are working on: A Conflict Theatre event on microaggressions Interuniversity funding for institutions to create conversations and engage in kindness A working group that meets weekly \u00a0A\u00a02020 article about the Kindness Project here (September Bulletin, pages 28-29): Super, L., Billings, L. , Martinusson, N., Singh, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66355,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kindnessproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kindnessproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kindnessproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kindnessproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kindnessproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":77,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kindnessproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kindnessproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kindnessproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}