Join us for a free webinar.

Start time: 10:00am PST / 11:00am MTN / 1:00pm EST / 2:00pm ATL

This session disrupts traditional and colonial approaches to education by emphasizing the importance of embodied wisdom, personal narrative/storytelling, and relationship building when creating learning environments that aim to be equitable, trauma-informed, and transformative.

Participants will enjoy a first-hand account of my journey as a sexual violence prevention and well-being educator to explore the ways I have managed to break through the common barriers of fear and resistance that learners face when engaging with topics that require radical vulnerability, self-reflection, and accountability.

Through practices of heart-centered learning, this session engages educators in reimagining their relationship with themselves and others to enable the creation of learning spaces that are rooted in care and compassion rather than domination.

Drawing from emergent research in somatic therapy practices, trauma-informed approaches to education, and adult learning, this session provides innovative practices to facilitate transformative learning and cultural change within post-secondary settings and beyond.

Shiayli Toni (she/her) is an educator, speaker and facilitator who specializes in sexual violence prevention and well-being education: cultivating ways of connecting and relating to ourselves and others that nurture safer, healthier and more equitable communities. Shiayli completed her B.A. at the University of British Columbia, specializing in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice while playing on the UBC Women’s Ice Hockey team and working as a Student Educator at the UBC Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office. She currently works at Capilano University as the Sexual Violence Prevention and Well-Being Facilitator and provides relational, strength-based, intersectional, and trauma-informed education for CapU students, staff and faculty. Shiayli’s approach to education and facilitation centers curiosity, compassion and connection as the keys to transformational learning and meaningful social change.