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This workshop explores Kumashiro's four ways to conceptualize and work against oppression, guiding early childhood educators to locate their own work within his framework—an amalgam of anti-oppressive practices they may already be doing and those they may want to move towards—while making sense of these ideas within their professional practice and the BC Early Learning Framework.

Presenter: Ileana Neilson

Forest schools foster meaningful relationships with the land, build strong connections among children, family and educators and community. Forest Schools promote holistic development. In this workshop, you will learn how to bring authentic Scandinavian forest school education locally, the Danish forest school education values/practices. You will also be involved in hands-on materials and practical activities; participants could implement in their local" forest".

Presenter: Sarah LiuYou

This workshop engages early childhood educators, instructors, centre administrators, and policymakers in a critical, experimental exercise aimed at reimagining the Provincial Child Care Licensing Regulation (CCLR) in British Columbia through ecological and decolonial lenses. Participants will be invited to engage critically with the regulatory framework through a series of collective speculative writing exercises, exploring hypothetical scenarios and considering the implications of alternative formulations of the CCLR. While we acknowledge the CCLR's status as a binding legal document that resists facile revision, we intend to foster a space for generative reflection—one that moves beyond critique and envisions the regulatory framework in ways that more adequately respond to the pressing concerns of our time. Our collective reimagining exercise aims to function as a pedagogical tool that encourages participants to critically engage with and recontextualize the outdated regulations within the context of contemporary obligations to care generating a reorientation to honouring our roots and connections to land.

Presenters: Iris Berger & Nancy vanGroll

Educator Participants embark on a journey of self-discovery to better understand their inner critic, thoughts, feelings, and values. They learn to identify what they can control, recognize blind spots, set healthy boundaries, and develop self-compassion. Through reflective activities and somatic practices, attendees gain tools to respond to stress mindfully, connect with their core values, and enhance life control. The workshop fosters courage, balance, and patience by empowering individuals to deepen self-trust and awareness, reduce anxiety, and align with their passions and purpose. Outcomes include building self-efficacy, understanding needs, and embracing all aspects of oneself with love and compassion.

Presenter: Kate Toye

This is an interactive, experiential workshop that will deepen the audience’s knowledge and understanding of neurodiversity. Together, we’ll explore brain-based learning differences and learn strategies to create inclusive environments, foster acceptance, and advocate for the needs and strengths of neurodivergent individuals, ages 3 - 8. Designed specifically for ECEs, this workshop is suitable for both new and seasoned members of the profession, as well as administrators and policymakers, as it provides a safe, supportive environment to ask questions, share experiences, and think critically about inclusive strategies and practices. This workshop involves a slide deck presentation, with experiential activities throughout to demonstrate and reflect on brain-based differences, and break-out groups with case studies to directly apply what has been learned. Understanding Neurodiversity addresses the conference themes of justice, equity, diversity, inclusion and innovation through a neuroaffirming lens to nourish and empower children and ECEs across BC.

Presenter: Marlo Humiski

Weaving together our innovative approach to working with Chilliwack’s Dual Credit students, we will share our experiences of collaborating as a network to support these young students as they navigate entering the ECE profession. Through conversation, sharing project outcomes and personal accounts from students, project lead, instructors and community professionals, participants may gain insight on how to engage with Dual Credit programs and/or students in their communities.

Presenters: Monique Belanger, Monique Goerzen, Elizabeth McWilliams Hewitt

This workshop is designed to promote the well-being of ECE staff by fostering meaningful connections and enhancing effective communication. Participants will learn practical strategies for setting boundaries, managing stress, and creating an inclusive, supportive team environment that prevents conflicts. The session will also highlight the importance of advocacy for educators and children, emphasizing how leaders can address their needs, uphold ethical standards, cultivate a culture of support and empowerment, and foster strong thriving ECE communities.

Presenter: Pooja Kalsi

This interactive workshop is designed for early childhood educators who seek to create inclusive, culturally responsive environments that honor and celebrate the diversity of their children and families. Participants will explore practical strategies, resources and tools to integrate cultural diversity into their classroom practices. Develop an action plan to support implementing culturally responsive practice.

Presenter: Donna Skea

Discover how movement helps students and educators with emotional regulation and non-verbal communication. Learn to offer kinesthetic empathy by first engaging in the mind-body connection. Exercises in this workshop can be used with groups, individuals, or the self to support the integration of cognitive, emotional, social, and physical wellness. By experiencing interoception, participants will gain self-compassion to facilitate relating and connecting with others.

Presenter: Stefanie Tong

See C4 for description, this is a full day workshop

Story time is a magical time. A time to build connections that foster a love of learning, develop curiosities and allow educators an opportunity for observation, assessment and the introduction of strategies that help you get to know the way children think, feel and interact with the world around them. It can give you insight that helps identify ways in which you can bring out the greatness within each and every child.

In this workshop, you will learn how temperaments and learning styles can affect children’s experiences and how story time can help you use that knowledge to facilitate opportunities for every child’s growth and development. You will go away with tips and strategies for designing richly engaging, fun, and interactive story time experiences for your programs. And, you will be empowered and inspired to use these strategies outdoors to foster children’s connection to the natural environment.

Presenter: Corinne Moody

In this critically reflective workshop, the Early Learning Principles and the First Peoples Principles of Learning will be explored. Together, we will examine how the BC Early Learning Framework’s principles can guide and shape our practice. As well, we’ll determine how the principles can influence our image of the educator that we bring to our work, to the children, to their families and to other educators.

Presenter: Ewa Boss

In this workshop, participants will be introduced to an inclusive approach to supporting diverse behaviours in child care, including behaviours that challenge us. Facilitators Jordyn Zilkie and Eden Levinson will provide practical strategies and tools for understanding the function behind children’s behaviours and how we can best meet their needs. Participants will also learn best practices for language choices and re-framing our idea of behaviour management to focus on regulation versus compliance. This session will be interactive with group activities and moments of guided reflection. Participants will leave feeling equipped with strategies to support diverse behaviours in a childcare setting.

Presenters: Jordyn Zilkie, Eden Levinson